{"id":194541,"date":"2026-04-12T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:23:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-exclusive-killing-man-accused-in-grand-central-stabbings-wasnt-right-friend-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194541\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Exclusive Killing Man Accused In Grand Central Stabbings Wasnt Right Friend Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anthony Griffin was fatally shot by police Saturday morning after police say he stabbed three people at <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/police-shoot-suspect-in-grand-central-station-stabbing-spree\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Central Station<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, Griffin was instructed to drop a machete he was holding multiple times and lunged at the officers before he was shot. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Griffin was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 spoke on Sunday exclusively with the mother of the longtime partner of Griffin about the incident. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deborah Brown tells News 12 he often carried around a machete for what they claim is protection. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Griffin had been struggling mentally, and they are now demanding the footage to be released, Brown said. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIf he did that- they are saying he did this. I want to see proof; I want to see footage of it. I want to also say that maybe something did trigger, but it still wasn&#8217;t right. They could&#8217;ve tased him.\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Saturday said the encounter was captured on body-worn cameras. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Griffin was fatally shot by police Saturday morning after police say he stabbed three people at Grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-194541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194541","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=194541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}