Tag: Assaults

Man Charged in Grand Central Stabbings Slashed Inmate, Officials Say

A Bronx man facing attempted murder charges after he stabbed two girls at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day slashed a fellow Rikers Island detainee in the head and face on Thursday, seriously injuring him, according to Correction Department officials. It was not clear how the man, Steven Hutcherson, had obtained the 1.5-inch ceramic blade […]

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Man Accused in Grand Central Stabbing Had Repeated Run-Ins With Police

The man who stabbed two teenage sisters in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day had encountered the police at least 15 times this year and recently was taken to a Bronx hospital for psychological evaluation, Police Department records show. Manhattan prosecutors charged the man, Steven Hutcherson, 36, with attempted murder and assault as hate crimes […]

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Man Charged With Hate Crimes in Stabbing of 2 Teens at Grand Central

A Bronx man faces charges of attempted murder and assault as hate crimes after using an anti-white slur before stabbing two teenage sisters at a restaurant in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day, according to officials and court records. The girls, 16 and 14, were visiting New York from Paraguay and were with their parents […]

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Jurors Find San Francisco Homeless Man Not Guilty in Pipe Beating

A homeless man who beat a former San Francisco city official with a metal pipe was found not guilty of assault charges on Friday, capping a case that had drawn national attention as a symbol of the city’s crime and homelessness problems until a public defender unearthed a surprising back story. The defendant, Garret Allen […]

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Kendra’s Law Was Meant to Prevent Violence. It Failed Hundreds of Times.

After John Skeene served prison time for beating his mother to death with a chair leg, after he attacked a man with a radiator cover and threatened to murder his therapist, New York State placed him in its gold-standard program for treating mentally ill people at risk of committing violence. The program, which grew out […]

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Women at Fast-Growing Realty Firm Say They Were Drugged and Assaulted

The closing night party at the annual conference of eXp Realty was — in the company’s own words — “epic.” The $2 billion company is one of the fastest growing brokerages in the world, with nearly 90,000 agents. And on this night in October, eXp was showing off. Inside the Omnia nightclub at Caesar’s Palace […]

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As Israel Weighs Honoring Oct. 7 Victims, Exhibit Memorializes Trance Festival

A backgammon set suspended midgame. Tents and folding picnic chairs dotted among the trees. A psychedelic dance floor with downtempo and chillout trance playing in the background as video screens show images of flushed, ecstatic young people moving to a silent beat. The items, salvaged from the Oct. 7 “Tribe of Nova” trance festival at […]

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Majors Urged Ex-Girlfriend Not to Seek Aid After Head Wound, Jury Hears

The actor Jonathan Majors implored his former girlfriend not to seek medical help after she sustained a head injury in an unspecified incident in London last year, telling her, “I fear you have no perspective of what could happen if you go to the hospital.” The comment was among several included in previously undisclosed text […]

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Jonathan Majors’s Ex-Girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, Tells Jurors He Had Explosive Rage

Jonathan Majors’s ex-girlfriend testified Tuesday that he regularly screamed at her and once hurled household items at her hard enough to dent the wall near where she stood. The woman, Grace Jabbari, described more than half a dozen episodes that began in December 2021, months into her relationship with Mr. Majors, an actor who had […]

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Jonathan Majors Assault Trial Begins With Opening Statements

Jonathan Majors, an actor whom Marvel had expected to anchor its tent-pole superhero franchise, manipulated, threatened and finally assaulted his ex-girlfriend inside a for-hire car in Manhattan, prosecutors said on Monday. Mr. Majors’s lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, argued that it was her client who was assaulted in the March incident and that it was he who […]

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Inmate Charged in Stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 Times, U.S. Says

An inmate has been charged with attempted murder for stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 times last week at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona said on Friday. The inmate, John Turscak, 52, is accused of stabbing Mr. Chauvin with an improvised knife on Nov. 24. Mr. Turscak told investigators that […]

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6 Former Jail Officers Charged in Death of West Virginia Inmate

Six former correctional officers at a West Virginia jail are facing federal charges in the death of an inmate who was assaulted by a group of guards and died last year, the Justice Department said Thursday. The inmate, Quantez Burks, 37, had been at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., for less than a […]

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54 Severely Mentally Ill People Moved Off N.Y.C. Streets, Adams Says

Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that New York City had made progress in helping homeless people who are severely mentally ill get connected to treatment and housing. The mayor has made addressing mental illness a priority after a series of random, high-profile attacks involving homeless people. On Wednesday, a year after announcing a plan […]

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Jonathan Majors, Film Career in the Balance, Faces Trial in Assault Case

An actor who was on the precipice of superstardom when Manhattan prosecutors accused him of assaulting his then-girlfriend is set to go on trial Wednesday, seeking to keep his career alive in an unusual proceeding that is expected to attract national attention. The actor, Jonathan Majors, was charged in March with misdemeanor assault and harassment. […]

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2 Shot on Subway Train During Evening Rush in Brooklyn, Police Say

A gunman shot a 17-year-old boy and a man in his 40s inside a moving subway car as it approached a station in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood during the evening rush hour on Tuesday, the police said. The shooting occurred just after 5:30 p.m. on a northbound C train as it pulled into the Ralph Avenue […]

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Stabbing of Derek Chauvin Raises Questions About Inmate Safety

The stabbing on Friday of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020, at a special unit inside a Tucson, Ariz., prison is the latest in a series of attacks against high-profile inmates in the troubled, short-staffed federal Bureau of Prisons. The assault comes less than five months after […]

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The Stabbing of Derek Chauvin: What We Know

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, was stabbed at a federal prison in Arizona on Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. No details were immediately available on his condition, but one of the people with knowledge of the incident […]

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Donors Give Over €300,000 for Immigrant Who Intervened in Dublin Stabbing

In the wake of a knife attack in Dublin this past week that sparked Ireland’s worst anti-immigrant violence in recent memory, people in the country and beyond are celebrating a Brazilian immigrant who intervened to end the assault. An online fund-raiser set up to “Buy Caio Benicio a pint,” a standard token of appreciation in […]

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Rioters Clash With Police in Dublin After Children Hurt in Knife Attack

Three young children and a woman in her 30s were injured near a school in Dublin on Thursday, the police said, in what the country’s justice minister described as “an appalling attack.” A suspect in the case was in custody, according to a spokeswoman for the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. The police said […]

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New York State Leans on Hospitals to Close Gaps in Social Safety Net

For years, the New York State Office of Mental Health has maintained a detailed database for sharing the psychiatric histories of people who rely on the social safety net — a tool that, when used correctly, can ensure the state’s most vulnerable people receive adequate care. But the database, known as PSYCKES, was not consistently […]

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5 Takeaways From a Times Investigation of New York’s Social Safety Net

New York City’s social safety net has repeatedly failed to prevent mentally ill people from unraveling on the streets and committing random acts of violence. It is a problem that generations of city leaders have tried and failed to solve. It became a priority for Mayor Eric Adams two weeks after he took office, when […]

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Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes

The last breakdown of Marcus Gomez began in full view of the people whose job it was to stop it. First, Mr. Gomez, a slight 45-year-old who was homeless and had long lived with schizophrenia, started hearing voices. Then he stripped off his clothes and stalked naked through the halls of his transitional housing program. […]

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Ohio Man Who Attacked Officers on Jan. 6 Gets Nearly 5 Years in Prison

An Ohio man who assaulted law enforcement officers during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and who the Justice Department said became a “one-man misinformation machine” as he spread lies online about what occurred that day, was sentenced on Thursday to four years and 10 months in prison. The man, Kenneth Joseph […]

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In San Francisco, He Was Attacked by a Homeless Man. But Was There More to the Story?

San Francisco counts its homeless population once every two years, usually on a single night in January. The most recent “point in time count,” in 2022, recorded 7,754 homeless people, of whom 4,397 were the unsheltered people referred to in the lawsuit. While these numbers haven’t changed much since 2017, the total number of people […]

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Former C.I.A. Officer Pleads Guilty to Sexual Abuse Charges

A former C.I.A. officer who worked at the American Embassy in Mexico City pleaded guilty on Tuesday to drugging and sexually assaulting more than two dozen women over a period of 14 years, the Justice Department said. Under an arrangement with prosecutors, the former officer, Brian Jeffrey Raymond of La Mesa, Calif., pleaded guilty in […]

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Former State Department Official Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Jan. 6 Attack

A former U.S. Marine who served in the Trump administration as a low-level State Department aide was sentenced on Friday to nearly six years in prison for his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The former aide, Federico G. Klein, of Falls Church, Va., was a State Department employee when […]

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Murder Suspect Who Escaped From Police at D.C. Hospital Is Recaptured

The authorities on Thursday recaptured a murder suspect who the police say escaped from a Washington, D.C., hospital nearly two months ago by assaulting an officer and fleeing, with a handcuff dangling from one arm. The suspect, Christopher Haynes, 30, was caught “without incident” about 10:30 a.m. Thursday by a fugitive task force led by […]

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6-Year-Old Boy Dead in Anti-Muslim Attack Near Chicago, Police Say

A man who targeted a 6-year-old boy and his mother for being Muslims brutally attacked them with a military-style knife, killing the boy and wounding the mother at a residence outside Chicago on Saturday, the authorities said. The boy, who was stabbed 26 times with a serrated knife with a seven-inch blade, was pronounced dead […]

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Teacher Is Killed in Knife Attack at School in France

A man armed with a knife killed a teacher and seriously injured two other people at a school in northern France on Friday, an assault that deeply disturbed the country and that officials described as an Islamist terror attack. The stabbing took place at the Gambetta-Carnot public school in Arras, a town of about 42,000 […]

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Sergio Brown, Ex-N.F.L. Player, Taken Into Custody in Mother’s Death

The former N.F.L. defensive back Sergio Brown was taken into custody by the San Diego police on Tuesday in connection with the death of his mother last month, said the police in Maywood, Ill. According to the police, Brown re-entered the country from Mexico and was being held in San Diego before extradition to Illinois, […]

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