A man got out of an SUV and stabbed two people to death on an East Harlem street early Monday morning, authorities said.
The victims, ages 27 and 29, were walking down Second Avenue when a white van pulled up near E. 105th Street at about 12:20 a.m., New York police said. York.
The criminal, identified by officials as 34-year-old Cory Black, got out of the vehicle and stabbed the 29-year-old man in the neck and the other person in the back before fleeing the scene, deputies said.
Another man in the truck remains at large and is still being sought by authorities, according to the Daily News.
Black, who was trying to escape by making a U-turn, was captured by the police forces that responded to the attack.
As officers searched him and the SUV, they found numerous firearms, including a machine gun, in the truck’s trunk, police said.
The offender, from Queens, charged with a series of charges, including assault, multiple counts of possession of weapons and reckless endangerment.
The victim stabbed in the neck was taken by paramedics to Harlem Hospital and the other man was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell. The two people were in stable condition.
So far it is not clear what motivated the stabbing events.
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