#attempted-murder-charges

#attempted-murder-charges

A New York City judge on Wednesday ordered a mental health evaluation for a Massachusetts woman charged in the unprovoked stabbing of a tourist changing her baby's diaper in a bathroom of Macy's flagship store in midtown Manhattan around the holidays. Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, will be examined by mental health professionals to determine whether she's fit to stand trial, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

"starting to breathe on my own,"

"There was nowhere to go. I didn't have much choice, he said, adding that the knifeman asked if he wanted to die before he felt the knife in his arm. "He repeated it. Then I remember his knife going into my arm, he said. Mr Crean said the knife caught him several times as he confronted the attacker on the train. Probably not many people would've done it, he reflected on his decision to fight back. But then you're leaving people behind you vulnerable."