00:00good evening i'm tanya rivero joe is off tonight we begin with that stabbing rampage inside penn
00:07station this evening police say a homeless man stabbed five people a homeless man this is worst
00:14a homeless can do that man four officers took him into custody eyewitness news reporter lucy yang is
00:20live outside penn station with what we know lucy five five people is stabbed at penn station one
00:27seriously heard homeless man did all this watch well tanya what a harrowing and violent night here
00:35at penn station five innocent victims left bloodied in a knife it happened at 7 pm this evening it can
00:43be you it can be anyone it can be me if i would at the penn station we have dramatic
00:50video to show you
00:51thankfully help arrived quickly my god dramatic video guys be aware okay be aware this is the new
00:59jersey transit concourse area where riders wait for their trains tonight it looked more like this is a
01:04horrific video you see this is we have blurred blurred and the stabbed wound makeshift triage center after
01:13five innocent victims were viciously slashed yes they were innocent five random it can be anyone
01:20you and me it can be anyone fire department reports one suffered serious injuries two moderate injuries
01:27oh my god one serious two moderate and two with minor injuries all taken to bellevue hospital all got
01:34stabbed by a knife yes all are expected to survive i got calls to uh start closing the station now
01:42it's real
01:43bloody bloody there's a lot of blood on the floor still over there this is the ulwinis this is the
01:49police cops before the guy sitting the floor uh but the police uh handed it pretty quick two of my
01:57colleagues two eyewitness news photographers happened to be at penn station at the time and got video of
02:02the scene okay two of the colleagues from this special news channel is there and they recorded this video
02:08watch police quickly made an arrest they are the lead agency this is the homeless man this is the suspect
02:15the suspect homeless man got arrested and described the attacker as homeless you see an eyewitness says
02:22officers put a cover over the suspect's head one source tells us this appears to be a random attack on
02:28commuters yes a random attack man simply trying to board their trains of course the homeless are no stranger to
02:35this
02:35transit hub those who work here describe the chaos and fear that filled penn station sunday night oh my
02:43god people are just so innocent people are just like a step right there without anything here and so
02:51not only me my co-workers too my supervisor whatever something like this happens we're terrified because
02:58yes everybody is terrified my brother it's about our own safety as well
03:04indeed it is about everyone's safety again five innocent victims were five innocent are got stabbed
03:11at the penny station my god be safe guys be safe slash tonight in the new jersey transit concourse area
03:19as terrifying as that was the nightmare is now over amtrak police have one man in custody
03:26and a knife has been recovered yes a knife that same knife five innocent people got stabbed
03:33we're live outside penn station tonight i'm lucy yang for channel 7 eyewitness news yes thank you my boy this
03:40is bad
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