A man fatally stabbed three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, carrying out a series of random attacks without uttering a word to his victims, officials said.
The 51-year-old suspect was in police custody after being found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives he was carrying, authorities said. The suspect's and victims' names weren't immediately released.
"Three New Yorkers. Unprovoked attacks that left us searching for answers on how something like this could happen," Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference.
Investigators were working to understand what propelled the rampage, which happened within 2 1/2 hours.
"No words exchanged. No property taken. Just attacked, viciously," said Joseph Kenny, the New York Police Department's chief of detectives. "He just walked up to them and began to attack them with the knives."
