NYC Transit Slasher Demitri Marshall Released and Reoffends (2025)

NYC Transit Slasher Demitri Marshall Released and Reoffends (2025) — A repeat offender with 7 prior arrests was released on supervised release after a Bronx subway slashing, then knifed another stranger in Manhattan weeks later.

Summary

In August 2025, Demitri Marshall, 32, an ex-convict with seven prior arrests, was arrested for unprovoked assault after slashing a stranger on a Bronx subway train. Despite this arrest, a judge released him on supervised release rather than detaining him. Approximately one month later, in mid-October 2025, Marshall again attacked a stranger without warning outside the East Broadway subway station in Manhattan, slashing 27-year-old Fernando (a Ecuadoran immigrant and painter) across his face with a blade, inflicting a gash across his top lip and nose that required seven stitches.

Fernando, speaking to the New York Post, expressed outrage at the justice system: "He's a criminal who got released by a judge and he could've killed me. I don't know why the justice system lets him go free." Fernando had just gotten off the train after work and was waiting at a crosswalk when Marshall attacked him without provocation or saying a word. The victim sought help from on-duty police officers inside the subway station; Marshall had already fled. He was apprehended hours later.

Following his second slashing arrest, Marshall was ordered held without bail. The case was widely cited as an example of how supervised-release programs and low-bail policies allowed repeat violent offenders to continue attacking members of the public. New York Post originally reported the story on October 14, 2025.

Key Details

• Date: First attack August 2025; Second attack October 14, 2025
• Location: Bronx (first attack); East Broadway subway station, Manhattan, New York City (second attack)
• Key People: Demitri Marshall (defendant, 32, 7 prior arrests); Fernando (victim, 27, painter from Ecuador)
• Outcome: Marshall released on supervised release after first attack; arrested and held without bail after second attack

Sources

• New York Post — NYC transit slasher cut loose by judge, then knifes stranger in deranged subway attack
• Breitbart — NYC Transit Slasher Strikes Again After Being Released by Judge
• Original Twitter post by @nypost