GUILTY: Serial Stabber Pleads To Murder, UES Stabbing, Says DA

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The man accused of stabbing three homeless New Yorkers, including a man sleeping in an Upper East Side Playground and another who died in the West Village, has pleaded guilty to the crime, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Trevon Murphy pleaded guilty to one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder and will face a sentence of 30 years-to-life in state prison, prosecutors said.

“Trevon Murphy brutally murdered one unhoused individual and critically injured two others in a series of late-night attacks,” said Manhattan District Attorney Bragg. “Those who are unhoused already face extreme hardships and vulnerability, and their safety should not be in jeopardy.”

Murphy admitted to the serial stabbings which started on July 5, 2022 in the West Village's Hudson River Park at about 3 a.m., according to officials

The victim, a 34-year-old man sleeping on a bench, was stabbed in the abdomen and soon died in Bellevue Hospital later, police said.

On July 9, Murphy targeted a man in East Midtown on Madison Avenue and East 49th Street, where he stabbed a 59-year-old in the abdomen after staring at him for 20 minutes, according to prosecutors.

Murphy then stabbed a homeless 28-year-old man in Stanley Isaacs Playground on the Upper East Side on July 11.

The serial stabber later told officer that he stabbed each victim in the lower abdomen on purpose, calling the location the "stabber's choice," prosecutors said.

Murphy will be officially sentenced on Feb. 28, according to Bragg's office.