SEPTA transit police shoot stabbing suspect outside City Hall

SEPTA transit police shot a man outside City Hall who allegedly attacked three people with a knife — including a woman working as an unarmed security guard for SEPTA — at a nearby subway station, authorities said.

Around 8 p.m., SEPTA transit police responded to the Walnut-Locust Station on the Broad Street Line for a report of a man attacking people with one or two knives, authorities said.

A woman working for Scotlandyard, a private firm contracted by SEPTA to bolster security in the transit system, was stabbed in the neck, authorities said.

“She saw the male with a knife, and that male then stabbed her,” SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said in an email.

Transit police confronted the man, described as in his mid-40s, outside City Hall and one officer deployed a Taser, but that did not stop the suspect, authorities said. One of the officers then shot the suspect three times.

Both the security guard and the suspect were transported to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The woman was listed in stable condition with a stab wound to her neck, police said.

The suspect was reported to be in surgery, and a condition was not immediately available Monday night.

Two people at the subway station suffered minor injuries.