Michelle Alyssa Go, 49, was killed on January 15 when she was shoved onto the subway tracks on the southbound by Simon Martial The assault came amid a spike in crimes in the city’s transit system, including attacks that claimed the lives of eight people just this year, a startling reality that has left many commuters on edge. Police are urging the public to be on the lookout for the assailant who was seen fleeing the subway station in the city's posh Tribeca neighborhood. Police said his injuries are not life-threatening. Griffin suffered a cut to his forehead and was spotted being bandaged up by paramedics before he was transported to a local hospital. No arrests have been made and an investigation into what spurred the assault is ongoing. The attacker struck Griffin in the head with the sheath of his sword and fled in an unknown direction. Thursday on a northbound A train at the Chambers Street station in Lower Manhattan, police said. The latest violent incident in New York City’s transit system happened around 9:30 a.m. The discovery of the two containers inside the station, located just two blocks from the World Trade Center, on the morning of August 16, 2019, prompted an evacuation of Fulton Street and counter-terrorism officers were summoned to the scene.Īn hour later, cops confirmed the cookers were empty, were not modified, and were not explosives as first feared, but a city-wide search for the culprit who planted them was launched.įamily members told at the time of Griffin's arrest that he had a history of drug abuse and drug addiction and had been panhandling in New York up until the rice cooker incident.įamily members told at the time of Griffin's arrest that he had a history of drug abuse and drug addiction and had been panhandling in New York up until the rice cooker incident Griffin was charged with two counts of placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in 2020 after surveillance footage captured him pushing a shopping cart filled with rice cookers inside Fulton Street Station and planting two of the devices on separate parts of the platform. His attacker, who is wearing a ninja suit with a rainbow-colored pattern on the sleeves, a black baseball hat with a Marvel logo on the front, is still on the loose. Griffin was hit in the head with a samurai sheath with a pearl handle, leaving him with wounds that are not considered to be life-threatening, according to police.
Larry Griffin, a panhandler who caused a frenzy in 2019 when he planted rice cookers inside lower Manhattan subway stations, has been identified to the New York Daily News as the same man who was bloodied by a man he said was dressed as a ninja.
The man who was attacked by a samurai sword-wielding assailant on the New York City subway Thursday morning is the same man who triggered a bomb scare on the transit system three years ago.
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