Transit Employee Arrested After Slicing Boss In Stomach For Yelling At Him For Being Late

The18-year MTA veteran, underwent upper abdomen surgery.


An MTA foreman allegedly sliced his boss in the stomach in The Bronx early yesterday after getting chewed out for being late, transit sources said.
“The guy just walked up to him and stabbed him,” said MTA worker Clarence St. John.
It was just after 8:15 a.m. when junior foreman Alex Davis, 41, strolled into the workplace and began arguing with senior supervisor Kenneth Palacios, 59, under the No. 2 train’s Allerton Avenue station at White Plains Road, transit cops said.
Davis whipped out a knife and plunged it into Palacios’ stomach, St. John said.

Palacios “walked up to me and told me he was just stabbed,” said St. John, 57.


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