A man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbings of three people in random attacks across Manhattan, police said Tuesday.
Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody after he was found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives, authorities said. He awaited arraignment Tuesday. A message seeking comment was left with an attorney who represented him in a prior case.
"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 Monday afternoon.
Investigators were working to understand what propelled the rampage, which happened within 2 1/2 hours Monday.
"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."
