{"id":341501,"date":"2026-09-09T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:00:23","slug":"man-indicted-for-alleged-antisemitic-stabbings-on-the-upper-west-side-manhattan-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341501\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Indicted for Alleged Antisemitic Stabbings on the Upper West Side: Manhattan DA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>WSR.<\/p>\n

By Gus Saltonstall<\/p>\n

Raul Morales has been indicted for attempted murder and assault as a hate crime in connection with stabbing two men in July<\/a> on the Upper West Side, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAs alleged, Raul Morales violently assaulted two innocent New Yorkers for no other reason than his belief they were Jewish,\u201d said NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch, in a news release. \u201cThe members of the NYPD responded quickly, identified the suspect, and took him into custody that same afternoon. That is what the NYPD has done, and will continue to do, in response to antisemitic hate crimes and hate crimes of any kind: respond immediately, conduct a thorough investigation, and pursue complete accountability under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around 1:30 p.m. on July 23, Morales allegedly approached a 57-year-old Asian man from behind on West 84th Street and Central Park West, and stabbed him, unprovoked, in the back with a knife, according to court documents and the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

He also yelled \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d during the attack, before fleeing the street, the DA added. Morales proceeded to walk past a synagogue on West 83rd Street and Central Park West and yelled, \u201cJustice for Islam,\u201d the DA\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

Then, at 1:43 p.m., 13 minutes after his first attack, he walked up to a 50-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippah, near a second synagogue at West 86th street and Amsterdam Avenue, and stabbed him in the chest with a screwdriver, according to the DA\u2019S office.<\/a><\/p>\n

A witness to the attack told Bragg\u2019s office that he followed Morales as he fled to an apartment building near West 89th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, and heard him allegedly yell once more, \u201cAllahu Akbar.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two victims were both rushed to nearby hospitals, where the first man arrived with the knife still lodged in his back, needing surgery to remove it, the DA\u2019s office said. Both victims survived the attacks, police confirmed.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s office also said that during its investigation it \u201cuncovered additional evidence illustrating alleged antisemitic bias,\u201d specifically within Morales\u2019 text messages recovered from his phone.<\/p>\n

Morales, 51, was specifically charged with attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime, assault in the first degree as a hate crime, attempted assault in the first degree as a hate crime, and assault in the second degree as a hate crime, according to the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaul Morales was allegedly motivated by antisemitism when he attacked two New Yorkers in broad daylight near two Upper West Side synagogues,\u201d Bragg said in a news release. \u201cSince the initial arrest, my Office has continued to thoroughly investigate this matter and uncovered additional evidence alleging the defendant specifically harbors antisemitic views.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WSR. By Gus Saltonstall Raul Morales has been indicted for attempted murder and assault as a hate crime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-341501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341501","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=341501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}