On a summer afternoon in one of New York City's most diverse neighborhoods, two men were stabbed within blocks of each other near Central Park, their attacker shouting religious phrases as he moved through the streets. A 51-year-old man, Raul Morales, was taken into custody after barricading himself in a nearby apartment, leaving investigators to untangle whether hatred, mental illness, or some collision of both drove the violence. Both victims survived, but the wounds left on the Upper West Side — a place where faiths and cultures have long coexisted in close proximity — are not so easily mea
NYC man arrested after stabbing two in Upper West Side; hate crime being investigated
Two men stabbed and injured; one in back, one in torso with screwdriver; both hospitalized in stable condition.