The NYPD said a man who police said stabbed two employees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York was arrested early Tuesday morning in Philadelphia.
The NYPD identified the suspect in Saturday’s stabbing as Gary Cabana, 60, and released a video he says shows him attacking workers at a museum. Mr. Cabana was denied entry to the museum after his membership was revoked.
The victims of the attack, a 24-year-old woman with a stab wound to the back and neck and a 24-year-old man with a stab wound to the left collarbone, were later reported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, police said.
“Gary Cabana: We’re not looking for him anymore,” NYPD Detective Hubert Reyes said by phone shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday. “Apparently, he was detained in Philadelphia.
Detective Reyes said he had no further information about the arrest, including what charges Mr. Cabana was detained on. The Philadelphia Police Department could not be reached for comment early Tuesday morning.
The arrest was previously reported Steve Keely, Fox News Philadelphia affiliate journalist. He said that Mr. Cabana was arrested outside the Greyhound bus station at 1:30 am.
In a video released by the NYPD after the stabbing, a man, identified by the department as Mr. Boar, is seen bursting through the museum’s revolving door and climbing over a wooden counter, knife in hand, cornering three officers at a table. As they hide underneath him, he starts poking and brandishing his knife.
John Miller, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism, later told reporters that Mr. Cabana was a regular visitor to the Museum of Modern Art and was “known to the department” before he was stabbed in two previous incidents. in the same area.
But he did not have “an extensive dossier or any record of arrests that we know of,” Mr. Miller said.
Mr. Cabana remained at large for several days after the stabbing. On Sunday, he posted his version of what happened at the museum on social media, writing at one point that he was “provoked” by a woman who tried to silence him as he laughed during the film.
The NYPD later said they were aware of these reports and were investigating them.
Mr Cabana’s last known address was an apartment building in Midtown Manhattan that offers shelter for the homeless, the mentally ill and those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, police said.