Stabbings On New York Subway Leave 3 Hurt As Officers Shoot And Kill Knife-wielding Man

NEW YORK — A man pinch a machete who attacked 3 group randomly astatine a awesome New York City subway position connected Saturday greeting was changeable and killed by police, authorities said.

Officers responding to a 9:40 a.m. emergency telephone of an battle astatine nan 42nd Street-Grand Central position encountered nan man. He was behaving erratically, many times claiming he was “Lucifer,” said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch astatine a news conference. He was ordered to driblet his limb 20 times but refused to comply.

At that point, an serviceman changeable him twice.

“Our officers were confronted pinch an equipped individual who had already injured aggregate group and was continuing to airs a threat,” Tisch 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, 65-year-old antheral and 70-year-old female — sustained injuries that were not thought to beryllium life-threatening, Tisch said. One man sustained “significant lacerations to nan caput and face,” nan different man had akin injuries and an unfastened skull fracture and nan 3rd unfortunate had a laceration to nan shoulder.

Tisch said nan fishy slashed 1 personification connected a level astatine nan Grand Central position earlier going upstairs and slashing nan different victims connected different platform.

Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta said nan attacks look to beryllium random acts.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said connected societal media that she was “grateful to our brave officers who acted quickly to extremity nan suspect. We’re moving intimately pinch nan NYPD arsenic nan investigation unfolds.”

The constabulary department, posting connected nan societal media tract X, had urged travelers to debar nan area Saturday greeting owed to a constabulary investigation and to expect delays and dense traffic. The Metropolitan Transit Authority said immoderate subway trains were not stopping astatine nan station, which is abstracted from location train work astatine Grand Central.

Walker and Robertson constitute for nan Associated Press. Robertson reported from Raleigh, N.C. Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut successful Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.