{"id":194806,"date":"2026-04-13T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194806\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:59:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-exclusive-killing-man-accused-in-grand-central-stabbings-wasnt-right-friend-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194806\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Exclusive Killing Man Accused In Grand Central Stabbings Wasnt Right Friend Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Friends of the man who police say was responsible for stabbing three people at Grand Central Station say he had been struggling mentally.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deborah Brown told News 12 44-year-old Anthony Griffin often carried around a machete for what they claim was protection.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police shot Griffin Saturday morning after authorities say he stabbed three people on a platform 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 detectives, Griffin was instructed to drop a machete he was holding 20 times and lunged at the officers before he was shot twice.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Griffin was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Close friends of Griffin say violence of any kind is extremely out of character.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen him be violent or hurt anybody,&#8221; Brown said, who added that she viewed Griffin like a son.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;All he was doing was walking around with his machete, which he has the right to, because everyone has the right to bear arms,&#8221; said Shamosi Bey, who identified himself as Griffin&#8217;s longtime friend.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 also spoke with Griffin&#8217;s longtime partner, Fatima Brown. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Grief stricken, she spoke highly of Griffin&#8217;s character. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She also highlighted his mental health struggle in recent years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;He was going through a lot mentally. He most likely was fighting demons for a while,&#8221; Fatima said. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Whatever happened&#8230;It wasn&#8217;t him. Physically? Maybe. Spiritually? No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Those close to Griffin are now demanding the footage of the incident to be released.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Saturday said the encounter was all captured on body-worn cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends of the man who police say was responsible for stabbing three people at Grand Central Station say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-194806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194806","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=194806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194806\/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=194806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}