A man with a machete who attacked three people randomly at a major New York City subway station Saturday morning was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Officers responding to a 9:40am report of stabbings at the 42nd Street-Grand Central station encountered the man, per the AP. He was behaving erratically, claiming he was "Lucifer," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. Tisch said he was ordered to drop his weapon at least 20 times but refused to comply. She said an officer ultimately shot him twice when he advanced toward the officers with the knife extended.
Tisch identified the suspect as Anthony Griffin, 44, and said he had three prior unsealed arrests. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. The three stabbing victims—an 84-year-old male, a 65-year-old male, and a 70-year-old female—sustained injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening. One man sustained "significant lacerations to the head and face," the other man had similar injuries and an open skull fracture, and the third victim had a laceration to the shoulder, said Tisch.
The assailant slashed one person on a platform at the Grand Central station before going upstairs and slashing the other victims on another platform. Beau Lardner was just swiping in at Grand Central when bangs rang out "loud enough to hear through headphones," he tells the AP. The 34-year-old described a "wall of people" rushing toward him to get through the turnstiles, and he sprinted back up the stairs. He said he had "never seen a crowd move like that."
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