{"id":578261,"date":"2026-04-11T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578261\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:11:08","slug":"man-with-machete-fatally-shot-at-grand-central-after-stabbing-attack-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578261\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with machete fatally shot at Grand Central after stabbing attack, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man with a machete was fatally shot by police at New York City&#8217;s Grand Central Station on Saturday after at least two people were injured in a slashing, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said officers encountered the armed man on the 4, 5, 6 subway platform at Grand Central-42nd Street at around 9:40 a.m. after a civilian alerted them about the assault.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old man refused the officers&#8217; orders to drop the weapon and one officer shot him, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD issued an alert to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2042975914015744127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">avoid the area<\/a>\u00a0around Grand Central and later said the man was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The slashing victims were identified as an 84-year-old man and 65-year-old man. Police also said a 70-year-old woman was injured. They were hospitalized in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said there was no clear motive for the attack.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is scheduled to hold a news conference at around 1 p.m. You can stream it live on CBS News New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MTA said 4, 5, 6 and 7 trains are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bypassing Grand Central<\/a>\u00a0because of the police investigation. The MTA said it expects trains to be delayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement, &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to the NYPD for their quick response and for preventing additional violence. The NYPD is conducting an internal investigation and will release body-worn camera footage, as it does in all incidents involving the discharge of an officer&#8217;s firearm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was also briefed on the incident and &#8220;grateful to our brave officers who acted quickly to stop the suspect.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is breaking news. Please stay with CBS News New York for updates.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man with a machete was fatally shot by police at New York City&#8217;s Grand Central Station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,253878,451,38842,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-578261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-grand-central-station","tag-headlines","tag-mta","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}