{"id":265243,"date":"2026-06-13T03:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265243\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:15:43","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-one-of-5-men-stabbed-in-penn-station-knife-attack-suffered-traumatic-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265243\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | One Of 5 Men Stabbed In Penn Station Knife Attack Suffered Traumatic Brain Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of the five men stabbed during a knife attack <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/6-stabbed-inside-penn-station-hours-before-nba-finals-crowd-expected-at-msg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inside Penn Station<\/a> on Sunday suffered a traumatic brain injury, according to the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hector Deleon, 51, was arraigned Friday for allegedly carrying out the violent spree inside the station Sunday evening, the day before people flooded the adjoining stadium for Game 3 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis was a terrifying attack in the middle of Penn Station during an incredibly busy time in New York City,&#8221; said DA Alvin Bragg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say the men were all stabbed in the head or neck.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of those men suffered a puncture wound to the left temple, piercing his temporal lobe. The wound caused a cerebral hemorrhage and a traumatic brain injury, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two additional men suffered stab wounds to the face, while the remaining two were stabbed in the throat.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say Deleon also allegedly attempted to attack two other people.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Amtrak Police Department Officer Azizur Chowdhury responded to the scene. He and other Amtrak officers confronted Deleon. The 51-year-old dropped the knife and was arrested.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deleon faces a slew of charges, including seven counts of attempted murder, five counts of assault and six counts of attempted assault.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The DA&#8217;s office says the defense requested a 730 exam to determine if Deleon is mentally competent to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We encourage witnesses or anyone who has additional information about this case to call 1-800-331-0008,&#8221; said Bragg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deleon is due back in court on June 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the five men stabbed during a knife attack inside Penn Station on Sunday suffered a traumatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-265243","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\/265243","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=265243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}