{"id":69942,"date":"2025-12-13T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:53:07","slug":"woman-stabbed-in-nyc-macys-was-going-off-moms-instinct-while-fighting-off-homeless-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69942\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman stabbed in NYC Macy&#8217;s was going off &#8216;mom&#8217;s instinct&#8217; while fighting off homeless attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California mom who fought off a deranged attacker while changing her baby in the bathroom of Macy\u2019s Herald Square was going off \u201ca mom\u2019s instinct,\u201d a family friend told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not surprised she did that,\u201d the friend, Justine Silva, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe works out. She\u2019s pretty fit,\u201d Silva said of the brave mom, who was stabbed in the back, shoulder and arm in the Thursday incident.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37921661\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/www-facebook-com-kerri-aherne1-117231630_236c78.jpg\" alt=\"Kerri Aherne, the Macy's stabbing suspect, smiling while sitting at a table with an alcoholic drink.\" class=\"wp-image-37921661\"  \/>Kerri Aherne, a California mom, was attacked by a deranged attacker while changing her baby in the bathroom of Macy\u2019s Herald Square. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The mom and her family were supposed to leave NYC the day after the attack but are now stuck in the Big Apple with no clear date of return, Silva added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a holiday thing,\u201d Silva, a high school girls soccer coach who knows the family through her boyfriend, said of the couple\u2019s trip to New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just had the baby not too long ago and they were just trying to get [away] on holiday. This is their first trip to New York since they had the baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Kerri Aherne, 43, \u2013 who was released from a psychiatric facility the morning of the attack \u2013 has been charged with attempted murder, assault, child endangerment and weapons possession in the disturbing incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California mom who fought off a deranged attacker while changing her baby in the bathroom of Macy\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,27044,9,56,63,65,64,2442,58],"class_list":["post-69942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-macys","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-stabbings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69942","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=69942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}