11-year-old girl slashed near Manhattan subway station, suspect in custody: sources

NEW YORK (PIX11) -- An 11-year-old girl was slashed near the East 116th Street subway station in East Harlem on Friday afternoon, according to police.

The victim was slashed in the back of the head around 2:30 p.m. She then sought help inside the subway station. The suspect also ran into the subway station and boarded a train, a source told PIX11 News.

"I saw a guy; he was trying to get off the train car, and he was near the third rail," an MTA employee at the scene said. "I asked him what happened, and he said people were chasing him and trying to kill him, but people were yelling he stabbed someone. I grabbed him because I saw the police were running toward us, but he managed to escape."

The victim was loaded into an ambulance, surrounded by paramedics and NYPD brass, video shows. More than a dozen NYPD officers secured the crime scene with yellow crime scene tape.

The victim was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries, police said.

Another video showed a man in handcuffs being placed inside an NYPD squad car. It wasn't immediately clear whether the man was the suspect in the stabbing. However, police sources are saying at least one person is in custody.

Police officials initially stated a woman was stabbed, but sources have clarified the victim was an 11-year-old girl who had been slashed.