MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) — Police have made an arrest in the fatal stabbing of a man at a Bronx subway station Thursday.
Saquan Lemons, 27, of the Bronx, was arrested Saturday afternoon on charges including murder, involuntary manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
The victim, Charles Moore, 38, was getting off a northbound No. 4 train as it arrived at the 176th Street station shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday when he was stabbed multiple times in the back and chest .
Moore collapsed on the platform and was rushed to St. Barnabas, where he later died, becoming the seventh person to die on the New York transit system this year, and the second fatal subway stabbing in less than a week.
Friends and family say Moore’s world revolved around her 8-year-old daughter, Charlie.
“She was his life. She was Charles’ life; if there’s one thing I can say about my son, he was a very good father. A better father than we had,” said Moore’s mother, Frances Vanterpool.
On Saturday, friends toasted him, cried and lit candles for a second night, but this time they knew a suspect was in custody.
Police did not say how they found Lemons, but the MTA’s security chief thanked him in a statement for using MTA cameras to make the quick arrest.
Police are still investigating whether it was a random attack. Moore’s mother says it was meant to be.
“It was unprovoked, no words were spoken between that man and my son. The man stabbed my son in the back, multiple times,” she said.
While the arrest is a relief to family and friends who were honoring Moore, it doesn’t make the loss any less painful.
“I mean, he’s been arrested, that’s all. But he’s not coming back my friend,” said Darrel Colquhoun.
Colquhoun was actually on the phone with Moore minutes before he was attacked, while Moore was returning home from work at Citi Field.
“Everything was normal, we were just talking about my son’s basketball,” Colquhoun said.
They were planning to hang out before Moore spent the weekend with her little girl.
Moore’s mother says a murder conviction is all she wants at this point: her family has suffered an unimaginable loss. Ten years ago, Moore’s nephew, Teddy Beckles, was stabbed to death outside his school. Just last year, Moore’s sister suffered a fatal heart attack.
“I can’t take it anymore,” Vanterpool said.
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