The man accused of killing three people in a stabbing spree Monday had been released from New York City jail a month earlier and was free on bail for other alleged crimes in New Jersey, records showed.

Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody after he was found with blood on his clothes and two kitchen knives, authorities said.

NEW YORK (AP) — A man fatally stabbed three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, carrying out a series of random attacks without uttering a word to his victims, officials said.

Three random stabbings in New York City on Monday left two people dead. Police believe the attacks were all carried out by the same suspect, who is in custody.

A homeless man with an extensive criminal record is accused of going on a bloody rampage during a deadly stabbing spree in Manhattan on Monday, prosecutors said. Ramon Rivera, 51, was arraigned Tuesday on three counts of murder for allegedly stabbing three people to death in a series of unprovoked attacks

Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody and has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbings of three people in a string of random attacks

The suspect in a random New York City stabbing spree has been arrested after leaving three people dead Monday. Ramon Rivera, a 51-year-old homeless man, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder,

A man was taken into custody on Monday after allegedly killing three people in an apparently unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan, authorities said.