{"id":258955,"date":"2026-06-08T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258955\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:19:11","slug":"amtrak-police-tackle-and-arrest-suspect-after-penn-station-stabbing-injuring-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258955\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak police tackle and arrest suspect after Penn Station stabbing, injuring 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY (TNND) \u2014 At least five people have been stabbed at New York City&#8217;s Penn Station on Sunday, a day before President Donald Trump plans to attend the third game of the NBA finals at Madison Square Garden. The unidentified suspect started stabbing victims near the Amtrak terminals a little after 7 pm EST, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>One person, according to the Daily Mail, was said to have suffered serious injuries, while two others suffered moderate injuries and the other suffered minor injuries. All were transported to a local hospital. The suspect was later arrested by Amtrak police, who tackled him to the ground, according to AMNY.<\/p>\n<p>A photo posted to social media showed officers pinning the suspect to the floor in Penn Station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This guy just stabbed somebody in Penn Station,&#8217; the X post reads.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing at Penn Station comes just a day before the New York Knicks face the San Antonio Spurs in the third game of the NBA Finals that will take place at Madison Square Garden, located directly overhead from the transit hub. President Donald Trump  and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are both set to attend the game.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>As a safety precaution, hundreds of US Secret Service officers and agents will be deployed at the Garden on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (TNND) \u2014 At least five people have been stabbed at New York City&#8217;s Penn Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-258955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258955","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=258955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}