The NYPD has arrested and charged a Brooklyn man with second-degree murder Tuesday in the stabbing death of a city bus driver.
Authorities arrested Horace Moore, 20, after questioning him in the 81st Precinct station house in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Associated Press, Moore confessed to the stabbing, which happened around noon Monday on the B46 bus on Gates Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Witnesses also identified Moore in a line-up.
Moore allegedly boarded the bus and tried to swipe an invalid MetroCard. The driver, Edwin Thomas, allowed Moore to board, but the two soon began arguing when the passenger asked for a free transfer.
Thomas, 46, allegedly refused to give Moore one, since the man had not paid. Police say Moore then punched and stabbed Thomas in the head and stomach before running off.
Thomas was taken to Woodhull Medical Center where he died. He had worked as a bus driver for seven years.
Thomas is the first bus driver to be killed on the job since 1981.
In September, the MTA revealed the B46 route had the most fare evaders of any route in the city – with an average of 4,000 people a week boarding without paying.
His death is leading for calls for more protections for drivers – including more surveillance cameras and an increased police presence on city buses.
(Source: NY1)
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4,000 evaders!! that’s $8,000 a week!! do the math – that’s over $400,000 a year – no wonder the MTA needs a price hike. We the taxpayers, MTA payers, will have to continue paying towards the same cause in an additional way
The re-institution of the death penalty in New York State would have prevented this atrocity.
$400,000 dollars a year is less than nothing to the MTA.
for just 1 bus route its plenty