Random acts of violence scare everyone, anyone can be a victim (...), and that's why we have recently increased our presence in the transit system, said the police chief, who quantified the 175 additional agents deployed in the subway. The three victims were taken to a nearby hospital but their lives are not in danger, specified Tisch. It is an 84-year-old man with head and facial injuries, another 65-year-old man with similar injuries and a skull fracture, and a 70-year-old woman with shoulder injuries, according to authorities and local media. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state Governor Kathy Hochul echoed the event and thanked the Corps for its quick response, also noting that an internal investigation of the incident, recorded by the officers' cameras, will be conducted. The New York City Police Chief, Jessica Tisch, said that the man shot this morning in the New York subway after stabbing three people in the busy Grand Central subway station said he was Lucifer and committed a "random act of violence." At a press conference, the police official identified the subject as Anthony Griffin, 44, who had three prior arrests "but did not have a history of EDP (emotional disturbance)", detailing, pointing to mental health as a motive for the attack. Griffin stabbed three victims, aged 65 to 84, on a platform at the station shortly before 10 a.m., and when police approached him shortly after, "he was behaving erratically and repeating that he was Lucifer," Tisch reported. Police gave him "at least 20 orders to drop" the machete and even offered him help, but he approached brandishing the weapon and continued to be a "threat", which prompted an officer to shoot him twice with a fatal outcome, she recounted.
