Police at scene of double stabbing in Queens on Jan. 17, 2024.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
A massive manhunt is underway for the serial Queens stabber who attacked two men on Wednesday morning and has been tied to two other bloody assaults in the borough this month.
Police said the suspect stabbed two men near the intersection of Guy R. Brewer Boulevard and 134th Avenue in Springfield Gardens at around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 17.
Officers from the 113th Precinct raced to the crime scene and found a 74-year-old man with a stab wound to his abdomen and a 41-year-old man who had been stabbed in the back. EMS transported the two victims to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where they were listed in serious but stable condition.
Based on a preliminary investigation, police have tied the culprit in Wednesday’s attack to two other stabbings in the Springfield Gardens area dating back to Jan. 8. Sources familiar with the investigation say they are also looking into possible links with other recent stabbings in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
In each of the Springfield Gardens stabbings, police said, the perpetrator attacked his victims without provocation, saying nothing to his targets before unleashing violence upon them.
The Jan. 8 assault occurred at the corner of 157th Street and 137th Avenue, about a half-mile away from the site of Wednesday’s attack.
In that incident, police reported, the perpetrator stabbed a 61-year-old man in the back. The victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition.
More than a week later, cops said, he assaulted a 34-year-old woman walking in the vicinity of 158th Street and 134th Avenue at about 12:08 a.m. on Jan. 16.
Police reported that the male suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed her in her torso before running off eastbound on 134th Avenue. EMS rushed the woman to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where she was listed in stable condition.
Then on Wednesday morning, at about 7:29 a.m., the assailant attacked two men near the…
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