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    2 killed and one seriously injured in New York City knife attack. A suspect is in custody

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    Jennifer Peltz
    | Associated Press

    new york – A man went on a stabbing rampage in Manhattan early Monday, killing two people and seriously injuring a third without saying a word to the victims, officials said.

    The 51-year-old suspect was in police custody after he was found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives he was carrying, authorities said. The names of the suspect and the victims were not immediately released.

    “Three New Yorkers. Unprovoked attacks that left us searching for answers as to how something like this could happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference. He called the violence “a clear and stark example” of failures in the criminal justice system and elsewhere.

    The suspect, apparently homeless, had been convicted in a criminal case several months ago, the Democratic mayor said, without giving further details.

    Investigators were scrambling to understand what prompted the rampage, which happened over a 2 1/2-hour period.

    “No words were exchanged. No property taken. Just attacked, vicious,” said New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

    The first stabbing, on West 19th Street, killed a 26-year-old construction worker who was standing near his construction site near the Hudson River shortly before 8:30 a.m.

    About two hours later and across Manhattan Island, a 68-year-old man was attacked while fishing in the East River near East 30th Street.

    Both men died, Kenny said.

    The suspect then reportedly traveled north near the river bank. Around 10:55 a.m., a 36-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times near the United Nations headquarters on East 42nd Street, Kenny said. She is hospitalized in critical condition.

    A passing taxi driver saw the third attack and alerted police at nearby First Avenue and East 46th Street, officials said. An officer soon apprehended the suspect.

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