Police said Tuesday that an 18-year-old straphanger was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn subway train after his friend pulled the emergency brake as “a stupid kid prank,” which made the knife-wielding attacker angry.<\/p>\n

Thursday night around 11:30 p.m., Isaiah Collazo of Staten Island was on a northbound D train near the Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street Station when his friend pulled the brake on the rail car as a joke.<\/p>\n

That’s when Mark Smith, 25, who turned himself in to police on Tuesday, got into a fight with Collazo. He is then said to have pulled out a knife and stabbed the teen in the stomach.<\/p>\n

So, Collazo and his friends are on the platform, said James Essig<\/a>, Chief of Detectives for the NYPD. “They finally get on the train when it pulls in at 11:25.”<\/p>\n

“The thing is pulled by his friend. This guy walks up to him and asks, “Why the hell did you do that?” Essig called the brake a “prank,” which usually makes riders wait longer. “Someone pulls out a knife, hits him, and stabs him.”<\/p>\n

Police say that Smith then ran away from the station.<\/p>\n

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Collazo was taken to the New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Essig said that Smith from Brooklyn turned himself in and asked for a lawyer. He also said that even though the stabbing itself wasn’t caught on camera, “we have the video after the stabbing.”<\/p>\n

The chief said that Smith has been arrested for robbery in 2020, assault in 2019 and another assault in 2016.<\/p>\n

Essig said that witnesses, including some of Collazo’s friends, said that Smith was the one who hurt him.<\/p>\n

Essig said that the reason was that it was a stupid kid’s joke.<\/p>\n

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He said that one of Collazzo’s friends was also stabbed but wasn’t hurt too badly.<\/p>\n

According to NYPD<\/a> data, there have been 578 criminal complaints in the city’s transit system so far this year, compared to 621 in the same time period last year. This is a drop of nearly 7% from last year.<\/p>\n

Statistics show that complaints about six major crimes have gone up by more than 25% in the last month. This includes a nearly 60% rise in grand thefts, which went up from 57 in the same month in 2022 to 91 so far this year.<\/p>\n

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