A man claiming to be Lucifer slashed three people with a machete at Grand Central Station before police officers shot and killed him Saturday, April 11, authorities said.

A machete-wielding suspect attacked three people at New York City's Grand Central station before he was fatally shot by police, in an attack that diverted trains at the nation's biggest rail hub.

Jessica Tisch, who leads the New York police department, told reporters at a news conference at the station that officers, flagged down by a witness to the stabbings at about 9.40am, had encountered a...