2 hours ago
4
NEW YORK (AP) — A antheral with a machete who attacked 3 radical randomly astatine a large New York City subway presumption connected Saturday greeting was changeable and killed by police, authorities said.
Officers responding to a 9:40 a.m. exigency telephone of an battle astatine the 42nd Street-Grand Central presumption encountered the man. He was behaving erratically, claiming helium was “Lucifer,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said astatine an day quality conference. Tisch said helium was ordered to driblet his limb 20 times but refused to comply.
She said yet an serviceman changeable him doubly erstwhile helium precocious toward the officers with the weapon extended.
“Our officers were confronted with an equipped idiosyncratic who had already injured aggregate radical and was continuing to airs a threat,” Tisch said. “They gave wide commands. They attempted to de-escalate. And erstwhile that menace did not stop, they took decisive enactment to halt it and to support New Yorkers connected 1 of the busiest bid platforms successful the city.”
Tisch identified the fishy arsenic Anthony Griffin, 44, and said helium had 3 anterior unsealed arrests. He was pronounced dormant astatine Bellevue Hospital.
The 3 stabbing victims — an 84 year-old male, 65-year-old antheral and 70-year-old pistillate — sustained injuries that were not thought to beryllium life-threatening, Tisch said. One antheral sustained “significant lacerations to the caput and face,” the different antheral had akin injuries and an unfastened skull fracture and the 3rd unfortunate had a laceration to the shoulder.
Tisch said the fishy slashed 1 idiosyncratic connected a level astatine the Grand Central presumption earlier going upstairs and slashing the different victims connected different platform.
Chief of Transit Joseph Gulotta said the attacks look to beryllium random acts.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said connected societal media that she was “grateful to our brave officers who acted rapidly to halt the suspect. We’re moving intimately with the NYPD arsenic the probe unfolds.”
The constabulary department, posting connected X, had urged travelers to debar the country Saturday greeting owed to a constabulary probe and to expect delays and dense traffic. The Metropolitan Transit Authority said immoderate subway trains were not stopping astatine the presumption which is abstracted from determination bid work astatine Grand Central.
Beau Lardner said helium was conscionable swiping successful astatine Grand Central erstwhile bangs rang retired “loud capable to perceive done headphones,” helium told the AP successful a message. The 34-year-old moved from Manhattan to Long Island a fewer weeks ago, but he’s been taking the aforesaid bid from Grand Central for years.
“I cognize that level similar the backmost of my hand,” helium said.
Lardner described a “wall of people” rushing toward him to get done the turnstiles, and helium sprinted backmost up the stairs. He said helium had “never seen a assemblage determination similar that."
___
Robertson reported from Raleigh, N.C. Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut successful Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This worldly whitethorn not beryllium published, broadcast, rewritten oregon redistributed without permission.
English (US) ·