Overview
- Police say the victim was stabbed from behind in a seventh-floor restroom while changing her 10-month-old’s diaper shortly before 3 p.m.
- The victim’s husband intervened, disarmed the attacker and held her until officers arrived, according to authorities.
- Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, multiple counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
- Officials describe the attack as apparently unprovoked, the investigation is ongoing, and an arraignment was expected later Friday.
- The incident is the second reported assault inside Macy’s Herald Square in about a month, police said.