One NYPD cop was stabbed and another slashed by an unhinged knife-wielding man inside a Bronx subway station early Wednesday, cops said.
The two transit officers were responding to a 911 call of a man with a knife on the northbound No. 5 train platform at Pelham Parkway around 2:30 a.m. when the 40-year-old menace – later identified as Howard Clunis – started to swing the blade at them without provocation, authorities said.
Clunis stabbed a female cop in the arm, and slashed a male officer on the chin, police said.
By the afternoon, Clunis – who lives about a mile from the station in the Laconia neighborhood – was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, authorities said.
The knife he allegedly used during the attack was also recovered.
Both officers were taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition.
Photos posted on X hours later show Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry visiting the injured cops at the hospital.
“At Jacobi Hospital early this morning with our @NYPDTransit members who were slashed trying to apprehend an unhinged perp who was menacing straphangers with a knife on a Bronx subway platform,” the union captioned the post. “Thankful that both cops will be OK.”
It is not immediately clear whether Clunis has any prior arrests.
