NYC Serial Stabber Arrested, ID'd As Hospital Greeter: NYPD, Reports
NEW YORK CITY — A hospital greeter is accused of being a serial stabber who left at least five people wounded in a bloody nine-day spree that terrorized New York City, according to police and reports.
Jermain Rigueur, 27, was arrested Wednesday in Queens, just hours after NYPD officials pleaded for the public’s help tracking down the stabber.
Rigueur, who faces a bevy of charges including attempted murder, worked as a greeter at Woodhull Hospital in Bed-Stuy, the New York Daily News first reported. A lanyard seen on the stabber’s neck in a surveillance video turned out to be an ID from the hospital, which Rigueur was wearing when he was nabbed, according to the report.
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The stabbing spree left four men and one woman — all in Queens — wounded, police said.
Many attacks carried eerie similarities, with victims recounting feeling as if they were punched from behind, only to discover they were knifed, police said. The stabber laughed in one victim’s face and otherwise was heard muttering to himself, according to police.
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The attacks culminated Wednesday in a trio of stabbings in the span of an hour, authorities said.
One further attack — a Wednesday morning stabbing on a J train in Williamsburg — is being investigated as potentially linked to the spree, police officials said.
Rigueur faces three counts of attempted murder, four counts of assault, one of attempted assault and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
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