A man carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, killing two people and critically wounding a third without uttering a word to his victims, officials said.
The 51-year-old suspect was in police custody after being found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives he was carrying, authorities said. The suspect’s and victims’ names weren’t immediately released.
“Three New Yorkers. Unprovoked attacks that left us searching for answers on how something like this could happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference. He called the violence “a clear, clear example” of failures in the criminal justice system and elsewhere.
The suspect, apparently homeless, had been sentenced in a criminal case a few months ago, the Democratic mayor said, without giving further details.
Investigators were working to understand what propelled the rampage, which happened within 2 1/2 hours.
“No words exchanged. No property taken. Just attacked, viciously,” said Joseph Kenny, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives.
The first stabbing, on West 19th Street, killed a 26-year-old construction worker who was standing by his work site near the Hudson River a little before 8:30 a.m.
About two hours later and across the island of Manhattan, a 68-year-old man was attacked while fishing in the East River near East 30th Street.
Both men died, Kenny said.
The suspect then apparently traveled north near the riverfront. Around 10:55 a.m., a 36-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times near the United Nations headquarters on East 42nd Street, Kenny said. She is hospitalized in critical condition.
A passing cabdriver saw the third attack and alerted police on nearby First Avenue and East 46th Street, officials said. An officer soon apprehended the suspect.
(AP)
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This saga is solely & exclusively the fault of bragg ימח שמו וזכרונו who bother prosecuting this wicked savage, since he is too occupied with harassing President Elect Donald Trump שליט”א, a completely innocent person.
This wicked savage needs to be locked in a cell with bragg & hochul, never to ever reemerge.
Eric Adams says crime is down
This is what the bleeding heart liberals don’t, or won’t, comprehend. People living in the streets are alcohol or drug addled madmen. Seriously, how many “homeless” vagabonds are there against their wishes, wishing they only had a job and an apartment? In my city, a lawsuit by local business owners forced the municipal government to forcibly remove a concentrated homeless encampment covering several city blocks. Few accepted the offer of temporary housing, and it’s an open question how many of those are back on the streets elsewhere. They are insane. Many of them are criminally insane. LBJ emptied the mental asylums sixty years ago; courts upheld the right to live in the streets. Thank a democrat if you like news pieces like this one. And pray you’re not the next victim.