New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement on the attack that “innocent people were attacked in a senseless act of violence”.<\/p>\n
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
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
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
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
Two transit officers in the vicinity were alerted at 09:40 EDT (13:40 GMT).<\/p>\n
“The individual was armed with a large knife, described as a machete, and was behaving erratically, repeatedly stating that he was Lucifer,” said Tisch.<\/p>\n
She said the assailant had ignored at least 20 demands to drop the weapon and “advanced towards the officers with the knife extended”.<\/p>\n
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
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
The assailant had three prior arrests, but no Emotionally Disturbed Person (EDP) report history with NYPD, said Tisch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement on the attack that “innocent people were attacked in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-193681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193681","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=193681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}