NYC Museum of Modern Art stabbing suspect arrested in Philly after setting hotel fire: Police

He was caught by officers at a Middle Metropolis bus terminal after they are saying he set hearth to a lodge room in Spring Backyard.

Surveillance video from the Museum of Fashionable Artwork exhibits the second the person leaped over a reception desk and stabbed two workers as they tried to flee Saturday.

The video launched by New York Metropolis police exhibits a person police recognized as 60-year-old Gary Cabana getting into the museum foyer by a revolving door then climbing onto the desk and leaping over it as a person carrying what seems to be a walkie-talkie tries in useless to cease him.

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The person, sporting a black wool hat and a surgical masks, approaches three workers who’re trapped within the small area and stabs one in every of them – a 24-year-old lady who is ready to run away seconds later – although not earlier than she is stabbed once more within the again.

The attacker then stabs the second worker, a 24-year-old male, as the person with the walkie-talkie hurls a pocket book at him. That seems to distract the attacker lengthy sufficient for the second sufferer to flee. The third worker might be seen getting up from the bottom after the attacker runs away.

In line with police, Cabana was denied entrance Saturday for earlier incidents of disorderly conduct. John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, stated his membership had been revoked for 2 separate incidents of disorderly conduct on the museum in current days.

A letter informing Cabana of his expired membership had been despatched out Friday, however he got here to the museum Saturday saying he supposed to see a movie there, in response to police.

He then turned upset and stabbed the museum workers within the again, collarbone and the again of neck, Miller stated. They have been rushed inside minutes to the hospital.

Miller stated Saturday that the video confirmed which method the suspect went after leaving the museum. Police shared pictures of Cabana late Saturday night time, asking for the general public’s assist discovering him.

The division had no file of a earlier arrest for the person.

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As New York Metropolis police started their manhunt for Cabana, investigators in Philadelphia stated he made his method right here.

At round 6 p.m. Monday, Philadelphia police and the fireplace division have been known as to the Finest Western on the 1200 block of Vine Road for the report of a hearth.

As soon as on the scene, firefighters extinguished a hearth inside a fifth-floor lodge room.

The fireplace induced in depth harm to the room.

“The fireplace division nearly instantly deemed the fireplace was an arson,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small stated.

Investigators decided who checked into that room they usually additionally reviewed exterior surveillance cameras on the property.

Small stated the individual matched the outline of the MoMA stabbing suspect.

Philadelphia police and the NYPD shared info, with Central Detectives alerting New York authorities that their suspect is now believed to be in Philly.

“They received info that this particular person was suicidal and was affected by psychological well being points. We realized he was probably armed and really harmful,” Small stated.

A name went out on police radio.

“He additionally frequents bus and practice stations and must be thought of armed and harmful. As soon as once more from Central Detectives, the male needed for arson at 1212 Vine can also be needed for a stabbing in New York Metropolis. We’re on the lookout for a 60-year-old white male,” the police scanner stated.

Police in Middle Metropolis checked the Greyhound bus terminal at tenth and Filbert streets the place they discovered him sleeping on a bench.

He was taken into custody with out incident. He was transported to police headquarters at Broad and Callowhill streets.

Small stated they’re in contact with the NYPD.

“We do not know why he got here to Philadelphia,” Small stated.

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

No accidents have been reported within the hearth on the Philadelphia Finest Western lodge.

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The Related Press contributed to this report.