Man on stabbing spree kills two men and a woman in New York

A man stabbed dead two men and a woman at three different locations within a two-and-a-half-hour span in New York City.

Ramon Rivera, 51, was arrested at 7.45pm on Monday after allegedly going on the deadly spree in the morning, according to the New York Police Department.

Cops first responded to a 911 call at 8.22am of a man knifed at 444 West 19 Street and found a 36-year-old victim with ‘multiple stab wounds to the abdomen’, stated the police department.

The man was rushed to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue where he was pronounced dead. He has been identified as Angel Lata Landi of Peekskill.

In another incident around 10.25am, cops responded to another man stabbed at 530 East 30th Street and found a 67-year-old victim also with several stab wounds in this abdomen.

The victim was transported to the same hospital as Landi, where he also died. He had not been identified as of Tuesday morning, pending notification to his family.

And shortly before 11am, cops responded to a 36-year-old woman at the intersection of 42nd Street and 1st Avenue who was stabbed on her chest and left arm.

She was taken to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she died of her injuries. She has been identified as Wilma Augustin of Manhattan, stated the police department.

Rivera, who is undomiciled, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

He has documented mental health issues and been arrested eight times in the city this year, according to officials. He was hit with seven felonies and a misdemeanor, including attempted assault of a police officer and five counts of burglary.

The suspect was arrested a decade after a man named Ramon Rivera along with another suspect in Connecticut allegedly stole 7,000 pennies to buy heroin. The New York Police Department would not confirm to Metro if it the stabbing spree suspect was the same person.

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