Attacker shot after stabbing three people with machete in Grand Central Station
Three people have been left injured following a stabbing at New York’s Grand Central Station.
Anthony Griffin was shot by police after launching the attack on a platform at the busy railway hub.
He three victims, a 70-year-old woman and two men, aged 84 and 65 sustained injuries to the head and face.
They were all taken to Bellevue Hospital where they remain with non-life threatening injuries.
The incident, captured on body worn cameras, occurred at around 9.40am local on the platform serving subway lines 4, 5 and 6.
Transit authority officers encountered one of the victims on a set of stairs who alerted them to the attack, New York Police Department confirmed.
Griffin, 44, ignored ‘at least 20 orders’ to drop his weapon after he was reported behaving ‘sporadically’ and calling himself ‘Lucifer’.
He then charged at officers with the knife drawn despite being told help was coming.
One of the officers then shot Griffin twice before life-saving measures were performed on the attacker and he was taken to hospital where he was declared dead.
‘Our officers were confronted with an armed individual who had already injured multiple people and was continuing to pose a threat’, a spokesperson for NYPD said.
Early in the day, the force advised people to avoid the vicinity of the station and to expect delays and heavy traffic in the area.
Several subway services will not stop at Grand Central until further notice, New York’s metropolitan transit authority confirmed.
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