Overview
- Police say the slashing happened Monday evening inside Yeshiva Gevoah Toldos in Borough Park when a 22-year-old congregant allegedly cut a 14-year-old boy’s hand with a cutting instrument.
- The suspect, identified as Krybus Shimon, was taken into custody and charged with assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.
- Officials described Shimon as an “emotionally disturbed person,” and investigators have not yet established a motive or classified the case as a hate crime.
- Reports differ on medical treatment: one account says emergency medical services treated the boy at the scene while another says he refused care.
- The incident has heightened local concern because Borough Park experienced anti-Jewish vandalism earlier this year and state leaders recently increased security funding for houses of worship.