The incident comes after a woman was recently burned to death while riding the subway. Olsen explained that as someone who regularly rides the subway, he wasn’t paying much attention to the two passengers who were screaming at each other, until his friend, Caroline Haroldson, who is from out of town, drew his attention to it.
“Most people have their headphones in, so they aren’t really listening to what’s going on, but Cara and I are listening to the whole thing,” he said. Haroldson noticed that one of the passengers had pulled out a knife. The TikToker added that he was making jokes, not thinking the interaction was as serious as it was until one of the yelling passengers began to run and charge at the other. This caused the entire car to run toward the side door of the subway car in the hopes of exiting, right by where Olsen and Haroldson were sitting.
Olsen says he ending up “ripping open” the door between the subway cars to allow all of the passengers to get out, but the car in front of them had a locked door. “We get pushed all the way to the front of that next car, but the door in front of that is completely locked, all we can hear behind us is people are screaming,” Olsen said.
“We don’t know if someone has brought out a gun. We don’t know who else has been stabbed.”. It is unclear if someone was actually stabbed or injured in the incident. They continued to pry the door open, with none of the attempts working, until one passenger pulled the emergency break, stopping the entire train.
