Man with machete fatally shot at NYC’s Grand Central after slashing attack, NYPD says

A man with a machete slashed and injured three people at New York City’s Grand Central subway station on Saturday before he was fatally shot by police, officials said.

The NYPD said officers encountered the armed man on the 4/5/6 train platform at Grand Central-42nd Street at around 9:40 a.m. after a civilian alerted them and they found a slashing victim.

The man, identified as 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, was armed with a large knife described as a machete and “behaving erratically, repeatedly stating that he was ‘Lucifer,'” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

Griffin, who had three prior arrest, refused numerous orders to drop the knife and advanced toward the officers before one officer shot him twice, Tisch said. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.

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