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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'slashing'

May 25, 2008

"Give Peace a Chance" is apparently no longer the tune surrounding Central Park's Strawberry Fields, after a stroller mishap led to a man getting slashed. Yesterday evening, a man accidentally bumped into a stroller being pushed by a man and a woman near the park at 72nd St. and Central Park West. Foregoing the usual, "Excuse me," and "Good evening" of the average spring constitutional, the stroller bumper and the child's pushers got into a......

Continue Reading "Messing With Stroller Dads Will Get You Cut"

February 18, 2008

The man accused of slashing Upper East Side psychologist Kathryn Faughey to death and attacking another doctor was arraigned in court yesterday. And 39-year-old David Tarloff, a schizophrenic with a history of violence, made it quite an arraignment. Referring to his court-appointed lawyer Reginald Sharpe, Tarloff said, "I'm not stupid. I won't talk until I have a real attorney. I was a real attorney...He isn't an attorney. I saw his license. Look at him! He's......

Continue Reading "At Arraignment, Cleaver Killer Says He's "Not Stupid""

February 17, 2008

Photograph of police escorting suspect David Tarloff by Andy Kropka/AP The police arrested a Queens resident for the murder of a therapist on the Upper East Side. David Tarloff, 39, apparently made "statement implicating himself" in the brutal death of Dr. Kathryn Faughey as well as the attack on Dr. Kent Shinbach, who Tarloff claimed institutionalized him in 1991. Tarloff, who is schizophrenic, has a history of violent crime. Faughy was "slashed 15 times......

Continue Reading "Shrink's Killer Nabbed; Intended Target Was Other Doctor"

February 16, 2008

Update: Police have arrested David Tarloff, a Queens resident and former patient of Shinbach's, for Faughey's murder. The Post reports Tarloff, described as overweight with a bald spot by neighbors, has a history of violent crime. Apparently fingerprints found on suitcases left at the crime scene led the police to Tarloff. Earlier: As the family and friends prepare to say good-bye at a funeral for psychologist Kathryn Faughey today, the police have been questioning a......

Continue Reading "Suspect Arrested in Upper East Side Therapist Murder "

February 15, 2008

Photograph of William Kunsman, a friend of murdered psychologist Kathryn Faughey, by Ed Koskey Jr./AP The police questioned a friend of Upper East Side psychologist Kathryn Faughey, who was brutally murdered in her office Tuesday night. William Kunsman, who resides in Pennsylvania, voluntarily went to a PA state police barracks in Bethelem for hours of questioning before he was released. The police have declined to say whether Kunsman is a suspect, but they were......

Continue Reading "Investigation into Therapist's Brutal Murder Continues; Friend Questioned and Released"

February 14, 2008

Update: The police questioned and released a man in Pennsylvania about the murders. The police apparently found the man, who had met Dr. Faughey and her husband at a guitar camp, by looking at Faughey's email. Earlier: The police released a sketch of the suspect in the murder of an Upper East Side psychologist and revealed more details about the Tuesday night crime. The suspect, described as a man in his 40s, about 5'9" and......

Continue Reading "Police Hunt for Man Who Hacked Therapist to Death"

December 16, 2007

An assistant principal at P.S. 196 in East Williamsburg was arrested yesterday for slashing her live-in boyfriend with a pair of scissors. Danielle Capuano's boyfriend Alejandro Ruiz was also arrested in the domestic violence incident in East Elmhurst, Queens. Capuano was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Ruiz was charged with assault for hitting Capuano in the head. Neighbors of the couple described their seven-year relationship as troubled, with frequent screaming matches......

Continue Reading "Assistant Principal Stabs Boyfriend in Argument"

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