Herald Square stabbing: Cops cuff panhandler who allegedly attacked senior in subway station

38-year-old David Trotman was arrested for allegedly stabbing a senior in a Midtown subway station.

Photo by Dean Moses

Midtown cops cuffed on Monday an apparent panhandler allegedly responsible for stabbing a senior in the Herald Square subway station after he was caught assaulting another passenger, police said.

Police originally sought 38-year-old David Trotman after he was accused of stabbing 76-year-old Iqbal Ahmed in the torso inside the station at around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 13 after the senior refused to give him money.

Ahmed is currently recovering at Bellevue Hospital.

Police reported that they caught up with Trotman at around 3 p.m. Monday on Times Square after he purportedly punched a 42-year-old man aboard a northbound A train. He was charged with assault for this attack.

Trotman has a history of prior arrests and is known to police, NYPD sources said. He was escorted out of Transit District 1 by detectives just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning where he rambled incoherently when asked what happened by reporters.

โ€œWhite people are ignorant people, they suck dโ€”ck in their sleep, thatโ€™s what happened,โ€ Trotman said they belligerently.

Trotman is charged with felony assault for his attack onย Ahmed.ย 

A GoFundMe has been set up to aid Ahmed.

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