{"id":780716,"date":"2026-07-23T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:59:09","slug":"man-who-stabbed-2-near-new-york-citys-central-park-yelled-allahu-akbar-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780716\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who stabbed 2 near New York City\u2019s Central Park yelled \u2018Allahu Akbar,\u2019 police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man accused of stabbing two people near Manhattan\u2019s Central Park on Thursday reportedly yelled \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d during the attacks, the city\u2019s police commissioner said.<\/p>\n

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The stabbings on the Upper West Side occurred around 1:31 p.m. and both victims, who are adult men, were stable at a hospital and expected to survive, the New York Police Department said.<\/p>\n

Raul Morales, 51, was arrested, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cDetectives are continuing to work the case and determine motive, but according to victim and witness statements, Morales yelled \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 during both attacks,\u201d she said in the statement. \u201cThe NYPD is currently evaluating whether this is a potential hate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the victims is Asian and the other is Jewish, Tisch said. <\/p>\n

Tisch also said that while Morales does not have a known mental history with police, \u201dthe initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

A bystander led police to where Morales was hiding, Tisch said, and she described that person as a good Samaritan.<\/p>\n

There was no evidence Wednesday that either victim knew each other or Morales, she said.<\/p>\n

The attacks happened about two blocks apart, according to police. The first was at 84th Street and Central Park West and the second was at 86th and Central Park West, police said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he had been briefed on the stabbings. He said he was grateful the victims were stable and he thanked police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NYPD\u2019s initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor. They are also evaluating these stabbings as potential hate crimes,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese hateful and despicable attacks have no place in our city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of stabbing two people near Manhattan\u2019s Central Park on Thursday reportedly yelled \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-780716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}