NYPD is searching for an unidentified man after four stabbings in the city’s subway, which left two dead and four injured over several hours.
NEW YORK (AP) _ An unidentified man could be responsible for four different stabbings recorded in the space of a few hours in the New York City subway, which left two dead, authorities said.
The attacks occurred between Friday morning and Saturday morning, according to the New York Police in a press conference.
All four victims were homeless, according to authorities.
The police were looking for a man suspected of all the assaults, and were reviewing the images from the security cameras. The four stabbings occurred on line A of the subway.
One of the victims was found dead on a train in Queens around midnight Friday, with multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso. Two hours later a 44-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in the subway in northern Manhattan.
The two non-fatal attacks, which affected a 67-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, were also in the north of the island.
City police said they would deploy an additional 500 officers to the city-wide subway network as a precaution.
“ To the victims, to the families of the victims: we are 100% committed to achieving justice … to give the families a resolution of this terrible incident, ” said Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, at a press conference.
