A man left a trail of violence and death this Monday morning in New York, after going on a tour through Manhattan in which he stabbed three people in three different places. Two of his victims have died and a third is in critical condition.
The perpetrator of the attacks has not been identified by the police, but it is known that he is a homeless man, 51 years old and with a long history of problems with Justice. Everything indicates that he chose his victims, according to the authorities, “at random.”
The first attack occurred at 8:22 in the morning in the Chelsea neighborhood, near the intersection between Eighth Avenue and 19th Street, in the western part of Manhattan. There he stabbed, without confrontation, a 36-year-old man who worked on a construction site. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital, but died. The suspect escaped from there without the New York Police being able to arrest him.
Two hours later, the man stabbed someone again on the other side of Manhattan, on 30th Street at the height of the East River, the river that separates Manhattan from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. His victim has been a 68-year-old man, who has also been stabbed to death. The attacker lived at a nearby homeless shelter, the Bellevue Men’s Shelter.
The second stabbing was also not enough to attract the attention of the Police. A few minutes later, he still had time to attack a third victim. In this case, a 36 year old womanwhich was surprised a few blocks further north, on 42nd Street and First Avenue, near the UN headquarters. She has been taken to nearby Weill Cornell Hospital in critical condition.
“He was simply heading towards the victims and He started attacking them with knives.», explained the chief of detectives of the New York Police, Joe Kenny.
The attacker was arrested shortly after the third stabbing, thanks in part to the collaboration of a taxi driverwho witnessed the last attack, followed the man and notified the Police of his location. Upon arrest, the suspect was wearing two kitchen knives.
The attacker had a history of eight arrests and, according to the city’s mayor, Eric Adams, had mental health problems. “There is a real question as to why he was on the street,” acknowledged Adams, a first mayor besieged by corruption cases and who won the election three years ago for his message of toughness against crime and insecurity.
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