{"id":193568,"date":"2026-04-11T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:48:09","slug":"knifeman-calling-himself-lucifer-slashes-three-at-nycs-grand-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193568\/","title":{"rendered":"Knifeman calling himself &#8216;Lucifer&#8217; slashes three at NYC&#8217;s Grand Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A machete-wielding suspect attacked three people at New York City&#8217;s Grand Central station before he was fatally shot by police, in a rampage that diverted trains at the nation&#8217;s biggest rail hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect slashed an 84-year-old man and a 65-year-old man about the head and face and left a 70-year-old woman with cuts to her shoulder in the subway platform attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the assailant, 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, ignored repeated demands to drop the weapon and called himself Lucifer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul said &#8220;innocent people were attacked in a senseless act of violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Orange crime tape is used to cordon off the scene of  blood and a machete on the train platform after a man was shot by New York Police Department.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8c677bfab7461f62e9be6e2e26f272ed.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[EPA]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani praised officers for their rapid response and said police body camera footage of the incident would be released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told a news conference the suspect had entered the subway system on Saturday morning at Vernon Boulevard\u2013Jackson Avenue in the borough of Queens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He boarded the 7 train to Grand Central-42 Street station, where he slashed one person on the platform. The assailant moved upstairs to another platform where he slashed two other people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One was an 84-year-old man, who suffered significant lacerations to the head and face, and the other was a 65-year-old man, who sustained similar injuries, as well as an open skull fracture, said Commissioner Tisch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two transit officers in the vicinity were alerted at 09:40 EDT (13:40 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The individual was armed with a large knife, described as a machete, and was behaving erratically, repeatedly stating that he was Lucifer,&#8221; said Tisch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She said the assailant had ignored at least 20 demands to drop the weapon and &#8220;advanced towards the officers with the knife extended&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One officer discharged his weapon, shooting the suspect twice, before they attempted life-saving measures. But the suspect was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All three victims were taken to hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life threatening. New York police urged residents to avoid the area due to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The assailant had three prior arrests, but no Emotionally Disturbed Person (EDP) report history with NYPD, said Tisch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A machete-wielding suspect attacked three people at New York City&#8217;s Grand Central station before he was fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1965,5302,426,77301,9,56,63,65,64,77300],"class_list":{"0":"post-193568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-grand-central-station","9":"tag-jessica-tisch","10":"tag-kathy-hochul","11":"tag-lucifer","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-nypd-police-commissioner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}