Person of Interest in Custody Over Random NYC Stabbing Spree: Cops

A person of interest has been taken into custody over a series of random stabbing attacks in New York City, the NYPD confirmed to The Daily Beast Wednesday.

It comes after police on Wednesday issued a public plea for help to locate a suspect who had stabbed multiple people over several days in two precincts of Queens with an apparent hunting knife.

“These are senseless, unprovoked attacks,” New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban said earlier Wednesday at a press conference, just hours before the development.

Read more at The Daily Beast.