Nypd Releases Footage Of Machete-wielding Man Who Stabbed Three At Grand Central

New York City constabulary released body-worn camera footage showing officers fatally shooting a man equipped pinch a machete who had stabbed 3 individuals astatine a Grand Central subway position past month.

Officers were seen confronting Anthony Griffin aft he randomly slashed 3 victims astatine he 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station.

The video clip posted connected nan department's YouTube page nan uniformed officers, identified successful nan video arsenic detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, encountering nan 44-year-old arsenic he walks up a stairwell holding a ample knife astatine astir 9:40 a.m. connected April 11.

They bid Griffin to driblet nan limb aggregate times, but Giuffre draws his weapon arsenic Griffin continues to clasp nan weapon precocious adjacent his head.

Griffin past retreats down nan stairs, but starts moving toward nan officers pinch nan weapon still overhead erstwhile they commencement to prosecute him.

“Nobody wants to wounded you,” Giuffre says successful nan video. “We tin talk astir it. Get down. Get down. Dude, I’m not going to inquire you again. Please. Please. Please. Get down!”

But Griffin continues shouting and moving erratically toward nan officers pinch nan ample leaf raised.

“I don’t want to beryllium here. Shoot me,” he says astatine 1 point. “I americium Lucifer," he says a fewer moments later.

Giuffre past fires 2 shots astatine Griffin, who instantly drops to nan ground. He was taken to nan hospital, wherever he was pronounced dead.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said astatine nan clip of nan incident that nan officers ordered Griffin to driblet nan weapon astatine slightest 20 times but he refused to comply.

“Our officers were confronted pinch an equipped individual who had already injured aggregate group and was continuing to airs a threat,” she said. “They gave clear commands. They attempted to de-escalate. And erstwhile that threat did not stop, they took decisive action to extremity it and to protect New Yorkers connected 1 of nan busiest train platforms successful nan city.”

The 3 stabbing victims, an 84-year-old male, a 65-year-old antheral and a 70-year-old female, sustained injuries including “significant lacerations to nan caput and face” and a skull fracture, though nan wounds were not considered life-threatening, Tisch said.