Person of interest in 5 stabbings over 9 days in Queens is in custody, NYPD says
A person of interest in a string of unprovoked stabbings in Queens was taken into custody, New York City police said Wednesday.
A person of interest in a string of unprovoked stabbings in Queens was taken into custody, New York City police said Wednesday.
By Thursday morning, the person had not been publicly identified, and police declined to explain why the person was a focus of the investigation.
Over nine days, five people were stabbed with a hunting knife in separate incidents in the Jamaica neighborhood, police told reporters Wednesday. Three of the attacks occurred that day in a span of about 30 minutes, police said.
The person wanted in connection with a series of stabbings is seen with a knife in Queens, N.Y., in surveillance footage released by the NYPD on Wednesday. via NYPDOn Jan. 8, at about 6:20 p.m. ET, a 61-year-old man was stabbed in the back, police said. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and said to be stable.
In the early hours of Tuesday, shortly after midnight, a 34-year-old woman was approached from behind while walking home and stabbed on the right side of her torso before escaping on foot. She was taken to a hospital and was stable.
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