Passenger fatally stabbed on Greyhound Bus traveling from Pittsburgh to D.C.

An 18-year-old Detroit man charged with fatally stabbing a fellow passenger Sunday night aboard a Greyhound bus just outside Pittsburgh told first responders it was the first time he had killed anyone and referred to a “demon” who “took many souls,” according to a criminal complaint.

Police said Javon Garrett used a knife that was 5 to 6 inches long to stab his seatmate, Cozell McQueen, multiple times in the neck while aboard the bus as it traveled along the Parkway East in Wilkins en route to Washington, D.C.

The attack happened about 10:30 p.m. and was witnessed by dozens of passengers, who said it was unprovoked.

Someone called 911, and state police took Garrett into custody at the scene.

“I ain’t gonna lie, it feel (sic) good,” Garrett told first responders as they tended to him for an injured hand, the complaint said. “I ain’t never killed nobody neither … first time.”

“He was a demon though,” police quoted Garrett as saying. “He took many souls.”

Police said Garrett began harassing some of the 36 other passengers before drawing the knife from a sheath and stabbing McQueen.

The driver pulled over. Police took Garrett into custody, and he and McQueen were taken to the hospital.

McQueen, 39, of Gary, Ind., was pronounced dead just before 11 p.m. at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville.

Investigators found a sheath in Garrett’s pants pocket and the knife on the floor of the bus near where the two men sat, the complaint said.

As of Monday evening, Garrett had not been arraigned and was being treated at the hospital, according to an Allegheny Health Network spokesman.

The bus was traveling from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., with stops scheduled in Harrisburg, York and Baltimore.

A relief bus from Pittsburgh continued the trip after state police interviewed some passengers, according to Mike Ogulnick, a Greyhound spokesman.

The bus carried the passengers and the driver to Baltimore and then finished its route in Washington, D.C.

Greyhound did not address questions about security on board, details of the incident or statistics about violence aboard its buses.

The bus company’s website forbids weapons and unruly behavior and provides some advice for passengers:

“Just chill out, be nice and enjoy the ride.”