NYPD releases shocking video of stabbing attack at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art

The New York Police Division on Sunday launched video exhibiting the second {that a} man allegedly stabbed two staff at New York Metropolis’s Museum of Fashionable Artwork over the weekend.

Gary Cabana, 60, was apparently upset that his membership card to the Manhattan museum was expired when he jumped over a reception desk on Saturday and stabbed the 2 staff within the again, collarbone, and again of the neck, police stated.

“He turned upset about not being allowed entrance after which jumped over the reception desk and proceeded to assault and stab two staff of the museum a number of occasions,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller stated throughout a press convention. 

NYPD IDENTIFIES SUSPECT WHO STABBED 2 EMPLOYEES AT MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO

The video released by police reveals Cabana – carrying a surgical masks – coming into the museum foyer by way of a revolving door. He then jumps over-the-counter towards three staff as a person carrying what seems to be a walkie-talkie frantically makes an attempt to throw objects on the assailant. 

Cabana repeatedly stabbed two staff behind the desk, each aged 24, who had scrambled for canopy whereas trapped within the small area, the video reveals. 

After the assault, each victims – a person, and a girl — and the third particular person behind the counter managed to flee. The victims had been in steady situation at Bellevue Hospital later within the day.

The midtown Manhattan museum evacuated its patrons Saturday afternoon and remained closed on Sunday. Customers on social media posted that museum-goers ran for the exits in confusion and chaos after the stabbing.

Yuichi Shimada, who was current on the time of the assault, tweeted he was on the second ground when a pair all of a sudden got here operating towards him, and he heard safety guards’ radios all through the museum loudly asserting one thing on the similar time.

TWO STABBED AT NEW YORK CITY’S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: OFFICIALS

“It was chaotic, partly as a result of it was snowing, with a gaggle of younger girls in a panic and crying,” Shimada stated. “Not being good with claustrophobia myself, I headed for the exit early.”

Cabana managed to run off after the stabbings. On Sunday morning, police requested the general public for assist in discovering him.

Miller famous that Cabana’s membership had been revoked for 2 separate incidents of disorderly conduct on the museum in latest days. 

A letter informing the suspect of his expired membership had been despatched out Friday, however he got here to the museum Saturday saying he meant to see a movie there, Miller added.

MoMA, based in 1929, is one in all New York Metropolis’s prime vacationer points of interest and drew greater than 700,000 guests in 2020. Its assortment of recent artwork contains “The Starry Night time” by Vincent van Gogh and works by Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin.

Fox Information’ Pilar Arias and the Related Press contributed to this report.