Passenger stabbed on Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A passenger was stabbed multiple times while riding a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus on Tuesday, police said.
PRT said the victim was stabbed on a 56-Lincoln Place bus shortly before noon near the intersection of Second and Flowers avenues in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition, the agency said.
The suspect ran away after the stabbing. Port Authority police arrested him shortly after and took him to another hospital to get cuts on his hand treated.
The agency said the suspect had no ID on him and refused to provide his name. He was originally charged as John Doe, but PRT said on Thursday that he had been positively identified as 23-year-old Adrian Dunston through the FBI's national fingerprint identification system from a prior arrest.
There were about a dozen other people on the bus, which was heading to Downtown Pittsburgh, when the stabbing happened, PRT said. No one else was injured.
According to the criminal complaint, one witness two seats away from the stabbing told police Dunston began to stab the victim seemingly unprovoked.
Detectives said cameras show the suspect charging the victim and stabbing him. The victim fell out of the bus, and Dunston continued to stab him before running away, police said.
Port Authority police are investigating what led up to the stabbing. Authorities didn't release any other details.
