{"id":259038,"date":"2026-06-08T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259038\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:09:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-6-stabbed-inside-penn-station-hours-before-nba-finals-crowd-expected-at-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259038\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 6 Stabbed Inside Penn Station Hours Before Nba Finals Crowd Expected At Msg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Six people were injured in a stabbing inside <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/5-people-stabbed-at-nyc-penn-station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penn Station<\/a> on Sunday evening, sending emergency crews rushing into one of the busiest transit hubs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The violence unfolded around 7 p.m. inside the rail station beneath Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak police say six people were stabbed and taken to hospitals. Their injuries ranged from minor to serious, but all are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>A person was taken into custody at the scene, and investigators say a knife was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted to the Citizen app showed a large emergency response inside the station as crews treated victims and secured the area.<\/p>\n<p>Many questions remain unanswered. Investigators have not said what led up to the stabbing, whether the victims were targeted or whether the people involved knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>Because Penn Station is Amtrak property, Amtrak police are leading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened less than 24 hours before thousands of basketball fans are expected to flood the area for Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has also said he plans to attend the game, which is expected to bring an even larger security presence to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, train service was operating normally, and there were no announced changes to security around Penn Station or Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the attack &#8220;horrific&#8221; and said his heart is with the victims, their loved ones and everyone shaken by the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are expected to release additional information as the case develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were injured in a stabbing inside Penn Station on Sunday evening, sending emergency crews rushing into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-259038","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\/259038","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=259038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}