A 51-year-old man has been indicted on charges of stabbing seven people at Pennsylvania Station earlier this month, Manhattan prosecutors said on Monday.
The man, Hector Deleon, faces seven counts of attempted murder, according to the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg.
Mr. Deleon, of Newark, attacked all seven people within about two minutes on the evening of June 7 at the nation’s biggest transit hub, prosecutors said.
Mr. Deleon stabbed a man in the throat who was sitting on the floor of the NJ Transit area of the complex, according to prosecutors. He then stabbed a woman in the chest and a 60-year-old man in the neck, and when the man fought back, Mr. Deleon stabbed him in the temple, inflicting a brain injury, prosecutors said. They added that he took an escalator to a lower level, where he stabbed a 36-year-old man in the neck and a different 60-year-old man in the face.
Mr. Deleon then stabbed a 42-year-old man in the throat, prosecutors said. After the man fought him off with a backpack, he stabbed a 30-year-old man in the temple, prosecutors said. He was captured by the Amtrak police, one of several police forces that patrol the station. All seven victims survived, prosecutors said.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said that Mr. Deleon had seven prior criminal cases in New Jersey, including a conviction in 2022 for attempted assault with a deadly weapon. He faces 18 felony charges in the Penn Station attacks, including first- and second-degree assault.
The attacks occurred a day before crowds descended on Madison Square Garden, just above the station, for an N.B.A. finals game, and sent panicked passengers fleeing the complex.
“Everyone came running, screaming,” Eduardo Sanchez, who was working in a cafe at the station, said after the attack. “One lady came running over here, crying, screaming, saying, ‘Can I stay over here and hide?’”
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