"The suspect accused of stabbing a woman as she changed her child's diaper inside Macy's flagship Herald Square store on Thursday had been discharged from a local mental health hospital just hours before the violent attack, prosecutors said Friday. Kerri Aherne, 24, formerly of Tewksbury, MA, is now locked up in jail after being arraigned in New York Criminal Court on Friday night."
"In 2024, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Aherne left Massachusetts while on a temporary leave from the hospital where she had been admitted, and traveled via Uber to New York. Reportedly homeless, she eventually wound up at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Randall's Island, where she had been residing for more than a year until being released on Dec. 11, just a few hours before the violent attack in Herald Square."
Kerri Aherne, 24, allegedly stabbed a woman who was changing her child's diaper inside Macy's Herald Square seventh-floor bathroom on Dec. 11. Prosecutors say she had been discharged from a local psychiatric hospital just hours before the attack. She was arraigned in New York Criminal Court on charges including attempted murder, assault and endangering the welfare of a child, and is jailed. Aherne has a documented history of psychiatric problems, including a 2018 arrest in Massachusetts for allegedly threatening Senator Elizabeth Warren and a shooting at a police station. She had resided at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center for over a year before release.
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