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.

A man has been taken into custody after allegedly killing three people in an apparent unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan, authorities said. Ramon Rivera, an undomiciled man of 51 years old, was charged on Monday with three counts of murder in the first degree, according to the New York Police Department.