One person was killed and another injured after a woman randomly stabbed two people in New York City's Times Square before being fatally shot by police, authorities said.
The attack happened shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday near a New York Police Department substation outside One Times Square, the building famous for hosting the city's annual New Year's Eve ball drop. The location is among New York's most heavily visited and closely policed areas.
According to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the 49-year-old woman from Queens pulled two knives from a shopping bag and attacked a 68-year-old man who had just exited the subway and was waiting to cross the street with his wife. She stabbed him in the abdomen.
Seconds later, she stabbed a 32-year-old woman, also in the abdomen. Both victims were taken to a hospital, where the woman died. The man remained in stable condition. Police did not say whether either victim was a tourist or a New York resident.
Videos shared online showed numerous officers surrounding the woman as she stood holding two large kitchen knives. Tisch said officers spent several minutes trying to persuade her to put the weapons down before deploying a Taser.
