Two men were killed and a woman left fighting for her life after a homeless New York City man allegedly committed a series of random stabbings, police said.

NEW YORK (AP) — A man carried out a string of stabbings across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, killing two people and critically wounding a third without uttering a word to his victims, officials said.

A suspect is in custody following three random stabbings in New York City on Monday morning that left two people dead and another critically injured, police said.Police said a 51-year-old man was apprehended following the third attack.