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, according 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 conduct on his half. The sixty-year-old arrived on the museum’s movie desk Saturday afternoon as guests had been queuing to attend a screening of the 1938 Howard Hawks–directed screwball basic Bringing Up Child. When instructed {that a} letter saying the revocation of his membership had been despatched out the day before today, 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 massive, 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 bit 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 handle is a Midtown Manhattan residence for the homeless, the mentally in poor health, and people residing with HIV/AIDS, has no prior arrests. Tina Varney, a pal since school days, instructed 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. “After 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.”
