Over the previous few years, New York Metropolis has seen an enormous drop in crime and homicides, however an incident that occurred this previous weekend served as a reminder that something can occur at any time within the metropolis that by no means sleeps.
Yahoo is reporting {that a} man wielding a machete at Grand Central Station was shot by officers after the alleged slasher attacked straphangers at random. Apparently sufficient, the suspect was as soon as a battle rap legend recognized to his fellow rap friends as Fox 5.
In line with the report, 44-year-old Anthony Griffin aka Fox 5, was shot and killed by police Saturday (April 11) after inflicting mayhem on the forty second Avenue prepare station, which led to 3 aged folks struggling accidents at his blade.
When officers confirmed as much as the ruckus being attributable to Griffin, he reportedly referred to himself as “Lucifer” whereas police have been making an attempt to get him to drop the machete. As a substitute, Griffin apparently went towards the police together with his weapon prolonged and was in the end shot and killed.
Per Yahoo:
Police mentioned Griffin focused his three victims at random. He entered the subway system on the Vernon Blvd. station in Queens round 9:30 a.m. Saturday and took the No. 7 prepare to Grand Central Station. As soon as he left the prepare, he pulled out a machete lunged at an 84-year-old man on the platform, slashing the person’s head and face.
Griffin then moved upstairs to the Nos. 4/5/6 platform, the place he attacked a 65-year-old man and a 70-year-old lady, slashing the person’s face and inflicting an open cranium fracture and chopping on the lady’s shoulder, police mentioned.
No phrase on what led to Griffin taking such horrific actions as even his rap friends have been bewildered at how his life got here to such a tragic finish.
Griffin’s long-time buddy and rap music colleague Terrell Blair was additionally shocked by Griffin’s rampage.
“No one anticipated something to that extent,” Blair mentioned. “He has no monitor report of harming anybody, man. So it’s onerous for us.”
“We’ve by no means seen that facet of him,” Blair added. “I knew him since he was, you realize, a baby, and he’s at all times had coronary heart regardless of no matter he was coping with. He used music as a automobile.”
Whereas Griffin has no historical past of psychological sickness, a few of his buddies did counsel he appeared to develop some emotional and psychological points shortly after the passing of his mom 5 years in the past.
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