Woman fatally knifes thug in subway attack, then flees on F train(NY)

New York Daily News ^ | 25 December, 2009 | Kerry Burke and John Lauinger

[marktwain]

Several thugs tried to drag a woman off a Queens subway train Thursday night, but she fought back and fatally stabbed one of her tormenters before fleeing on another train, police said.

The large group of men - perhaps as many as eight - surrounded the woman outside a chicken restaurant above the 21st St.-Queensbridge station about 9 p.m., police and a witness said.

The harassment, which may have included unwanted sexual advances toward the woman and grabbing, continued as she entered the subway station.

The woman broke free from the men and frantically ran down to the platform and hopped on an F train, with the thugs right behind.

"They tried to physically drag her off the train, but she fights back," one cop said.

The struggle continued as the group pulled her off the train and dragged her up the stairs to the mezzanine level.

At one point, the woman stabbed one of her attackers - identified by family as Thomas Winston, 29 - multiple times in the chest.

[marktwain]

I have been a proponent of knives for defense of women when they cannot get gun permits, for some time.

[org.whodat]

Way to go lady!!!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Eight to One and she fought them off!! Wow. Poor woman.

[Vendome]

Flees on the “F” train. That’s too much and target rich.

[Paperpusher]

One police source said investigators suspect the woman was acting in self-defense.

Ya think!

[ASA Vet]

But Thomas was such a good boy, who was turning his life around. There was no reason for this evil women to take his life.

[COBOL2Java]

...she fought back and fatally stabbed one of her tormenters before fleeing on another train, police said.

Thank goodness she got away!

Defending herself - clearly a right-winger! Doesn't she know she should have called 911 and waited for the police? She'll be a fugitive from the law now...

Hopefully the cops won't find her.

[driftdiver]

The fact they only think that tells you how anti self-defense they are.

[bgill]

Strange turn of phrases in that article. Had to check if it was really NYC, USA.

Of course, at the end it got all kumbayah with the ‘but he was killed on Christmas and now his poor baby doesn’t have a daddy’ horse hockey.

[boycott]

I like how the article called them what they are — thugs.

Thomas Winston won’t be acting like a thug anymore.

[oh8eleven]

What a strangely written article. They constantly refer to the dead perp in the present tense, plus one of the cops sounds like he's a sports announcer, "They tried to physically drag her off the train, but she fights back."

But they saved the best for last - "One police source said investigators suspect the woman was acting in self-defense." LOL - ya' think?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

At one point, the woman stabbed one of her attackers - identified by family as Thomas Winston, 29 - multiple times in the chest.

Mrs. Winston: "Why'd they kill my baby! He was such a good boy!"

[tubebender]

Give this gutsy woman the civilian equivalent of the Medal of Honor. I wish she could have neutered the rest of them at the same time...

[Enten]

You forgot.....he was also thinking about becoming a priest.

[shankbear]

Amish no doubt.....

[seoul62]

That area is major rough.

[stockpirate]

My favorite police quote came from CA some years ago. Police found two people dead in a swimming pool with their hands tied behind their backs, their feet bound and shot several times in the chest, here’s the money qoute. “Police suspect foul play.”

[grjr21]

At one point, the woman stabbed one of her attackers - identified by family as Thomas Winston, 29

No way that I would ever claim a scumbag like him as a relative

[exit82]

"One police source said investigators suspect the woman was acting in self-defense."

NYPD--crack police force they are.

[tubebender]

Did you click on the hot link for his aunt Diane Greenspan who is a writer?