Video shows suspect who attacked, stabbed 2 employees at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

The video launched by New York Metropolis police reveals a person police recognized as 60-year-old Gary Cabana getting into the museum foyer via 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.

Police have been nonetheless looking for Cabana as of Sunday morning.

The person, sporting a black wool hat and a surgical masks, approaches three staff who’re trapped within the small area and stabs one in every of them – a younger girl 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 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 will be seen getting up from the bottom after the attacker runs away.

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In accordance 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 John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, stated his membership had been revoked for 2 separate incidents of disorderly conduct on the museum in current days.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 staff 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 means the suspect went after leaving the museum. Police shared images of Cabana late Saturday evening, asking for the general public’s assist discovering him.

The division has no report of a earlier arrest for the person.

The museum did not instantly reply to an emailed request for touch upon the incident, however stated on social media that it might be closed to the general public Sunday.

The midtown Manhattan museum evacuated its patrons Saturday afternoon. Yuichi Shimada, a museumgoer current on the time of the assault, tweeted he was on the second ground when a pair abruptly got here operating towards him, and he heard safety guards’ radios all through the museum loudly asserting one thing on the similar time.

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

Shimada was diverted to the facet on his means out as a stretcher was hurriedly introduced in. Police autos and ambulances, emergency lights flashing, thronged exterior the museum as dozens of patrons hurried away.

Mayor Eric Adams tweeted Saturday night he’d been briefed on the assault and stated the victims’ accidents weren’t life-threatening.

“We’re grateful for the fast work of our first responders,” Adams, a former NYPD captain, stated.

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