{"id":310391,"date":"2026-07-31T02:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:14:19","slug":"maniac-who-stabbed-2-while-screaming-allahu-akbar-indicted-for-nyc-hate-crime-attack-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310391\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac who stabbed 2 while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ indicted for NYC hate crime attack: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The maniac who allegedly went on a stabbing rampage while screaming \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d<\/a> on the Upper West Side was indicted for the unhinged, hate-fueled attack, prosecutors announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office secured an indictment against Raul Morales, the 51-year-old Upper West Side resident who currently stands charged with hate crime raps for each of the two July 23 attacks.<\/p>\n

Morales, who wasn\u2019t in Manhattan Criminal Court for the brief hearing, allegedly first approached a 57-year-old Asian man from behind while shouting \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d and plunged a knife into his back near West 84th Street and Central Park West, prosecutors have said.<\/p>\n

Raul Morales (right) was indicted Wednesday, the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office announced. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

Raul Morales faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted on the top charges. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n

He then walked passed a synagogue steps from the first stabbing \u2014 yelling \u201cJustice for Islam\u201d and \u201cAllahu Akbar,\u201d \u00a0or\u00a0\u201cGod is greater!\u2019\u2019 in Arabic \u2014 before encountering Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, a 50-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah<\/a>, four blocks later near the Jewish Center.<\/p>\n

Morales allegedly stabbed Grunhaus in the chest with a screwdriver, with witnesses again reporting that he said \u201cAllahu Akbar,\u201d <\/a>according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

He was arrested less than an hour after the attack, at his NYCHA apartment just blocks away on Amsterdam Avenue near West 88th Street, where he had barricaded himself, cops have said.<\/p>\n

Around 20 supporters of Grunhaus\u2019 showed up for the court hearing Thursday, including close friend Nava Silton, who said he was healing \u201clittle by little.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, one of the victims, is healing \u201clittle by little,\u201d according to a pal. Facebook\/Lidia Lander<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s working hard on healing and he has good people supporting him in that endeavor,\u201d Silton said outside the courthouse.<\/p>\n

Morales remains locked up on Rikers Island and will be arraigned on the indictment on Sept. 22 before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Althea Drysdale. The charges in the indictment will be revealed during that hearing.<\/p>\n

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Cops initially hit Morales \u2014 a former drug parolee<\/a> and an apparent onetime Brooklyn security guard \u2014 with hate crime raps only for the attack on Grunhaus, but the charges were updated at his criminal court arraignment July 24<\/a>. He\u2019s now charged with two counts of second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime, in addition to assault and attempted assault with hate crime enhancements.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Morales faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted on attempted murder as a hate crime, a class B violent felony, where sentences can run consecutively instead of at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The maniac who allegedly went on a stabbing rampage while screaming \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d on the Upper West Side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,10685,397,9545,57,9,56,63,65,64,62,58],"class_list":["post-310391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-hate-crimes","tag-indictment","tag-manhattan-criminal-court","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-upper-west-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}