Suspect in New York MoMA Stabbing Is Arrested in Philadelphia

A suspect within the stabbing of two workers on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York over the weekend was arrested early Tuesday in Philadelphia, the New York Police Division stated.

The Police Division had recognized the suspect within the stabbing on Saturday as Gary Cabana, 60, and launched video that it stated confirmed him attacking staff on the museum. Mr. Cabana had been denied entry to the museum after his membership was revoked.

The victims of the assault — a 24-year-old girl stabbed within the again and neck and a 24-year-old man stabbed within the left collar bone — have been later listed in secure situation at Bellevue Hospital, the police stated.

“Gary Cabana: We’re now not looking for him,” Detective Hubert Reyes of the New York Police Division stated by phone shortly after 3 a.m. on Tuesday. “He’s apparently been apprehended in Philadelphia.”

Detective Reyes stated he had no additional details about the arrest, together with what expenses Mr. Cabana had been apprehended on. The Philadelphia Police Division couldn’t instantly be reached for remark early Tuesday.

The arrest was reported earlier by Steve Keeley, a journalist with a Fox Information affiliate in Philadelphia. He stated Mr. Cabana had been arrested exterior a Greyhound bus station at 1:30 a.m.

A video launched by the New York Police Division after the stabbing exhibits a person, whom the division recognized as Mr. Cabana, barreling by a revolving door on the museum and climbing throughout a counter with a knife in his hand, cornering three workers behind a desk. As they cower underneath it, he begins jabbing and swinging the knife.

John Miller, the deputy commissioner for the New York Police Division’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureaus, later instructed reporters that Mr. Cabana was a daily at MoMA however that his membership had “expired because of two incidents involving disorderly conduct right here on the museum on two separate dates in latest days.”

He didn’t have “an intensive document or any arrest information that we’re conscious of,” Mr. Miller stated.

On Sunday, Mr. Cabana appeared to submit his model of what had occurred on the museum on social media, writing at one level that he had been “triggered” by a lady who tried to silence him when he laughed throughout a movie.

The New York Police Division later stated it was conscious of these posts and was investigating them.

Mr. Cabana’s last-known tackle was a supportive housing residence in Midtown Manhattan that provides shelter for the homeless, the mentally ailing and people recognized with H.I.V./AIDS, the police stated.