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A New York man pleaded not guilty Friday to attempted murder and other charges in what police have claimed was a mostly unprovoked series of stabbings across the city this week.

A New York man pleaded not guilty Friday to attempted murder and other charges in what police have claimed was a mostly unprovoked series of stabbings across the city this week.

At least five people have been stabbed in a spree of random attacks in Queens, police officials said Wednesday.

"We have an unidentified individual who's walking around the street randomly stabbing people with a hunting knife. There's no connection between individuals, and it seems to be unprovoked," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.

Hooded hospital worker Jermain Rigueur, 27, from Queens, was arrested by police on Wednesday after he was accused of randomly targeting at least five victims in New York

NEW YORK — The suspect in a string of at least five unprovoked knife attacks on New Yorkers was caught Wednesday night, according to police sources. They’d raced to find a masked “menace” whose rampage lasted nine days — with the suspect laughing in the face of one of the victims. “We’re going to find him and we’re going to do that with your help,” Police Commissioner Edward Caban vowed at a ...

By Mark Morales, Brammhi Balarajan and Celina Tebor, CNN

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) – The suspect who allegedly stabbed five people in a spree of random attacks in Queens was taken into custody Wednesday evening, a police source said. Members of a task force spotted Jermain Rigueur, 27, near Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, sources told PIX11 News. Rigueur worked as a Community Liason at Woodhull […]

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Cops announced on Wednesday that they were hunting a suspect who had stabbed at least five people at whim over the past nine days.