A shoeless madman was charged Thursday with murder for allegedly stabbing another straphanger to death in an unprovoked spurt of violence on a Queens train - as harrowing video of the bloody attack shows terrified riders scrambling off the subway car.

Jyrell Thomas, 25, allegedly whipped out a knife and plunged it into Mesias Lojano, 59, without warning - stabbing him three times in the torso and once in the neck - on board the packed southbound J train approaching Woodhaven Boulevard around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, police and sources said.

The gravely wounded Lojano, of Ozone Park, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he later died, police said.

3 Jyrell Thomas, armed with a knife, allegedly fatally stabs Mesias Lojano aboard the J train at the Woodhaven Boulevard station in Queens, Sept. 30, 2026. El Viejito/Facebook

3 The shoeless madman was charged with Lojano's murder. El Viejito/Facebook

Disturbing video posted by a straphanger to Facebook shows panicked commuters frantically fleeing the rush-hour train - where a shoeless Thomas is seen knifing Lojano repeatedly while he's on the ground of the subway car, near its doors.

The victim tried to shield himself from the blade - with his hand covered in blood as the callous stabber pulled him by his hoodie out of the car, left him on the platform and then ran off.

The knife-wielding attacker then rushed down the stairs of the elevated station - behind other commuters including a mother and child - as the witness filming the incident yelled in English and Spanish for someone to grab the weapon.

A group of men, including the person filming, then ran after the suspect - who sprinted out into the street and finally perched himself on a garage roof, before police cuffed him.

Thomas - a Bronx resident who did not know Lojano - was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and hospitalized, according to police, though it was not clear why.

3 Police officers work at a crime scene at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station in Queens, New York, after a passenger was stabbed and killed on a J train. Peter Gerber

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