Mayor Zohran Mamdani says a woman carrying multiple knives stabbed two people on 7th Avenue in Times Square on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that the incident began near West 41st Street around 4:30 p.m. where the suspect, who was armed with two knives, approached a man who was just exiting the subway and was waiting with his wife and was about to cross the street.<\/p>\n
Tisch said a witness at the scene told investigators that they saw the suspect take out two knives from a red Target bag before approaching the victim.<\/p>\n
She said the suspect waved the knives before stabbing a 68-year-old man in his abdomen.<\/p>\n
Tisch said that victim is currently in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.<\/p>\n
The police commissioner said the suspect then headed toward 42nd Street and approached a 32-year-old woman.<\/p>\n
Tisch said the suspect stabbed the woman in the abdomen.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n
Witnesses flagged officers, who then located the suspect on 7th Avenue between West 42nd and West 43rd streets.<\/p>\n
Tisch said the officers engaged in a dialogue with the suspect for approximately four minutes.<\/p>\n
The commissioner said the suspect refused to drop knives, adding that she would rather kill both the officers.<\/p>\n
Officers initially tased her, which was unsuccessful and then the officers opened fire.<\/p>\n
The woman was identified as a 49-year-old Queens resident who has a documented mental health history with the NYPD.<\/p>\n
She had no history of arrests.<\/p>\n
Victims won’t be identified until pending family notification.<\/p>\n
Tisch said it was an unprovoked stabbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani says a woman carrying multiple knives stabbed two people on 7th Avenue in Times Square…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-334348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334348","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=334348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}