Suspect indicted for murder in unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan: Prosecutors
Ramon Rivera is accused of randomly killing three people.
ByAaron Katersky and Meredith Deliso
Suspect in Manhattan stabbing spree appears in court on murder chargesRamon Rivera, 51, is accused of killing three people in an stabbing spree in Manhattan. He appeared in court for the first time on Tuesday. He confessed to the murders during questioning, police said.
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A grand jury returned an indictment charging Ramon Rivera with murder in a deadly stabbing spree across Manhattan last month, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Prosecutors said Rivera, 51, committed “an unprovoked and violent series of stabbings” that killed three people within a span of three hours.
“These fatal stabbings have shaken our city, and those who commit random acts of violence will face accountability,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
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Rivera allegedly broke into a hardware store on First Avenue the morning of Nov. 18, stealing a backpack, kitchen knives and construction gloves, prosecutors said.
He is accused of using the knives to then stab his victims at random and without provocation, before fleeing the scene, police said.
The first victim, 35-year-old Angel Lata Landi, was stabbed twice in the torso at around 8:20 a.m. by the construction site where he was working on West 19th Street, the NYPD and prosecutors said.
About two hours later, 67-year-old Chang Wang was fatally stabbed multiple times on East 30th Street, where he had been fishing, prosecutors said.
The third victim, 36-year-old Wilna Augustin, was sitting on a park bench shortly before 11 a.m. at East 42nd Street and First Avenue when she was stabbed multiple times as she yelled for help, prosecutors said.
All three victims were transported to local hospitals, where they were pronounced dead, prosecutors said.
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After the third stabbing incident, an eyewitness followed the suspect until he was able to point him out to law enforcement, prosecutors said. A police officer and federal agent ran after Rivera, stopping him around East 46th Street and First Avenue, prosecutors said.
Two bloody kitchen knives were recovered, police said.
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Rivera has been charged in the indictment with one count of first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree murder and one count of third-degree burglary, the district attorney’s office said.
ABC News has reached out to his attorney for comment.
Rivera was initially charged with three counts of first-degree murder following his arrest, police said. He confessed to the killings during questioning, according to police sources.
The suspect, who had been staying at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter on East 30th Street, has eight prior arrests in New York City, according to law enforcement. He is believed to have severe mental health challenges, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.
“There’s a real question as to why he was on the street,” Adams said following the suspect’s arrest.
Rivera’s prior arrests mainly involved shoplifting, officials said. None involved a weapon.
He was out without bail pending trial on his most recent arrests.
He had two documented interactions with the city while in mental distress, officials said.
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UK police charge man with 10 counts of attempted murder following train mass stabbing
Transport police said the suspected attacker, Anthony Williams, also faced a separate attempted murder charge over another incident at a train station in London on Saturday. They were also investigating if he was involved in three other knife incidents.
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A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on a London-bound train, as a critically wounded train worker was hailed on Monday, November 3, as a hero for stepping in to protect passengers. “He went in to do his job and he left work a hero. And there are people who are alive today because of his actions and his bravery,” Transport Minister Heidi Alexander said of the attack on Saturday evening.
Alexander also praised the train’s driver, whose quick thinking ensured it was able to make an unscheduled emergency stop at Huntingdon in eastern England that allowed passengers to escape the train.
Transport police said the suspected attacker, Anthony Williams, 32, also faced a separate attempted murder charge over another incident at a train station in London hours earlier on Saturday. He appeared in court on Monday and was remanded in custody.
Police are also probing whether Williams was involved in three other knife incidents in his hometown of Peterborough on Friday and Saturday, including one in which a 14-year-old was stabbed. Cambridgeshire Police said it had referred itself to Britain’s independent police watchdog to scrutinize its response to those incidents.
Ten people were wounded in Saturday’s train knife rampage. The train company employee who was injured remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition. Scunthorpe United football club, meanwhile, named its defender Jonathan Gjoshe as one of the victims, adding that he was receiving inpatient treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.
The train had been traveling from northern England to London’s King’s Cross Station at about 7:40 pm on Saturday. Passengers told of seeing victims with stab wounds fleeing through the train, warning others to escape.
‘Heroic’
Chief investigation officer Stuart Cundy also paid tribute to the injured train company employee. “Having viewed the CCTV from the train, the actions of the member of rail staff were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved people’s lives,” he said. Four other people remained in hospital though their condition was not life-threatening.
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Alexander said there would be an increase in visible police patrols on trains in coming days to reassure the public. The incident had been “absolutely horrific” but the UK rail network was generally among the “safest forms of public transport anywhere in the world,” she told Sky News.
The arrested man was not known to counter-terrorism police or the security services, she added. Interior minister Shabana Mahmood told parliament the incident had been “an isolated attack.”
Williams faces 10 counts of attempted murder, one of actual bodily harm and one of possessing a knife in connection with the train stabbings, said Tracy Easton of the Crown Prosecution Service. Following an earlier incident at a train station in east London in the early hours of Saturday, he also faces another charge of attempted murder and possessing a knife.
“We know the devastating impact the events on Saturday’s train has had and how the incident shocked the entire country,” Easton said, adding: “Our thoughts remain with all those affected.”
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Suspect charged with attempted murder over mass stabbing attack on UK train
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UK police on Monday charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder after a mass knife attack on a train Saturday evening left 11 people wounded, and revealed he may have stabbed two other people prior to the attack. The stabbing spree left passengers traumatised as they tried to escape from the attacker before the train made an emergency stop.
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UK police on Monday charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a train that wounded 11 people, adding that he may have stabbed two other people in the 24 hours before the attack.
British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one of actual bodily harm and one of possession of a bladed article over the attack on Saturday.
Williams, a British citizen living in Peterborough, made a brief appearance at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Flanked by four security officers as he stood in the dock wearing a gray prison tracksuit and handcuffs, was ordered detained until his next hearing on December 1. He was not asked to enter pleas.
The charge of actual bodily harm is for allegedly hitting a police officer and breaking his nose after his arrest
He is also charged with attempted murder over an earlier incident at Pontoon Dock light rail station in London just before 1am on Saturday in which a victim “suffered facial injuries after being attacked with a knife” by an assailant who fled the scene.
Police say they are not treating the train stabbings as an act of terror and are not looking for other suspects. A second man initially arrested as a suspect was released without charge on Sunday after it was determined the 35-year-old was not involved.
A separate police force, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, said it is investigating whether Williams was involved in three incidents in the city of Peterborough – a Friday evening stabbing in which a 14-year-old boy received minor injuries and two reports of a man with a knife at a barber shop on Friday evening and Saturday morning. In all three cases, the suspect quickly left the scene and police did not detain anyone.
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‘Nothing short of heroic’
The minutes-long stabbing spree spread fear and panic through a train bound from Doncaster in northern England to London on Saturday evening. The train was about halfway through its journey and had just departed from a stop at Peterborough when police began receiving calls about people being stabbed onboard.
Passengers described scenes of panic as bloodied travelers raced down the train to get away from the knifeman. Eleven people were treated in hospital. The most seriously wounded victim is a member of railway staff who tried to stop the attacker. Police called his actions “nothing short of heroic”.
He is hospitalised in a critical but stable condition. Four other victims remained in a hospital on Monday, including Jonathan Gjoshe, a player with soccer team Scunthorpe United. The team said he has “non-life threatening injuries”.
Williams was arrested when the train made an emergency stop in the town of Huntingdon, about 75 miles (120 kilometres) north of London. Police say he was detained within eight minutes of officers receiving the first emergency calls.
Authorities said the attack was an isolated incident but stepped up security on the railway, with armed police officers on patrol Monday at major train stations.
The government rejected calls for increased security measures such as airport-style passenger and baggage screening to be introduced at Britain’s 3,500 railway stations, saying that it wouldn’t be “proportionate or practical”.
In the UK, which has strict gun-control laws, almost half of all homicides involve a knife or sharp instrument. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s centre-left government has pledged to reduce knife crime and has tightened rules for purchasing knives and banned some kinds of blades.
It claims to have had some success, with the number of knife killings down by more than 20% in the year to March 2025 from the previous 12 months, according to the Office for National Statistics.
