California tourist recovering from stabbing at Macy's Herald Square

A parent of 3 from California is present recovering aft being stabbed wrong Macy's Herald Square in New York City connected Thursday.

It appears to person been an unprovoked attack, constabulary said. 

The victim, 39, was stabbed repeatedly successful a store bath by different pistillate portion she was changing her 10-month-old daughter. It happened connected the seventh floor, wherever children's toys and apparel are sold.

10-month-old besides injured successful attack

The victim's hubby was lasting extracurricular the bath with their 2 different kids, ages 12 and 15, erstwhile his woman went successful to alteration the baby. He saw the fishy locomotion into the bathroom, and past heard screaming, constabulary said. He past rushed wrong and helped his woman subdue the suspect, holding her until store information arrived, according to the NYPD.

The pistillate was taken to the hospital, wherever she had to get respective stitches. According to the transgression complaint, her 10-month-old fell from the changing array to the level during the onslaught and sustained redness and swelling to her forehead.

Both the parent and babe person been released from the hospital. 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the unfortunate and her hubby are some LASD employees. The mates resides successful Jurupa Valley, CBS News Los Angeles confirmed.

Suspect bought weapon astatine Macy's earlier stabbing

Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, has been charged with attempted murder, battle with a weapon, battle and transgression possession of a weapon. She was arraigned connected Friday evening.

According to the transgression complaint, Aherne had nary transgression past successful New York but was arrested backmost successful 2018 successful Massachusetts for posting connected Facebook astir sidesplitting Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Prosecutors said Aherne told constabulary she had been discharged from Manhattan Psychiatric Center connected Thursday morning, claiming she had been staying determination for much than a year.

According to prosecutors, Aherne went to Macy's connected Thursday, wherever she purchased a weapon and searched for idiosyncratic to termination successful the section store due to the fact that voices successful her caput told her she had to termination idiosyncratic oregon she would beryllium killed.

The ailment besides states that Aherne said she could not tolerate hospitals immoderate longer and wanted to spell to situation alternatively than beryllium returned to a hospital.

"That's truthful terrifying"

Macy's successful Herald Square is typically a focal constituent of vacation cheer this clip of year. People successful the country were shocked by the news. 

"That's awful. Really awful," Maria Kablan said. 

"Everyone enjoying Christmas, everybody was conscionable getting acceptable for the holidays, and to deliberation thing truthful horrible would hap present is precise disappointing," said Ronald Smith. 

"That's terrible," said Taylor Harris, a tourer from Iowa. 

"That's truthful terrifying. This is my archetypal clip here, astatine Macy's, and there's a stabbing. That's a small wild," tourer Lexi Kidd said. 

It's not the archetypal clip Macy's flagship store has been astatine the halfway of an investigation. Last month, police arrested a pistillate for allegedly striking a 71-year-old antheral successful the caput with her compartment phone. 

A Macy's spokesperson told CBS News New York the store has taken respective steps to reenforce safety, including expanding an NYPD detail. On Friday, cops could beryllium seen extracurricular the store. 

John Dias contributed to this report.

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