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The Macy’s storefront is decorated for Christmas as people make their way through Herald Square on December 11, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS \/ AFP via Getty Images) (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (KTTV) – A Southern California woman visiting New York City with her family was stabbed multiple times at Macy\u2019s Herald Square during the holiday shopping rush, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The New York Police Department confirmed with FOX 11 officers responded after receiving a 911 call of an assault in progress at a Macy\u2019s in Manhattan\u2019s Midtown South neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Arriving officers located a 39-year-old woman suffering from multiple stab wounds to her back and a laceration to her left arm.<\/p>\n
She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials said she was visiting from the Los Angeles area with her husband.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The New York Post reported<\/a> the horrifying incident took place in the department store’s bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n Macy\u2019s stabbing suspect identified <\/p>\n The NYPD identified 43-year-old Kerri Aherne, of Tewksbury, Mass., as the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was arrested and charged with attempted murder, two counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n Macy\u2019s releases a statement <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “We are deeply saddened about the incident that took place [yesterday] as the safety of our customers and colleagues is our top priority. We kindly defer any further questions to the local authorities,” a spokesperson for Macy’s told Fox News Digital in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The name of the victim has not been released. Officials confirmed the victim and her husband are employed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0County Sheriff\u2019s Department was notified by the New York Police Department of an incident that occurred at Macy\u2019s Department Store on Thursday, December 11, 2025.\u00a0 The victim and her significant other are both employees of the LASD.\u00a0 The NYPD is the lead investigative agency, and any additional information regarding this incident will be released by the NYPD,” LA County sheriff\u2019s officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n The Source: FOX News contributed to this report. This story was also written with information from the New York Police Department and the LA County Sheriff’s Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>New York<\/a>Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department<\/a>Instastories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The Macy’s storefront is decorated for Christmas as people make their way through Herald Square on December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[850,23083,35861,9,24,55,54,12,56,848,4887,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-69257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-instastories","10":"tag-lasd","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-organization","18":"tag-series","19":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69257","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=69257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}