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Gary Cabana Wanted In Museum Stabbings

NYPD is searching for Gary Cabana who is wanted after a double stabbing at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday March 12 2022. According to police reports Gary Cabana entered the Museum of Modern Art to attend a film however he was told his membership to the museum had been revoked due to past poor behavior. Gary Cabana reacted by stabbing two museum employees and fleeing the building. Thankfully both employees are expected to survive their injuries. The double stabbing was caught on surveillance cameras. Any information regrading Gary Cabana and/or the Museum of Modern Art stabbing is asked to call NYPD

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Police on Sunday identified the crazed suspect on the loose who stabbed two workers at the Museum of Modern Art Saturday — and released shocking video of the bloodshed.

Gary Cabana, 60, was enraged that his membership to the iconic Midtown museum had been canceled when he rushed through the W. 53rd St. movie theater entrance and jumped over the counter, police said.

He repeatedly stabbed a man and woman, both 24, working behind the desk as they scrambled for cover, the video shows. A man who appears to be a museum security guard ran frantically along the other side of the counter, pointing at the attacker and hurling objects at him.

The assailant stabbed the male worker in the collarbone behind the neck and the woman in the lower back and neck, police said. Both victims managed to escape and medics took them to Bellevue Hospital, where they’re expected to fully recover.

Cabana managed to run off and the NYPD on Sunday asked the public’s help tracking him down.

Police said he had his museum membership revoked on Friday because of two past disruptions and he flew into a rage Saturday when he discovered he wouldn’t be allowed in to see a movie.

Cabana portrays himself as a film and theater superfan on his Instagram and Facebook pages, regularly posting loopy commentary on shows he’s seen. Cabana posted several photos of MOMA exhibits in January and February.

His Facebook profile includes several anti-Trump rants, including a Feb. 4 screed where he accused the former president of deliberately letting COVID spread to improve his re-election chances. “HE IS A MASS MURDERER. GO TO MAR-A-LAGO AND CUT THE HEAD OFF THE SNAKE,” he wrote.“Take his life or take your own.”

Cops ask anyone with information about Cabana’s whereabouts to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

https://news.yahoo.com/video-nypd-releases-shocking-video-122100923.html

Christian Jeffers Charged In NYC Hammer Attacks

Christian Jeffers has been arrested in New York City for a series of hammer attacks on random victims. According to police reports Christian Jeffers who has a very long criminal history with over thirty arrests would intentionally bump into people in the subway before striking them with a hammer. Christian Jeffers who has been charged with a series of assaults is now facing hate crime charges as well. New York City has seen a sharp uptake in crime over the last few months with random attacks increasing especially in the subway

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The suspect who attacked a subway rider with a hammer after bumping into the victim at a Manhattan station has been arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes, police said.

Christian Jeffers was arrested Wednesday, department sources told NBC New York and later confirmed by police. The 48-year-old was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing, each as a hate crime. Jeffers also faces a weapon possession charge.

While being led by police out of the police precinct, Jeffers told reporters that the other man in the station “pushed me.”

It was not immediately clear if Jeffers, who last residence was listed as an address on the Upper West Side, had hired an attorney. Sources told NBC New York that Jeffers has been arrested more than 30 times pin the past.

Police and the district attorney did not specify what led to hate crime charges being filed. The MTA released a statement after the arrest, saying that they are “grateful for the outstanding police work by the NYPD who were able to locate and arrest the person who attacked one of our riders with 24 (hours) of the incident…we expect this perpetrator of a hate crime will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

The arrest comes less than 24 hours after Jeffers allegedly attacked another man at the 14th Street station, using a hammer to bash the victim in the head.

The victim told NBC New York on Wednesday that Jeffers intentionally bumped into him after harassing someone else on the platform, adding that he had no time to argue before the blow was delivered.

The victim, who asked his name be withheld, says he was with a friend with whom he had just had dinner Tuesday. They were on their way home and encountered the suspect near the turnstiles around 9 p.m.

“We saw the assailant come out from the turnstile,” the victim said. “As he was coming out he bumped into another individual that was in front of us.”

Words were exchanged between those two, according to the victim. Then the suspect walked the victim’s way and allegedly intentionally bumped into him, though he says he tried to move to the side to avoid contact.

“He turned around, trying to get in my face, get in my face aggressively,” the victim said, adding the stranger ended up stepping on his foot in the process

What happened next was captured on video shot by the man’s friend. It shows the suspect screaming at the victim — something about, “Don’t you see me walking here? Don’t you have eyes? Open your eyes!’, the victim recalled.

Then the hammer came out. The victim was hit on the left side of his head.

“I just saw him reaching into a bag, pull something out — and I saw that,” he said of the hammer. “It happened too quick for me to react, I tried to put my hand up because I was expecting something but I just got hit regardless.”

It happened right by the subway booth, though it wasn’t clear if an agent was inside at the time. Police initially said the victim had suspect had some sort of argument, but the victim says the two had no dispute. He says the suspect was the aggressor.

He also says the suspect threatened the friend who shot the video.

The victim, who says he has spent the time since the attack in a constant state of fear, described the sharp pain he felt. He said there was blood pouring down the side of his head and that he was too shocked and dazed to do much.

“I want to get him locked up because he was clearly aggressive,” the victim said. “He was looking for trouble.”

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to be physically OK.

“It’s very sad what we are facing. We are trying to live our life as well as we can and it’s just unfortunate that we have to face all these adversities along with just all the struggles of life and it’s just unnecessary conflict,” the victim said of the current state of subway crime. “It’s unfortunate the city is the way it is.”

“It’s hard because we have to be afraid, just be constantly aware, like be afraid of anyone who is passing by you,” he added. “And you know, who knows what they have, you know. It’s not really a way to live.”

The incident comes almost two weeks after New York City started its new “Subway Safety Plan”, a 17-page program to fight the massive spike in transit crime in the still-recovering city. But instead of going down, major transit crimes were up 30% week over week in the first part of the rollout, with felony assaults nearly doubling.

Christian Jeffers Arrested In NYC Hammer Attacks

Harvey Marcelin Charged With 3rd Murder

Harvey Marcelin is a transgender woman who has just been charged with her third murder. According to police reports Harvey Marcelin spent time in prison for two murders, one committed in 1963 and the other committed in 1983, and was on lifetime parole has been charged with the dismemberment murder of Susan Leyden whose body parts were found scattered around Brooklyn. Now Harvey Marcelin who is 83 years old would shoot and kill his first victim in 1963 and would spend twenty years in prison and within a year after getting out Harvey Marcelin would stab another woman to death before stuffing her body in a suitcase and dropping it off in Central Park. In 2019 Harvey Marcelin would be released from prison and is now facing yet another murder charge. Harvey Marcelin was seen on surveillance camera wheeling a large bag out of an apartment in which authorities now believed contained parts of Susan Leyden who was seen bringing the same bag into Marcelin apartment a few days earlier.

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An 83-year-old previously convicted in two other killings has been arrested in connection with the grisly discovery of a woman’s body — missing a head, arms and legs — that was found in a garbage bag in a shopping cart on a busy street outside a Brooklyn store last week, according to police and prison records.

Harvey Marcelin, who has spent more than 50 years in prison for the two prior convictions in deaths of other women, is charged with concealing a human corpse regarding the torso that law enforcement sources said belonged to a 68-year-old woman living in an LGBTQ shelter in the Clinton Hill area at the time of her death.

Additional charges could be forthcoming.

The body was found a week ago at the corner of Atlantic and Pennsylvania avenues, just outside a construction safety gear shop next to a carpet store, by a passerby who noticed the bag on his way to a friend’s house in Greenpoint and decided to open it up when it was still there on his way home. He was the one to call 911.

The bag wasn’t tied up. It was only rolled down, a senior NYPD official said the man reported. He reached inside. First, he felt a roll of toilet paper. Then came the torso.

The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how the woman died. It’s not yet clear if a human leg found blocks from the torso a few days later has been definitively linked to the same victim.

According to prison records cited by the New York Post, Marcelin has twice been convicted of killings before. Marcelin spent more than 50 years in state prison on murder and manslaughter convictions dating back to 1963.

The murder charge stemmed from a woman’s shooting death. Marcelin was released on lifetime parole in May 1984, the Post reported, and cuffed again for allegedly stabbing another woman less than a year later. Marcelin was released from prison in late 2019.

Police stress their investigation in the latest case is ongoing. Marcelin is due back in court Thursday. Harvey Marcelin is being represented by Legal Aid, which didn’t immediately return an email request for comment early Thursday.

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There’s new information on a convicted serial killer charged with murder this week after police found a woman’s body dismembered and discarded in Brooklyn.

Details around 68-year-old Susan Leyden’s death are gruesome and disturbing.

The investigation began last week when police allegedly found the Brooklyn woman’s torso bagged in a shopping cart on Atlantic and Pennsylvania avenues in East New York.

“Evidence includes extensive video canvassing, interviews of witnesses, search warrants executed to gather items recovered,” Chief of Detectives James Essig said.

Investigators say surveillance videos led them to Harvey Marcelin, also known as Marceline Harvey, an 83-year-old trans woman and twice convicted killer, who lives around the corner from where the torso was found.

Police believe Harvey befriended Leyden two years ago via social media.

Leyden was last seen alive walking into Harvey’s apartment on Feb. 27

“On March 1, our perpetrator, Ms. Harvey, and another unknown female at the Home Depot in Manhattan, they purchased a Sawzall, trash bags and cleaning solutions,” Essig said.

Police say this surveillance video from last week shows Harvey in a 99 cent store, where they believe she was sitting on a human leg wrapped in plastic.

When cops then executed a search warrant in Harvey’s apartment, they found more body parts inside. She’s now charged with second-degree murder.

“This is just the latest of a list of heinous offenses conducted over period of a lifetime by Ms. Harvey, and we can only hope she can do no more,” Essig said.

Marceline Harvey has already spent more than 50 years in prison.

She was first arrested in 1957 for felony assault and in 1963 for rape. That same year she was arrested again for shooting a woman to death in Harlem and sentenced to 20 years to life.

Harvey was released in 1984 on lifetime parole and arrested a year later for stabbing a woman to death in Central Park.

She was just released from prison in 2019.

The NYPD is now looking back at any unsolved missing person cases in this area dating from 2019 to now to see if Marceline Harvey could have any connection.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/east-new-york-brooklyn-woman-dismembered-murdered-marceline-harvey-arrest/

Brian Owsinski Charged In 2 Year Old’s Murder

Brian Owsinski is a man from New York State that has just been indicted on the murder of his girlfriend’s two year old daughter. According to police reports 911 received a call regarding an unresponsive two year old girl. When ambulance attendants arrived they would find the little girl in dire shape and she was rushed to the hospital where she soon passed away. According to reports over a two day period the little girl was severely beaten which led to her death. Along with Brian Owsinski being charged with murder the child’s mother Savannah Rubano was charged with one felony count each of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, in addition to two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the death of her daughter, Amara Campbell

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Brian Owsinski, the 26-year-old suspect arrested and charged late last week in the murder of his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter in Woodbourne, has a child from a previous relationship who turns three this week.

Brian Owsinski is accused of killing Amara Campbell, reportedly his current girlfriend’s daughter, in Woodbourne. A source told The SullivanTimes that the girl’s mother and Owsinski were brought to separate police stations for questioning.

Fallsburg Police Chief Simmie Williams and Sullivan County District Attorney Meagan Galligan issued a joint news release late Friday with some of the details.

They said that Brian Owsinski was charged with Murder in the Second Degree, on January 26, 2022, following a joint investigation conducted by members of his force, the New York State Police and the Sullivan County DA’s Office.

It is alleged that, “between Monday, January 25, and Tuesday, January 26, 2022, Owsinski inflicted injuries upon the toddler that ultimately killed her. The child was discovered unresponsive at 14 Phoenix Lane in Woodbourne by police and EMTs responding to a 911 call at approximately 5:40 PM on Tuesday, and was transported to Garnet Health Medical Center – Catskills, where she was later declared deceased.”

Owsinksi was initially charged with the felonious assault of Campbell and, following a completed autopsy, police upgraded the charge to murder.

“We mourn the loss of Amara and extend our deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathy to those who loved this innocent child,” Williams said. “Our police community will bring to bear all of our combined manpower and resources to ensure those responsible for heinous acts like this are brought to justice.”

Owsinski was remanded to the Sullivan County Jail without bail by the Fallsburg Justice Court. He is represented by the Sullivan Legal Aid Panel.

Williams thanked his partners in law enforcement, including the Liberty and Wurtsboro barracks of the State Police, the Sullivan County Child Advocacy Center, and Galligan’s Office for their immediate responses and dedication to the case.

While a student in Fallsburg a little more than a decade ago, Owsinski was reportedly sent to a juvenile home from around 2008 to 2010 due to behavioral problems, according to a source familiar with the family.

Owsinski has five siblings. He is the oldest among his two brothers and also has three sisters.

In 2013, his father – then 39 and with the same name – was arrested and charged with felony assault and misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon for a fight with Jason Helm (age 21 at the time) in Woodridge – that was described at the time by authorities as a domestic dispute.

Helm told The SullivanTimes Saturday that “we got into a brawl because he was highly intoxicated and blew cigarette smoke into my son’s face when he was only five months old.”

When Helm confronted him, he said the older Brian Owsinski then pulled out a knife and began to attack him and that’s when Helm says he began to defend himself.

Both were arrested but Helm said he was ultimately cleared of any charges.

(Helm said that he has a child with one of the sisters of the suspect and was living in the Owsinski home at the time).

https://www.sullivantimes.com/post/suspect-accused-of-murdering-woodbourne-toddler-has-daughter-who-will-turn-three-this-week

Ian Hasselwander Charged With Morgan Bates Murder

Ian Hasselwander has been charged with the murder of Morgan Bates. According to police records the body of Morgan Bates was found a week after she was reported missing, the twenty year old woman had been strangled and found in a State park. Shortly after Morgan Bates remains were found police would arrest Ian Hasselwander who has been charged with with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, first-degree strangulation, and concealment of a human corpse. Police are trying to determine whether or not Ian Hasselwander and Morgan Bates knew each other or whether it was a random attack.

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As an outpouring of grief and remembrances took place to remember the life of a 20-year-old woman whose body was discovered a week ago in a state park in this town, police announced the arrest of a Petersburgh man in connection with her death.

Ian Hasselwander, 22, was arrested Friday night by Rensselaer County sheriff’s investigators looking into the death of Morgan Bates, 20, of Washington County. Her body was found in the 175-acre Cherry Plain State Park last Sunday near Black River Road.

Ian Hasselwander is charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, first-degree strangulation and concealment of a human corpse, all felonies, according to the sheriff’s department. He was arraigned and sent to the county jail without bail pending his next court date.

Authorities did not say how Bates and Hasselwander may have known each other and family members declined to comment. The Washington County sheriff’s office had previously put out a missing person’s report for Bates, of Eagle Bridge, after she was possibly last sighted last in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, at 2 a.m. Feb. 22. Officials said soon after she was found that the death was suspicious in nature.

Other agencies working on the case included the District Attorney’s office, the State Police, the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, state forest rangers, the state Intelligence Center and the Capital Region Crime Analysis Center.

The arrest came the night before calling hours were to take place for Bates at the Mahar and Son Funeral Home in Bennington, Vermont. A celebration of her life was scheduled as well, according to the funeral home.

For the Bates family, the tragedy is compounded, as Morgan’s mother died in January. Through the funeral home, family members declined to speak to the press, but Morgan’s father William Bates posted a series of public Facebook messages about the situation, in one saying, “Morgan you are my world,my life and my rock. You will always be my angel.”

Bates also posted, “Now my main thing is now to get justice for my daughter. I will not give up on that.” He said the suspect is his daughter’s former boyfriend.

Morgan Bates’ obituary on the funeral home website says she was born in Bennington, and graduated from Cambridge Central High School in 2019. She worked at the Stewart’s Shop in Pownal, Vermont. It says she loved horses and also worked at stables in the area.

She is also being remembered by the Cambridge school district.

“Morgan always had a twinkle in her eye and was known for being spunky and having a big heart,” said Secondary Principal Caroline Goss in a post on the district web site. “As an educator, every student that we work with forever leaves an impression on our hearts. I had the privilege of having Morgan as a student and being her principal. I was proud to see her walk across the stage at graduation and looked forward to seeing her pursue her dreams working with horses. Morgan left a big impact with every educator in the district and she will be greatly missed.”

The school is offering support and counseling services for students and employees to deal with the loss.

On Facebook, friends posted messages remembering how special she was, as a friend and a beautiful soul.

In a statement, Rensselaer County Sheriff Patrick Russo said the agencies worked around the clock “which led to a timely arrest.”

“Law enforcement has worked around the clock on this case since Morgan Bates disappeared,” District Attorney Mary Pat Donnelly said in the statement. “This is certainly not the outcome we had hoped for. This arrest is the first step towards justice for Morgan and her family.”

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/22-year-old-charged-with-murder-after-body-found-16979436.php