When the two MTA employees offered to charge his girlfriend’s cell phone during their midtown Manhattan meal break, the stranger thought they were flirting with her, so he slashed them, according to authorities on Tuesday.
Just before five a.m. on Monday, the 30-year-old MTA track worker and the 39-year-old supervisor got into an argument about food outside the Plaza Gourmet Deli at 43rd St. and Ninth Ave., according to police.
According to a police source, the employees struck up a conversation with Kaila Boncy, 28, promising to “help her charge her phone.”
Shane Jorge, Boncy’s boyfriend, became enraged by this and started arguing with the transit employees.
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Jorge, 30, is accused of pulling a knife during the heated argument and slashing the rail worker’s arm and the supervisor’s neck, according to police.
Authorities apprehended Jorge on two charges of assault shortly after they arrived, but not before Boncy is reported to have leaped on the back of an officer who was apprehending her lover. After that, she was accused of impeding government operations and resisting arrest.
With minor cuts, the two transit workers were sent to Bellevue Hospital.
