A Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department employee vacationing in New York City was stabbed inside a Macy\u2019s bathroom while she was changing her 9-month-old daughter\u2019s diaper on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n
The woman and her husband were shopping with their baby in Herald Square before stopping in the West 34th Street Macy\u2019s restroom at 3:15 p.m. A homeless woman identified by police as Kerri Aherne, 43, lunged at the mother inside the bathroom, stabbing her in the back several times and slashing her arm, NYPD Sgt. Kevin Sheehan said. <\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s baby was not hurt. The two women did not know each other and there was no prior interaction or dispute, Sheehan said. <\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s husband, who was nearby and heard the disturbance, rushed into the restroom and restrained the assailant until officers arrived, Sheehan said. The victim\u2019s husband is also a LASD employee, according to a statement from the department. Their specific roles were not disclosed. <\/p>\n
Paramedics took the woman to Bellevue Hospital, where she was treated and is expected to survive, according to Sheehan. <\/p>\n
The knife used in the attack was recovered at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n
Macy\u2019s confirmed the incident in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened about the incident that took place today, as the safety of our customers and colleagues is our top priority,\u201d a company spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department employee vacationing in New York City was stabbed inside a Macy\u2019s bathroom…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[630,39559,1582,276,204454,9224,8141,71681,2961,224,5337,106902,204456,7207,78127,204455,11004,2450,7307,11459],"class_list":{"0":"post-443937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-baby","9":"tag-bathroom","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-department-employee","13":"tag-husband","14":"tag-incident","15":"tag-kevin-sheehan","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-macy","20":"tag-nypd-sgt","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-restroom","23":"tag-sheriff-employee","24":"tag-statement","25":"tag-thursday","26":"tag-victim","27":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115710878261035047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}