Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody after three people were fatally stabbed within 2 1/2 hours across Manhattan.

The suspect, identified by authorities as Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody on Monday after he was found armed with two kitchen knives.

A man who officials say carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan has been charged with three counts of murder.

The man who stabbed three people to death in Manhattan has confessed to targeting victims because they were "alone" and "distracted".

A man is accused of fatally stabbing three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, carrying out a series of random attacks without uttering a word to his victims, officials said.

Two men were killed and a woman left fighting for her life after a homeless New York City man allegedly committed a series of random stabbings, police said.

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.

A 51-year-old man is in custody after police say he went on a stabbing spree in New York City, attacking three people seemingly at random.

A knife-wielding assailant killed two men and a woman during an hourslong, seemingly "unprovoked" stabbing spree through the streets of New York City on Monday, authorities said. The two slain men — attacked near 444 W.

Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody after he was found with blood on his clothes and two kitchen knives, authorities said.