• 30 hours – the period key suspect Maksim Gelman was on the run

• three people were killed as a result of fatal stabbings in the NYC area; three others were attacked
• one more person was killed in a hit-and-run accident by the serial stabber while he was trying to escape

• four cars stolen by the suspect while on the run, including two carjackings
• many death threats against those who got in Gelman’s crazed way
• 100’s of police officers were hunting him down the entire time source

• » A man who went berzerk: Lead suspect Gelman, a 23-year-old from the Sheepshead Bay area of Brooklyn who had a criminal record, reportedly killed his stepfather, his girlfriend and her mother, and proved to be a danger to anyone who got into his way. The situation ended quite dramatically in the subway system, with Gelman hiding in the system, eventually getting on a train near Penn Station, stabbing a man in one of the rail cars, and eventually getting caught by an army of police officers, some with machine guns, under Times Square. What might be a normal episode of “Law & Order” makes for a dramatic, pulse-raising real-life experience.

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