Toddler stabbed on NY bike path Witnesses say a "madman" went on the rampage, attacking people at random on a New York bike path. A scissor-wielding homeless man has stabbed five people, including a toddler, on a bike path in New York City. Witnesses said a "madman" went on the rampage, attacking people at random near Riverside Drive in Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side, Sky News reports. Police said the homeless man attacked a 35-year-old father pushing his son in a pram, The father was stabbed the man in the chest as he attempted to protect his son, who was slashed in the arm. All of the victims are expected to survive, according to US media reports but a 36-year-old female jogger who was stabbed in the back is in a critical condition. The guy is a nut. He just took a pair of scissors and started stabbing everyone randomly, including a two to three-year-old child," a witness told the New York Post. Officers grabbed the suspect, a 43-year-old man who had been living in a Bronx shelter, and took him into custody.