MoMA Stab Suspect Nabbed in Philadelphia
Gary Cabana, who’s suspected of getting stabbed two front-desk staff at New York’s Museum of Trendy Artwork on March 12, was arrested March 15 in Philadelphia, in accordance to the New York Police Division. Cabana is alleged to have perpetrated the assault, which left the 2 twenty-four-year-old staffers with non-life-threatening accidents, after having been denied entry owing to 2 previous incidences of disruptive habits on his half. The sixty-year-old arrived on the museum’s movie desk Saturday afternoon as guests have been queuing to attend a screening of the 1938 Howard Hawks–directed screwball basic Bringing Up Child. When advised {that a} letter asserting the revocation of his membership had been despatched out the day gone by, Cabana departed, solely to return, leap over the desk, and start knifing the helpless staffers earlier than fleeing.
MoMA was evacuated instantly after the incident and remained closed the following day as Cabana remained at giant, posting erratic texts to Instagram. He stated that “NYC has turned in to a bunch of MIND-YO-BIDNESS PUSSIES,” citing as proof the truth that “not one individual adopted me as I run down 53td st [sic] with a bloody face from the place the safety hit me with a chunk of lucite. . . .” His personal enterprise was sharply curtailed on his arrest early Tuesday morning on the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Philadelphia, from which he was led in cuffs. He’s moreover suspected of getting set a small fireplace in his resort room at a close-by Greatest Western earlier within the day.
Cabana, whose final identified tackle is a Midtown Manhattan residence for the homeless, the mentally unwell, and people residing with HIV/AIDS, has no prior arrests. Tina Varney, a buddy since school days, advised Gothamist that Cabana had lengthy battled psychological sickness and had spiraled after dropping his job as an usher on Broadway through the pandemic, turning into more and more paranoid as loneliness closed in. “Once they stated I couldn’t go upstairs to see STARRY STARYY [sic] NIGHT EVER AGAIN,” he wrote on social media Saturday, “I simply misplaced it.”