[NYPOST] An assailant randomly stabbed two men in separate attacks in Morningside Heights on Thursday night — leaving one of the victims in grave condition, police and sources said.The first knifing occurred near the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and 123rd Street shortly before 11 p.m., cops said.
About 15 minutes later, the same male suspect stabbed another victim near Morningside Park at the intersection at Morningside Drive and West 110th Street, according to police and sources.
The victims are 30 and 27 years old, police said. One of them was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries and the other is expected to survive.
The attacker fled east on West 110th Street after the second stabbing and was busted in Central Park, police said. A knife was recovered, sources said.
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- Alleged killer Vincent Pinkney, 25, has a lengthy rap sheet and 11 arrests on robbery, assault and other charges
- He is accused of stabbing a Columbia grad student to death and wounding tourist in mad crime spree
- Davide Giri, 30, a PhD candidate in computer science at Columbia University, was stabbed to death
- Italian tourist, Robert Malastina, 27, was wounded in Central Park just 15 minutes after the murder
- Pinkney was arrested after threatening another man, 29, who was walking in the park with his girlfriend
- Police said Pinkney, who is a member of Bloods gang off-shoot, Everybody Killas
- The fatal stabbing took place just a block from where Bernard College student Tessa Majors was killed in 2019
- NYC murders have shot up by 42 per cent since 2019, and overall crime this year is up by more than 3 per cent