knife attack

A family is shaken after an 11-year-old was robbed in a Queens school bathroom by a young person who snuck inside and pointed a knife at the boy’s chest. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A family is shaken after an 11-year-old was robbed in a Queens school bathroom by another young person who snuck inside and pointed a knife at the boy’s chest. Police said the armed and unidentified individual gained entry to Robert A. Van Wyck Junior High School on Wednesday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. Once inside, the suspect found the 11-year-old...

A family is shaken after an 11-year-old was robbed in school by a young person who snuck into his school with a knife. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The search is on for an armed assailant wanted in connection with two crimes, including getting into a middle school and threatening a student with a knife. Police said the knife-wielding individual, described by the Department of Education as a young person, pointed the knife at the 11-year-old’s chest inside a bathroom at Robert A. Van Wyck Junior High...

Japanese police have arrested a man who injured 10 passengers with a knife on a commuter train in Tokyo.

A man armed with a knife killed three people and wounded several others at the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France.

Paris police have opened a terrorism investigation after two people were stabbed near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo. Islamic extremists attacked the offices in 2015, killing 12 people

French authorities say a terrorism investigation has been opened into a knife attack that wounded two people outside the former Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo

A Brooklyn man accused of attacking NYPD officers in June, including stabbing an officer in the neck and taking that officer’s gun to shoot his partner in the hand and fire at other officers, was formally charged Wednesday. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

The man accused of the knife assault on an NYPD officer in Brooklyn early June told a medical worker at Kings County Hospital that he killed two police officers and that his “religion made me do it,” according to federal prosecutors. This latest development comes on the same day that a federal indictment Wednesday was returned in Brooklyn federal court…

The suspect boarded the subway in midtown with a large knife; riders called the police and the train was stopped at 72nd Street, where the victim was knifed while in line for the MetroCard machine

A woman who was at an MTA MetroCard machine at an Upper West Side subway station was stabbed in the back in a random attack by a stranger, who then took off, police said. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

The suspect boarded the subway in midtown with a large knife; riders called the police and the train was stopped at 72nd Street, where the victim was knifed while in line for the MetroCard machine

A woman who was at an MTA MetroCard machine at an Upper West Side subway station was stabbed in the back in a random attack by a stranger, who then took off, police said. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Authorities investigating Wednesday night’s stabbing of an NYPD officer in Brooklyn are looking into whether it was a terror-inspired attack, law enforcement sources said Thursday. Jonathan Dienst has the latest.

French authorities have opened a terrorism inquiry after a man wielding a knife killed two people and wounded five others as residents of a town south of Lyon shopped for food amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown

A Japanese court has sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 disabled people and injuring two dozen others in the deadliest mass attack in post World War II Japan

A 31-year-old mother was attacked and cut in the face after her child vomited on an MTA bus, according to the NYPD. Police say the victim was on the bus with her kids on Tuesday evening when one of her children got sick and threw up, resulting in the bus being pulled from service. That’s when a woman approached...

French prosecutors said a knife attack on Friday that left one man dead and two women injured in a park in the Paris area is being treated as terror-related. In a statement Saturday, they said investigations over the past few hours revealed that the assailant, who was shot dead by police, had been radicalized and had prepared the attack in…

Ithaca police say a person was shot dead in the lobby of police headquarters after an officer was attacked early Saturday. The attacker was armed with a large knife, the Ithaca Police Department said in a release. The officer is being treated at a hospital for minor injuries. No other details have been released as police continue to investigate. Police…