NYPD investigates spate of subway attacks killing two and injuring two in stabbings

Two people were killed and two others injured in a series of stabbings that took place on the New York subway from Friday to Saturday.

As reported by the police last Saturday, These are four different incidents, all against homeless people who did not cause the incident, as reported by the US chain CNN, which also adds that three of the incidents appear to be related and that it is being investigated whether the fourth is also related to the previous one.

According to local media CBS“One person of interest” is questioned about the facts.

The first phone call was received Friday evening at 11:20 PM and therein was pointed out A 67-year-old man was stabbed by another unknown man in Queens.

Ten minutes later, the police found a corpse with stab wounds to the neck and torso at another station

After this discovery, two hours passed until a metro operator found a 44-year-old woman unconscious and with several stab wounds to the body who eventually died in hospital.

Shortly afterwards, he found a man with similar injuries that he is stable in the hospital and that he has told the police that he was stabbed by someone he did not know. This last wounded man was found in the same station as the first

The two non-fatal attacks, affecting a 67-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, were also in the north of the island.

New York police have announced that they will deploy 500 additional agents in the transportation network next Saturday as a preventive measure against the possibility of more stabbings.

“To the victims, to the families of the victims: we are 100% committed to achieving justice … to provide the families with a solution to this terrible incident,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a news conference.

(With information from Europa Press and AP)