On a quiet Thursday afternoon in one of Manhattan's most residential neighborhoods, two men were stabbed in separate attacks within blocks of each other, their assailant moving through the familiar streets near Central Park with sudden, inexplicable violence. The suspect, Raul Morales, was taken into custody, but the harder questions — of motive, of hatred, of mental fracture — lingered long after the arrests. In the space between a religious phrase shouted in the street and a man with no documented psychiatric history, investigators found themselves navigating the difficult terrain where ideo
Man Arrested After Stabbing Two People on Upper West Side in Possible Hate Crimes
Two men were stabbed and injured in separate daylight attacks on the Upper West Side; both are expected to survive their injuries.