Two men were killed and a woman was critically injured by a knife-wielding maniac who went on a random stabbing spree in Manhattan Monday morning, cops and sources said.
The sickening spree began around 8:20 a.m. when the 51-year-old killer approached a 30-year-old man on West 19th Street near Eighth Avenue and knifed him in the stomach, police said.
That victim — whom sources identified as a construction worker — was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he died, cops said.
About two hours passed before the violent menace moved to East 30th Street near the FDR Drive, where he knifed a man in his 60s multiple times, police and sources said.
That man was taken to the same hospital, where he too succumbed to his injuries, sources said.
Then, shortly before 11 a.m., the brute stabbed a woman in the chest at East 42nd Street and First Avenue, cops and sources said.
She was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition.
Sources described each stabbing as random and said the attacker started disputes with each of his victims.
The suspect, a resident of the Bellevue Men’s Shelter, was taken into custody at East 46th Street and First Avenue, sources said. Charges were pending.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
