A homeless man has been arrested for fatally stabbing a 54-year-old commuter on a Coney Island subway station platform last month, police said Friday.
Cops arrested Zhongqiang Chen, 32, for the Oct. 29 killing on Thursday evening and charged him with second degree murder, the NYPD said.
He’s accused of knifing victim Timothy Rudolph at the Stillwell Avenue station , the terminus for several Brooklyn subway lines, about 11:20 p.m. on Oct. 29, cops said.
Chen allegedly stabbed Rudolph in the back during a dispute, police said. Rudolph stumbled bleeding from the platform onto an idling N train, where responding cops found him sitting in a corner seat unconscious.
He was rushed by medics to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, but he couldn’t be saved.
Rudolph lived in the Bronx, police said.
It was not immediately clear why Chen attacked Rudolph or how police identified him.
Chen’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Friday. He has a criminal record and has been arrested twice, both for petit larceny, since August.