A lone, knife-wilding assailant killed two men and critically wounded a woman during an hours-long stabbing spree Monday morning through the streets of New York City, authorities said.
The two slain men, attacked near 444 W. 19th St. at 8:22 a.m. ET and then by 500 E. 30th St. at 10:27 a.m., were both taken to Bellevue Hospital before they were pronounced dead, officials said.
Then a woman was stabbed in the shadows of the United Nations, near East 42nd Street and First Avenue at 10:55 a.m., leaving her in critical condition.
A “person of interest” was captured a short time later at 46th and First, said police, who are not searching for anyone else in connection to these stabbings.
“As of right now, these attacks seem to be unprovoked, that he just walked up to them and began to attack them with the knives,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters.
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