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A New Jersey man was busted in connection to a fatal stabbing inside a Lower Manhattan subway station last October, police said Friday.

Amado Garzon Morales, 29, of New Brunswick, was arrested Wednesday by NYPD’s Warrant Squad at a Richmond Hill home and charged in the death of Julio Cesar Cantero Hernandez on Oct. 4, police said.

Morales allegedly stabbed the 20-year-old “multiple times in the legs” after a verbal argument turned physical on the northbound J/Z train platform in the Chambers Street station, police said.


  Amado Garzon Morales was charged in the fatal stabbing of Julio Cesar Cantero Hernandez. William Farrington Amado Garzon Morales was charged in the fatal stabbing of Julio Cesar Cantero Hernandez. William Farrington

Hernandez was taken to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he died, cops said.

Morales is facing a murder two charge, cops said.

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