[UPDATE] Central Park Stabbing Leaves 5 Injured

Police investigate the stabbing at the scene (Courtesy Geoffrey Croft, A Walk In The Park)

[UPDATE BELOW] A stabbing in Central Park at around 10:50 this morning left five people with minor injuries. According to an NYPD spokesman, a 30-year-old man slashed a 30-year-old woman in a wooded area off Central Park West and West 103rd Street, and in the process may have slashed himself. "It's unclear if that was an accident or intentional," the spokesman said.

Three police officers received minor injuries responding to the incident, though the spokesman declined to elaborate what they entailed. The suspect and the woman were transported to St. Luke's Hospital in stable condition, while the officers were taken to New York Cornell. The suspect is in custody.

The spokesman could not confirm a report by ABC that a four-year-old was also injured.

[UPDATE // 1:25 PM] Geoffrey Croft at A Walk In The Park reports that the pair were common-law partners, and the 4-year-old was their child, who witnessed the incident. A witness tells Croft that the man slashed his own wrists, and that the child was covered in blood. "His forearms were all bloody," the witness said of the suspect.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on December 5, 2012 1:05 PM

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Torrance4050

NY 1980s coming at us with a lead foot

Big_Al72

He was obviously just trying to prove to Bob Costas that you can do a murder-suicide with a knife also.

CMYKevin

Yaaay!

Violette Retancourt

'"It's unclear if that was an accident or intentional,' the spokesman said."

How the fuck would someone accidentally stab 4 people and himself?

RicoSoavarooski

Ambiguous between: perp slashing self accidentally slashes/cuts/stabs inflicts grievous bodily harm to others without intending to do so and "perp goes wild/snaps but retains requisite state of mind to charge him for crimes with intent" etc.
The "spokesman" is just stating the first reaction after all.

Peanut_Butter

That's what my lawyer always told me to say. Make it your story and stick to it.

"Tim Osman"

you made it a cool story, bro

theevilerone

Parent of the Year candidates!

whitecastlerock

Are the ducks okay?

brooklynRick

There is no excuse for exposing a child to that

Schmeep

"I wanted to make a New York version of Dexter" is a pretty decent excuse.

GentleGiant

Profound.

evbo

...and yet, true (despite your snark).

Peanut_Butter

Clichés are by definition true.

RicoSoavarooski

Yeah especially the ones about New Yorkers --- the whole five boroughs --- and loaded with ethnic stereotypes, that helps to render them tautologous.
`True by definition' so --- self-evidently true? Apodictic truth? Yeah that's cliches for ya. Who could ever doubt the truth of a cliche?