{"id":341659,"date":"2026-09-09T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341659\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:38:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-indicted-for-2-hate-crime-stabbings-near-nyc-synagogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341659\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Indicted For 2 Hate Crime Stabbings Near Nyc Synagogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man accused of stabbing two people near synagogues in the Upper West Side has been indicted, according to the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Raul Morales is charged with multiple counts of attempted murder as a hate crime, assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say the 51-year-old <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/2-stabbed-in-suspected-upper-west-side-hate-crime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbed an Asian man<\/a> in the back with a knife was he was walking on West 84th Street on July 23. He yelled \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d before fleeing the scene on foot.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He stabbed a Jewish man in the chest with a screwdriver near West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue shortly after, according to authorities. A witness also heard him yell \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d before taking off.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both victims were hospitalized for treatment. The first victim required surgery to remove the knife lodged in his back.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Following Morales\u2019 arrest, investigators say they also found antisemitic text messages on his phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of stabbing two people near synagogues in the Upper West Side has been indicted, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-341659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341659","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=341659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}