A knife-wielding suspect with multiple prior arrests killed two men and left a woman fighting for her life Monday after an unprovoked attack in New York City, authorities said. did.
The alleged attacker, whose name has not been released, is a 51-year-old homeless man who has been arrested eight times. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenney said a good Samaritan taxi driver was arrested after he alerted authorities.
“Today, we have three innocent New Yorkers who were victims of horrific, horrific assaults and are just living normal lives,” he said.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke out about the fatal stabbing in Manhattan on Monday. (New York City Police Department)
Investigators have no other suspects, Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference.
Kenney said the stabbing began around 8:20 a.m., when a 36-year-old man working on 19th Street was stabbed in the abdomen while standing in front of a construction site.
The suspect fled and the victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
About two hours later, a 68-year-old man fishing on 30th Street near FDR Drive along the East River was stabbed multiple times in the body, Kenney said. The victim also died at the same hospital.
Thirty minutes later, a 36-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times at East 42nd Street and First Avenue near the United Nations Building.
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A homeless man used two kitchen knives – one with blood on it – to kill two people and injure a woman in a series of unprovoked and random attacks in New York City on Monday, police said. Announced. (New York City Police Department)
She was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition.
“At this time, it appears these attacks were unfounded,” Kenney said. “He just walked up to them and started attacking them with a knife.”
Shortly after the third attack, witnesses near 46th Street told police that the robbery suspect was walking in the area. Authorities said the witness was a taxi driver who witnessed the third attack and believed it was a robbery rather than a stabbing.
Investigators are at the scene of a fatal stabbing near the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday. (Yuki Iwamura/Tsushinsha)
The suspect was taken into police custody. Police said the man was found holding a large kitchen knife covered in blood. His clothes were also covered in blood, police said.
The police officer who took the suspect into custody told reporters: “I just heard the commotion. I went outside and heard what people were saying and their reactions.”
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The suspect was taken to the police station and questioned. Adams said Monday's attack was “a clear example of a criminal justice and mental health system that continues to fail New Yorkers.”
