New Yorker charged with knife murders

A man accused of a 28-hour stabbing rampage in New York shouted that he was the victim of a "set-up" as he was led from a police station.

Ukrainian-born Maksim Gelman, 23, was charged in Brooklyn criminal court with stabbing to death his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother. He then attacked strangers, hijacked cars and ran over and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said.

He was captured on a subway train beneath Times Square. Gelman pounded on the driver's door, demanding that he be let in.

Then he stabbed a passenger in the head before two policemen who had been riding with the driver wrestled him to the ground.

Gelman's lawyer described him as "calm" and "rational".

"He's very concerned about the nature of the charges. There are many things he wants to discuss about what happened."