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Monday 14 March 2022
Video shows man stabbing 2 workers at New York's MOMA

By MARINA VILLENUEVE and said on social media that
BRYAN GALLION it would be closed to the
Associated Press public Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Video The midtown Manhattan
from the Museum of Mod- museum evacuated its pa-
ern Art shows the moment trons Saturday afternoon.
a man leaped over a re- Yuichi Shimada, a mu-
ception desk and stabbed seumgoer present at the
two employees as they time of the attack, tweeted
tried to flee Saturday. he was on the second floor
The video released by New when a couple suddenly
York City police shows a came running toward him,
man police identified as and he heard security
60-year-old Gary Cabana guards' radios throughout
entering the museum lobby the museum loudly an-
through a revolving door nouncing something at the
then climbing onto the same time.
desk and jumping over it as "It was chaotic, partly be-
a man carrying what ap- cause it was snowing, with
pears to be a walkie-talkie a group of young women
tries in vain to stop him. in a panic and crying,"
Police were still searching Shimada said. "Not being
for Cabana as of Sunday In this photo from a social media post by Scott Cowdrey, people are evacuated from the Museum good with claustrophobia
morning. of Modern Art where a stabbing occurred, Saturday, March 12, 2022, in New York. myself, I headed for the exit
The man, wearing a black Associated Press early."
wool hat and a surgi- Shimada was diverted to
cal mask, approaches ground after the attacker rorism, said his membership were rushed within minutes the side on his way out
three employees who are runs away. had been revoked for two to the hospital. as a stretcher was hur-
trapped in the small space Authorities said Saturday separate incidents of disor- Miller said Saturday that riedly brought in. Police
and stabs one of them — a that the two museum em- derly behavior at the mu- the video showed which vehicles and ambulances,
young woman who is able ployees, a 24-year-old man seum in recent days. way the suspect went after emergency lights flashing,
to run away seconds later and 24-year-old woman, A letter informing Cabana leaving the museum. Police thronged outside the mu-
— though not before she is were both stable with non- of his expired membership shared photos of Cabana seum as dozens of patrons
stabbed again in the back. life-threatening injuries. had been sent out Friday, late Saturday night, asking hurried away.
The attacker then stabs the Their names weren't re- but he came to the muse- for the public's help finding Mayor Eric Adams tweet-
second employee as the leased. um Saturday saying he in- him. ed Saturday evening he'd
man with the walkie-talkie According to police, Ca- tended to see a film there, The department has no re- been briefed on the attack
hurls a notebook at him. bana was denied en- according to police. cord of a previous arrest for and said the victims' injuries
That appears to distract the trance Saturday for previ- He then became upset the man. were not life-threatening.
attacker long enough for ous incidents of disorderly and stabbed the museum The museum didn't im- "We're grateful for the quick
the second victim to flee. conduct. John Miller, NYPD employees in the back, mediately respond to an work of our first respond-
The third employee can be deputy commissioner of in- collarbone and the back emailed request for com- ers," Adams, a former NYPD
seen getting up from the telligence and counterter- of neck, Miller said. They ment on the incident, but captain, said.q
Police: Ammon Bundy arrested in trespassing case

Meridian, west of Boise, the check on its welfare after charged in the Oregon
Idaho Statesman reported. the family canceled an ap- and Nevada standoffs. He
Bundy is well-known for par- pointment. was acquitted in Oregon
ticipating in armed stand- Bundy urged his followers and the Nevada charges
offs with law enforcement, to go to the hospital to sup- were dismissed after a mis-
notably at the Malheur Na- port the family. trial.
tional Wildlife Refuge in Or- Bundy wrote on Twitter on He is set to go on trial Mon-
egon in 2016, which left one Saturday that "last night day for two charges of mis-
man dead, and on federal my very good friend Di- demeanor trespassing and
land near his family's ranch ego's grandson was medi- one charge of resisting or
in Nevada in 2014. cally kidnapped because obstructing officers after he
He's also scheduled to a medical practitioner was arrested twice in one
stand trial this week on called (child protective ser- day at the Idaho Capitol in
three charges from a previ- vices) for a missed doctor April 2021.
Far-right activist Ammon Bundy is dragged from the Idaho Sen-
ate Chambers gallery by Idaho State Troopers after returning to ous trespassing case at the appointment. If this hap- At the time he was subject
the Idaho Statehouse in Boise, Idaho, Aug. 26, 2020. Idaho Capitol. pened to them, it could to a one-year ban from the
Associated Press The arrest Saturday con- happen to you." Statehouse due to previ-
cerned a 10-month-old One other person was ar- ous trespassing, when he
MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) — welfare case, police said determined to be "suffer- rested on suspicion of tres- refused to leave an audi-
Far-right activist Ammon Saturday. ing from severe malnourish- passing at the hospital, and torium at the Idaho State-
Bundy, who's running for Bundy was arrested at ment" and at risk of injury or two people were arrested house in August 2020 dur-
governor in Idaho, has about 1:15 a.m. on suspi- death, the Meridian Police earlier Friday in a related ing a protest of the Legis-
been arrested after refus- cion of misdemeanor tres- Department said in a news incident on suspicion of re- lature's special session and
ing to leave a hospital in passing at St. Luke's Me- release. The baby's parents sisting or obstructing police. was rolled out of the build-
connection with a child- ridian Medical Center in had refused to let officers Bundy, of Emmett, was ing by police in a chair.q