Overview
- A 38-year-old visitor was stabbed multiple times in a seventh-floor restroom at the flagship store around 3 p.m. and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
- NYPD identified the suspect as Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, who was taken into custody at the scene and charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
- Investigators say the victim and suspect did not know each other and there was no prior confrontation.
- The victim was changing her 10-month-old child when the attack occurred, the baby was unharmed, and the victim’s husband restrained the assailant until officers arrived.
- The investigation continues and court processing is pending, and the incident follows a separate unprovoked assault reported at the same store on Nov. 19.