On what otherwise was a pretty spring morning in New York City, a machete-wielding madman went on a stabbing spree at Grand Central Station.
The man, who police identified as 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, brutally attacked three senior citizens shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday on a subway platform, before eventually being shot by police after refusing offers of help and repeatedly failing to comply with orders to drop the machete.
The suspect called himself “Lucifer” as he commenced with the attacks:
A criminal slashed three elderly people with a machete — while calling himself “Lucifer” — in an unprovoked attack and was fatally shot by cops at Grand Central Terminal Saturday morning, police said.An 85-year-old man suffered a deep cut across his head, and a 65-year-old man suffered cuts on his head on the 4, 5, 6 subway platform at the iconic station at 9:50 a.m., police said. A 70-year-old woman was slashed in the shoulder, cops said.Blood-soaked white gauze was wrapped around one victim’s head, photos from the scene show. The slasher was also seen being carried away on a gurney.
As of this writing, the three victims, who reportedly have non-life-threatening injuries, are said to be in stable condition. Griffin died at the hospital.
This appears to be a non-embeddable video of the suspect filmed at a distance after police took him down. Warning: the video appears to contain a blood trail.
Below is the weapon police say was used in the attack:
There’s conflicting information on how many prior arrests Griffin had, with the NY Post initially saying he had 13 before updating to simply note that one of his priors “includes one for menacing with a sharp object.” The NY Times reported that he had three priors:
Ms. Tisch said that the man who died, Anthony Griffin, 44, had been arrested three times before in New York City, but did not have a history of mental illness documented with the police. He called himself Lucifer after the attacks, she said.[…]
Douglas Miller and his wife, Jody Kelley, who live in Manhattan, had been heading to the uptown 4, 5 and 6 platform on Saturday morning on their way to the Guggenheim Museum after buying tickets two weeks in advance to visit the museum’s Gabriele Münter exhibition. When they approached an escalator leading to the station, they saw a metal barricade and officers ordering people to leave the area.
“Another day in New York,” Mr. Miller said as he and his wife walked toward the 51st Street subway station.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (DS), a defund the police proponent, issued this canned statement in response:
I have been briefed on an incident that occurred at Grand Central Station this morning. Reports indicate a man slashed three people on the platform with a machete. Officers shot the man when he did not drop the machete. He has since been pronounced dead.I’m grateful to the NYPD for their quick response and for preventing additional violence. The three victims were taken to the hospital and are thankfully in stable condition. The NYPD is conducting an internal investigation and will release body-worn camera footage, as it does in all incidents involving the discharge of an officer’s firearm.
As did Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), who left out a victim in her statement:
Reaction to soft-on-crime Democrats was, understandably, not kind:
Undoubtedly, for some folks, this crime brought flashbacks to another machete attack in NYC, where a violent career offender with 45 prior arrests used a machete in January 2025 to attack a man, who lost four of his fingers in the assault. Fortunately, the victim survived:
One X user even asked of the suspect in the Saturday attack, “Will he be dining at Gracie Mansion soon?” If Griffin were still alive, I wouldn’t put it past the mayor to invite him. I truly wouldn’t.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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