Serial Stabbing Suspect Indicted For UES Knifing: DA

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted a man for attempted murder after a stabbing of a homeless man in an Upper East Side playground last year, according to officials.

The accused stabber, Trevon Murphy, was also indicted last year for two other stabbings of unhoused New Yorkers.

“Today’s indictment is the result of our steadfast commitment to track down every piece of evidence and bring charges in a third attack by the same defendant on unhoused New Yorkers," said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "Unhoused individuals deserve the same dignity and safety as anyone else in our city, and we will continue to thoroughly investigate and prosecute all three of these disturbing attacks.”

Murphy is said to have stabbed a homeless 28-year-old man in Stanley Isaacs Playground on the Upper East Side last July, police claim, saying that the stab to the stomach came while the victim was sleeping at about 3:30 a.m.

That Upper East Side attack was the third in a series of stabbings targeting unhoused New Yorkers that Murphy stands accused of.

Murphy was previously indicted for stabbing a 34-year-old homeless man in the West Village and a 59-year-old in East Midtown earlier last July, officials said.

The 34-year-old victim later died from his injuries, police said.