Detectives arrest suspect for fatally stabbing man, 40, in Manhattan subway station: police

A 24-year-old man was arrested for fatally stabbing a popular musician and fashionista during a confrontation at a Manhattan subway station, police said Saturday.

Diego Figueroa-Hepner faces murder and weapons charges in the deadly attack on Johnny Medina, 40, near the turnstiles of the 175th Street subway station in Washington Heights around 5:55 p.m. Friday, officials said. indicated the police.

The two men knew each other, police sources said. The murder, according to police, began as a “dispute that escalated.”

Witnesses said they saw the two men arguing near the restrooms at nearby J. Hood Wright Park before the two entered the station.

When they reached the mezzanine, Figueroa-Hepner brandished a knife and lunged at Medina, violently stabbing him several times in the chest and neck, police said.

Paramedics rushed the victim in cardiac arrest to Harlem Hospital, they said, but he could not be saved.

During the fight, Figueroa-Hepner suffered a deep cut to his leg, police sources said. When he showed up at a nearby hospital for treatment, doctors called the police, who took him for questioning.

Medina was a popular musician and fashion enthusiast known as “J McFly” in the community, his friend Alberto Frozani said.

“He was a nice boy. He loved fashion and made music,” said Frozani, 50. “He was a designer, a real fashionista.”

Frozani said he was shocked when paramedics carried his dying friend out of the subway station and into an ambulance.

“I saw the ambulance arrive to evacuate him. It was terrible,” he said. “People don’t value life anymore.”