Gary Cabana the man who allegedly stabbed two employees at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York was arrested today in Philadelphia after setting his hotel room on fire. According to police in Philadelphia they were called to a hotel room on fire and when they reviewed surveillance cameras they realized that the person matched that of the suspect wanted for the double stabbing at the Museum Of Modern Art over the weekend. Since the stabbings in New York Gary Cabana has been active on Instagram telling his followers that he is the victim of a frame job and bipolar. Cabana also takes aim at the Museum Of Modern Art saying there were no previous incidents that would lead to his membership being cancelled.
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The man accused of stabbing two employees inside New York’s Museum of Modern Art on Saturday was arrested in Philadelphia, police said Tuesday morning.Information on charges against Gary Cabana, 60, will be announced pending his extradition to New York, a New York Police Department spokesperson said.Cabana was arrested at a Greyhound station early Tuesday after police found him sleeping on a bench inside a station in Chinatown, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
It’s unclear whether Gary Cabana has an attorney.
The injured employees were both 24 years old, police said. One, a woman, suffered two stab wounds to the lower back and one stab wound to the back of her neck. The other, a man, was stabbed once in the left collar bone, officials said.
Both were rushed to Bellevue Hospital and are expected to survive, police said at a news conference Saturday evening
Police said Gary Cabana was a regular visitor to the museum. Immediately after the incident, police described him as wearing a black jacket and surgical mask. That description was released immediately over division radio units in the area and a search was initiated by police responding to the scene, according to NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller.
He was caught on video leaving the museum, so police knew which direction he went.Cabana is known to the NYPD, Miller said, and was wanted by the department in connection with two incidents that occurred in Midtown Manhattan, where the museum is located, prior to Saturday’s double stabbing.
Gary Cabana is also allegedly linked to an arson incident at a Best Western in Philadelphia, where a small fire was extinguished in a fifth floor hotel room Monday evening, according to police there.New York Mayor Eric Adams said he was briefed on the incident there on Saturday and his press secretary tweeted it “appears to be an isolated, criminal incident.
Gary Cabana entered the museum with the intention of attending a film, police said.
“At approximately 4:15 this afternoon, an individual entered the museum, attempted to gain entrance presenting his membership card and was denied entrance because his membership had expired,” Miller said Saturday. “His membership had expired as a result of two incidents involving disorderly conduct here at the museum on two separate dates in recent days,” he added.Upon being denied entrance, the suspect became angry, jumped over the reception desk and attacked the two employees, police said.There was ample security in the area at the time of the incident, but Miller described it as a “rapidly unfolding spontaneous incident.”
In videos shared on social media, dozens of people are seen leaving the museum in a large crowd.”We weren’t told what was going on, just that they had to close the exhibits immediately,” MoMA patron Tina Rook told CNN. “A woman did say it was an emergency,” Rook said, adding the whole incident was handled very well by police and museum officials.In a series of tweets, MoMA patron Yuichi Shimada described a chaotic scene, saying there were “many police vehicle and ambulances.””It seemed that everyone had been ordered to evacuate, and the other guests came out one after another,” Shimada tweeted.”It was chaotic, partly because it was snowing, with a group of young women in a panic and crying, and partly because people were taking pictures on their cell phones and playing live on their phones too,” Shimada said.
The museum was closed for the rest of the weekend and on Sunday, said it would reopen Tuesday.”Thank you for your incredible support,” a tweet from the museum said.
The facility was due to screen the films “Paper Moon,” “Wattstax,” “Bringing Up Baby,” and “Cutting Horse” Saturday.On its website Monday, MoMA showed all film showings at the venue canceled until Thursday.
Anthony Hutchens the fifteen year old boy from Indiana is now facing adult time for the murder of six year old Grace Ross. According to police reports Anthony Hutchens allegedly molested and murdered the six year old girl at a wooded area behind the New Carlisle apartment complex where they both lived. Anthony Hutchens mother believed that her son was involved in the murder and would notify police. Anthony Hutchens would be charged with murder and child molestation.
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Nearly a year after 6-year-old Grace Ross was found dead in a wooded area near a New Carlisle apartment complex, a judge ruled that Anthony Hutchens, the boy accused of molesting and killing her, will be tried as an adult.
The ruling by St. Joseph Probate Court Magistrate Graham Polando comes after recent hearings where doctors, probation officers and Hutchens’ mother testified to whether he should remain in juvenile, or probate, court.
In a written order, Polando concluded several factors suggested the teen’s case would best be handled in adult court. Those factors included:
Evidence of deliberating about the crime either before or after, suggested by how remote the location of where Ross’ body was found.
Taking steps to hide evidence such as his bloody clothes.
The time it would have taken to both molest the girl and kill her.
The likelihood, even if small, of committing similar offenses in the futer.
Evidence of prior efforts of the accused teen’s mother to provide help and treatment for the boy’s difficulties, and that the boy seems to Polando to have squandered those efforts.
The very serious nature of the crimes alleged.
The juvenile system’s inadequacy to provide both the punishment and rehabilitation needed for someone guilty of the crimes in this case.
“If the Respondent is guilty of the offenses alleged here, he deserves more severe punishment than this Court can impose. He requires lengthier rehabilitative services than this Court can impose,” Polando wrote. “This community requires more deterrence, both for the Respondent specifically and others, juveniles included, than this Court can impose. And the Respondent must be incapacitated for a longer period than this Court can impose.”
The Tribune did not name Hutchens in previous coverage of the case, but is doing so now that he has been waived to adult court.
Polando also ruled that Hutchens will be detained in an adult correction facility while awaiting trial, and that he will be held without the possibility of release on bail.
“If the question is simply ‘Should an ASD eighth-grader be in an adult jail?’ the answer is almost certainly ‘no,’ Polando wrote. “On the other hand, if the question is ‘Should a juvenile arrestee who there is probable cause to believe molested and murdered another child be around other children?’ the answer is similarly almost certainly ‘no.'”
Ultimately, the ability to protect other detained children, given the nature of the alleged offenses, convinced Polando that Hutchens was best held in an adult facility.
According to police and prosecutors, Hutchens molested and killed Ross, whose body was found in a wooded area behind the New Carlisle apartment complex where they both lived, on March 12, 2021.
The boy’s mother, believing her son may have been involved in the girl’s death, came forward to police after Ross’ body was found.
Hutchens, who was 14 at the time, gave shifting stories when police questioned him with his mother present, according to prosecutors.
At first, he said he lost track of the girl after she followed him into the woods. He then said there was another person in the woods, and that he had been knocked unconscious before awaking next to her body. He finally said a “shadowy man” had controlled him while he strangled Grace.
Since then, proceedings were delayed as doctors and psychologists interviewed Hutchens to assess his ability to stand trial. After the teenager was deemed competent, prosecutors asked for the case to be moved to adult court due to the severity of the crimes and reports that Hutchens has a violent “mindset.”
At a Feb. 23 hearing, Craig Redman, a juvenile probation supervisor, testified that Hutchens has made several disturbing comments, including references to killing and torturing people
“I have the mind of a psychopath,” Hutchens once said, according to Redman. “Give me any object, and I will find a way to kill someone with it.”
Under questioning by the boy’s attorney, Mark James, Redman acknowledged Hutchens has never committed any actual violence in the 11 months he has been detained.
During the same hearing, Hutchens’ mother said he is on the autism spectrum, has ADHD and a sensory disorder and is “very immature for his age.”
Indiana law states a probate, or juvenile, court shall waive jurisdiction to superior, or adult, court in felony cases, “unless it would be in the best interests of the child and the safety and welfare of the community for the child to remain within the juvenile justice system.”
State law also specifies that if a juvenile is 12 or older and is accused of murder, the case should be waived unless there are compelling reasons to the contrary.
The superior court system has more severe sentences at its disposal, as sentences, or dispositions in probate courts are often focused on rehabilitation rather than punishment. A murder conviction in adult court calls for a minimum sentence of 45 years, however superior court judges can use probate court sentencing guidelines if they wish.
Hearings and records in superior court are public, while some hearings and records in probate court are confidential by law. Verdicts in probate court trials are also decided by the presiding judge or magistrate, whereas trials in superior court are decided by juries.
Brynnen Murphy is a man from Louisiana who has just been charged with multiple counts of murder for the shooting death of a pregnant woman and for throwing her 2 year old son off a bridge causing his death. According to police reports Brynnen Murphy would admit to the shooting death of Kaylen Johnson who was pregnant with his child. The woman body would be left in a wooded area. Brynnen Murphy would then drive to a bridge where he would toss the two year old child, Kaden Johnson, off a bridge. Apparently Brynnen Murphy could still hear Kaden Johnson crying as he drove away. Brynnen Murphy has reportedly confessed to the murders.
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Baton Rouge Police have arrested the boyfriend of a pregnant woman and her young son who were reported missing earlier this month.
Detectives arrested 20-year-old Brynnen Murphy, in connection to the disappearance and deaths of Kaylen Johnson and her son, Kaden Johnson.
Murphy was booked in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on two charges of first degree murder.
Family members say the boyfriend is the father of the woman’s unborn child.
Police said Murphy is not the father of the deceased 2-year-old.
The bodies believed to be that of Kaylen Johnson, 24, and her 2-year-old son Kayden were found early Monday afternoon, March 14.
Police said Murphy turned himself in Monday to the First District Precinct on Plank Road.
“Throughout the interview process, he gave us the information as to both being deceased, and the locations as to where they were,” said Sgt. Ljean McKneely, a spokesperson with BRPD.
The family of Kaylen Johnson asked for Baton Rouge Police Department to do a wellness check on March 11 since Johnson and her 2-year-old son Kayden Johnson had not been heard from since March 5.
When officers made it inside the apartment according to the arrest warrant they found no signs of foul play.
The family still tried reaching Johnson but her cell phone was disconnected and the call could not be made.
The report goes on to say, officers learned Johnson was in a relationship with Brynnen Murphy and when questioned, according to the report he denied knowing the whereabouts of Kaylen and her son.
Police said the pair are believed to have gone missing on March 5, “based off information we collected from Murphy.”
According to BRPD, there were many things that led them to believe foul play was involved.
“It was suspicious in nature. We found her car without the license plate on it. And from there, it raised an eyebrow. One of the guys made contact with him, he refused to give information, and from there, he disappeared,” said Sgt. McKneely.
Saying they were acting on a tip connected to the case, detectives started searching a wooded area along Burbank Drive near Lakeside Daiquiris around 9 a.m. Monday, March 14.
Around 12 p.m., they discovered one body, an adult, at the Burbank Drive scene. Within minutes, police found a second body along Central Thruway in Central.
BRPD’s spokesperson said there is no word yet on why Murphy killed them.
“We tried to interview him and get some information. He didn’t give us any,” said McKneely
According to the arrest warrant, Murphy contacted officers at the 1st District Police Station and was detained and transported to the VCU for detectives to conduct an interview.
The report goes on to say, Murphy led the detectives to the location of both the bodies.
“Very tough, tragic situation. Uniform officers are affected by this, homicide investigators are affected by this. Everybody in the community is affected by this,” said Sgt. McKneely.
After examining the bodies, police believe the victims could have been dead for at least a week.
Their causes of death are currently unknown, according to police, who are waiting for the autopsy.
Additional charges could be pending for Murphy as this investigation continues.
Former death row inmate Dayva Cross was murdered at Walla Walla State Prison in Washington State. Dayva Cross was originally sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and her two daughters in 1999. According to reports Dayva Cross would murder Anouchka Baldwin, Salome Holly, 18, and Amanda Baldwin, 15, in Snoqualmie Washington. A third daughter was able to escape and call police. In 2018 Washington Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional and all death sentences were commuted to life in prison without parole. Now Dayva Cross has become the victim as he was found murdered in a prison washroom.
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A man who had formerly been on death row for the 1999 murders of his wife and her two daughters was killed at Washington State Penitentiary on Sunday, state Department of Corrections officials said.
Corrections officials said Dayva Cross, 62, was pronounced dead about 1:15 p.m. after he was found in a shower, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reported.
Officials said a suspect has been identified and moved to “appropriate housing” pending further investigation.
The Walla Walla County Coroner’s office confirmed Sunday that the death is considered a homicide. Walla Walla Police Department detectives responded to the scene and are investigating.
A Department of Corrections spokesperson told the newspaper Monday afternoon that movement in the unit where Cross died remains restricted.
On March 6, 1999, after arguing with wife Anouchka Baldwin, Cross stabbed her to death along with her daughters Salome Holly, 18, and Amanda Baldwin, 15, in Snoqualmie. He was arrested after another daughter of Anouchka Baldwin’s, then 13, escaped and called police.
A King County Superior Court jury decided in 2001 that Cross should be put to death, rejecting pleas by his lawyers that he was mentally ill and should not be executed.
His death sentence was converted to life in prison when Washington’s Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that the state’s use of capital punishment was unconstitutional.
Muhammad Altantawi was sixteen years old when he murdered his mother in Michigan. According to court documents Muhammad Altantawi was upset that his mother was getting a divorce from his father and was worried that his father would suffer. Muhammad Altantawi would smother his mother before throwing her body out of a second story window and attempted to make it look like she accidentally fell. Muhammad Altantawi would be arrested, tried as an adult and convicted of murder. This teen killer would be sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison
An Oakland Circuit Court jury deliberated less than three hours Monday before finding a 20-year-old Farmington Hills man guilty of first-degree premeditated murder of his mother four years ago and trying to make it look like an accidental fall.
Jurors sat through seven days of testimony in which the prosecution portrayed Muhammad Altantawi as a scheming teenager, angry at his mother for divorcing his father.
Only 16 years old at the time, Muhammad sided with his father Bassell Altantawi, then 46. He blamed his 35-year-old mother, Nada Huranieh, with splitting up their family with her rejection of traditional Syrian and Islamic customs, such as wearing a hijab and her perceived permissive raising of his two sisters, ages 12 and 14 at the time.
He believed his mother only wanted to take his father’s 11,000-square-foot mansion and money. The parents had married in 1999.
Investigators believe Muhammad Altantawi suffocated his mother, threw her body out a second-floor window of their home about 6 a.m. on August 21, 2017, and then staged it to look like an accidental fall.
Only Huranieh and her three children were in the home that night. Bassell was ordered out of the house in 2016 after a Valentine’s Day domestic-violence incident in which he pushed his wife down some stairs. She filed for divorce the following month.
In a two-hour closing argument Monday, assistant prosecuting attorney John Skrzynski said the youth’s own lies, missteps in police interviews, phone records and scene evidence are proof he killed his mother, possibly first rendering her helpless with a chemical inhalant of some kind.
Skrzynski told jurors how:
♦Muhammad Altantawi spied on his mother the days and weeks leading up to the death and texted his father photos of receipts, including a deed to a second house she had bought and a photo of the window she fell or was pushed out.
Muhammad told police he didn’t get up until after 6 a.m. the morning his mother died, but phone records revealed he had received or made numerous calls to his father beginning at 4:30 a.m.
♦The body’s lifeless position on the ground was not consistent with a fall from the window.
♦Video from six home surveillance cameras appeared to show someone moving around the house in different rooms and “hoisting” a body out the window of a make-up room.
♦A tile-cleaning substance and bucket found on a ladder near the window would have been disturbed if Huranieh’s legs had kicked out from the rungs.
♦He changed his story on his location and times in the house when it didn’t conform with lighted rooms in the surveillance video.
♦His sister said he always showered at night but that morning she heard him showering around 6 a.m.
♦Clothes and a rubber mat were found the day of the death in a laundry room washing machine which had automatically shut off. The next day the mat had been removed and put in a plastic bag inside a hamper under clothes.
Oakland County Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic testified an autopsy revealed that Huranieh, a health club fitness instructor, was smothered with a damp cloth or towel and likely dead before ever going out the window.
But one of Altantawi’s defense lawyers, Michael Schiano, argued their young client had neither motivation nor the physical strength to accomplish a crime he described as based on nothing more than speculative theory in an otherwise “pristine” crime scene with no signs of struggle.
He noted there was “no blood, no DNA on anything, no direct evidence” linking his client to the death.
“What he is describing, including chloroform is more like a James Bond film,” Schiano said in his one-hour closing argument. “Nothing like that was ever found in the house or in her. It doesn’t exist.
“He (prosecutor) wants you to believe this or that is possible,” Schiano told the jury. “Don’t do it. Your job is to consider facts, not possibilities.”
Witnesses, including Altantawi’s sister, Aya Altantawi, now 20, who testified her brother was becoming increasingly upset about their mother – whom he called “not a good Muslim” and referenced as a “dog” on his cellphone. He was also concerned his father might go to prison for insurance fraud, aided by his mother’s pending deposition in the case.
In 2016, Bassell Altantawi was charged by the Michigan State Attorney General with Medicare fraud at his Urgent Care Clinic in Canton. That March he entered a guilty plea to counts of Medicaid fraud false claims and two counts of health care fraud, which are felonies that can carry up to four years in prison.
He was spared prison time but had his physician’s license suspended in February 2017 and was required to and did pay $277,953 in restitution, according to a spokesperson in the state attorney general office.
According to divorce filings, Altantawi – who once had an annual income in excess of $350,000 – found himself unable to work as a physician and subsequently meet support payments for his estranged wife and three children or “no longer able to support them in their lavish lifestyle” in Farmington Hills
When his mother told him two weeks before her death that she was going to send him to live with his father, Muhammad Altantawi said “You are going to get what’s coming to you.”
The offense carries life in prison without parole. Defense attorneys could not be immediately reached for comment.
A judge sentenced a Farmington Hills man convicted of killing his mom on Wednesday to at least 35 years in prison after he was found guilty by a jury in March of first-degree premeditated murder.
Muhammad Altantawi was 16 at the time he pushed his mom out of a window. After four hours, Altantawi was ultimately sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison after he was convicted in March of the 2017 murder
After the sentencing, someone from the gallery told Altantwai to “have fun rotting in prison, murderer. I hope you die there too.” More conversation erupted from the gallery but was quickly shut down by deputies in the court.
He arrived in court shortly after 1:30 p.m. without an attorney and objected to the entire pre-sentencing report, paragraph-by-paragraph. The judge ruled she would not strike anything from the report.
He also argued with the written victim impact statements, which at that time had not yet been read in court. The county prosecutor objected and said that there was no legal basis to allow the challenge of the victim impact statements.
The judge sided with the prosecution and would not allow the challenges
Altantawi was chided by the judge several times for interrupting her when she tried to rule on his challenges.
He also claimed bigotry and racism by the prosecutor’s office, which drew an immediate objection from the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, who claimed Altantawi would need mental health services.
The judge asked Altantawi about his Muslim upbringing, to which Altantawi said his family moved to the U.S. from Syria. She suggested changing the text to ‘the defendants’ parents were Muslim’ but Altantawi objected to the relevancy of it being included in the sentencing.
The judge ultimately agreed to remove the sentence completely but questioned the relationship between Altantawi and his father. She said it was pertinent because of the pending divorce.
Altantawi had been angry with his 35-year-old Nada Houranieh for divorcing his father, blaming her for causing their family to become split.
After almost two hours of challenges from Altantawi, the last of which was the omission of the word ‘road’ on his street address, his sister read an impact statement on behalf of the family asking for him to be sentenced to life in prison for ending Houranieh’s life.
She had asked that her personal impact statement not be aired.
Altantawi’s father, who had been charged with domestic violence of Houranieh, then spoke. He discussed his relationship with his wife but was chastised by the judge for discussing his son as the victim.
“You can stand by him but that’s not what a victim impact statement is about,” the judge said.
His father changed his tone, calling his wife’s death ‘tragic’ and says the prosecution manipulated his mentally-challenged daughter to testify against his son. The judge then ordered him to sit down, prompting another outburst from Altantawi.
The family then left the courtroom, which led to an outburst in the hallway. The judge ordered Altantawi to address the court one final time.
“Five years ago, I got arrested for – what I said – the worst crime, the murder of my mother,” Altantawi said, while denying he smothered and killed his mother.
According to investigators, Altantawi suffocated his mom, before throwing her out of the third-floor window of the family’s home in Farmington Hills in the summer of 2017.
Altantawi spoke again, saying that the prosecution offered him a plea deal of 10 years in prison, to which he said he was offended by, on his mother’s behalf.
“It would have allowed this first-degree murderer…to have gotten off for five more years,” he said.
Altantawi spoke for another 20 minutes or so and said that all that mattered was his mother, who was ‘taken away’.
The county prosecutor argued that she wasn’t ‘taken away’ but that Altantawi murdered her, which the jury decided upon after only two hours of deliberation.
“This was a hit on a witness,” the prosecution argued. “(she) was to testify at a deposition against her husband.”
The prosecutor argued that Altantawi’s father was facing prison time for embezzlement and that Altantawi killed her for that reason.
The prosecution asked for 40 to 80 years in prison for Altantawi.
The judge described the sentencing as difficult and said, despite Altantawi’s claims of innocence, she must treat him as guilty since that is how the jury ruled.
“Under our law, he was found guilty, and the court is treating him as he was found guilty of committing murder,” she said.
She said, after hearing the past four hours of the hearing, that Altantawi believed he was the victim in the crime.
Ultimately, she sentenced him to 35 to 60 years in prison, with credit for time served.
He was arraigned on Aug. 28 of 2017 on a second-degree murder charge before it was amended to a premeditation count after a medical examiner’s report determined Houranieh died from asphyxiation, while blunt force trauma contributed to her death.
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