Three people were stabbed in two separate incidents on the subway system

In the latest violence to hit Los Angeles County’s transit system, a man slashed a woman’s arm with a gun at a subway station on Monday, just hours after two people were stabbed in a brawl on a bus in Glendale, officials said the authorities with.

All three victims are expected to survive, but the bloodshed highlights a wave of violence aboard Metro buses and trains in recent weeks, including a murder at a Studio City train station and a driver being killed on a bus full of Passenger was stabbed.

According to a Metro spokesman, a fight broke out between a group of passengers on board a Metro bus around 7 p.m. on Monday. The driver stopped the bus on Los Feliz Road at South Central Avenue in Glendale, where a man and three teenagers got out and continued arguing on the road, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Two of the four were stabbed, Metro authorities said. At first, the teens fled, but two of them were caught and arrested after the Sheriff’s Department and the Glendale Police Department responded. According to the Sheriff’s Department, the man who was stabbed in the arm was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

According to authorities, one of the arrested teens was stabbed in the leg. He was taken to a hospital and was stable, but it is unclear how he was injured, the sheriff’s department said. As of Tuesday afternoon, authorities were still searching for the third teenager.

Just hours later, a man attacked a woman in an elevator at the Vermont/Athens subway station next to the 105 Freeway, according to the sheriff’s department.

The woman was stabbed in the arm shortly before 9 p.m. and the attacker boarded a westbound train toward Hawthorne/Lennox Station, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman told television station KTLA. The woman was taken to a hospital, treated and released, authorities said.

Anyone with information about either incident can contact the Sheriff’s Department at (323) 563-5000.

Although several attacks on subway passengers have been in the news recently, the agency says fewer crimes are being reported per passenger. Just over 5 crimes per 1 million boardings were reported in March, about 28% fewer than February and 41% fewer than March 2023, according to Metro.

The total number of subway bus and train boardings was 25.8 million in March 2024.

In recent weeks, subway passengers and riders have been attacked, stabbed and, in one case, killed as they attempted to use the transit system.

On April 13, a 70-year-old man was stabbed by another passenger on a Metro bus in the 2700 block of Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake around 1:30 a.m. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the man was stabbed during an argument and was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

A few hours later, a man stabbed a Metro bus driver in Willowbrook as passengers watched the driver beg for help. According to the Sheriff’s Department, the attacker fled the scene.

The driver was able to get off the bus and a good Samaritan picked him up and took him to Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital. He was later released, according to a Metro spokesman.

A man fatally slit a 66-year-old woman’s throat as she got off a subway train in Studio City on April 22. Elliot Tramel Nowden was arrested shortly after attacking Mirna Soza, who died of her injuries in a hospital. according to the sheriff’s department.

“She was stabbed without provocation by a man who grabbed the bag she was holding,” said Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said during a press conference last month. The district attorney said prosecutors also made a special allegation that the attack occurred during a robbery. If convicted of all charges, Nowden faces life in prison without parole.

On the same day that Gascón’s office announced charges against Nowden, a Metro official called on the Metro board to declare a state of emergency to expedite the construction of protective barriers for bus riders.

Times staff writer Rachel Uranga contributed to this report.