Police announced Wednesday that the man accused of stabbing two people at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve has been charged with a series of crimes, including assault.
Jason Sargent, 28, of Brooklyn, was arrested Tuesday night after the assault. The suspect is suspected of stabbing a 26-year-old woman in the throat and slashing a 42-year-old man's wrists.
He was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, menacing, weapons possession, harassment and disorderly conduct, police said.
According to police and sources, after the two men got into an argument on the stairs at the south exit of the station around 10:15 p.m., a police sergeant first stabbed the man in the left wrist with a knife.
The suspect then ran up the stairs and got into an argument with the woman, Imani-Ciara Pizarro, before punching her in the back of the head and then stabbing her in the neck near the turnstiles.
The sergeant fled up an escalator, but witnesses alerted officers, who arrested him and recovered the knife.
He has been arrested three times in the past for criminal mischief, fare violation and assault on a police officer, officials said.
