MOMA stabbing suspect also wanted for January assault of Broadway theater manager

The deranged homeless man accused of stabbing two Museum of Fashionable Artwork workers on Saturday had attacked a person and threatened a union official after he was sacked from his job at a Broadway theater, police and sources stated.

Gary Cabana, 60, has evaded police seize since he slashed two staff in a rage as a result of he was instructed his membership had been revoked.

However by the stabbings adopted two different disturbing incidents that got here after he was let go from a job on the Nederlander Theater on West forty first Road, police sources stated.

After Cabana misplaced his job, he despatched threatening emails between November 2021 and January to a girl on the Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical Stage Staff workplace, which represents projectionists and ushers, cops stated.

“Payback is coming,” he wrote to the girl, police stated. “F–okay you c–t.”

Police stated he visited the union workplace on West forty fifth Road on two events, in search of the girl. She allegedly instructed police that she feared for her security as a result of he had assaulted a co-worker lately.

Cabana allegedly punched his former manager outside of the Nederlander Theater in January.
Cabana allegedly punched his former supervisor exterior of the Nederlander Theater in January.
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He was slapped with a felony harassment criticism because of the allegations.

In January, Cabana allegedly punched his former supervisor within the face exterior of the Nederlander, in keeping with police sources.

Cabana had tried to enter the theater with a ticket and hit the supervisor with a closed fist after he was escorted out, in keeping with police sources.

A manhunt for Cabana stays underway since his violent assault on the MoMA.

On Monday, panic briefly erupted at a Manhattan church after a 911 caller instructed authorities he had seen Cabana go inside.

One of the museum stabbing victims being taken out of the building on March 12, 2022.
One of many museum stabbing victims being taken out of the constructing on March 12, 2022.
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The decision prompted the evacuation of St. Francis of Assisi Church on West thirty first Road simply earlier than midday as police looked for Cabana pew by pew. Police sources instructed The Submit they discovered a person that appeared like Cabana, however it was not him.

“We’re in search of him,” the supply added. “We’ll get him.”

The fugitive stays energetic on social media, posting weird ramblings that talked about bipolar dysfunction and claimed the allegations have been a “complete body job” by officers on the museum.

NYPD at St. Francis of Assisi Church after getting a tip that Cabana hat entered the church.
NYPD at St. Francis of Assisi Church after getting a tip that Cabana hat entered the church.
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Cabana despatched a sequence of direct messages to a New York Submit worker on Sunday evening, through which he claimed he “misplaced it” on Saturday when the MOMA workers refused to let him into the famed museum to see Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Starry Evening.”

He blamed the victims for the assault, saying they conspired with a girl named “Barbara,” whom he claimed lied to get his museum membership revoked.

“The stabbed women have been in on the BACKSTABBING too,” Cabana wrote in his message. “I don’t backstab, I do the frontside solely.”

He denied inflicting any disturbances on the museum within the two cases that led to the revocation of his membership. He stated he was “utterly blindsided” by a letter from the museum’s safety director that stated he was “aggressive [and] disruptive” on Feb. 24 and final Wednesday.

Cabana allegedly flipped out when he was turned away round 4 p.m. whereas making an attempt to get right into a screening of “Bringing Up Child” on the museum, authorities stated. Each victims — a person and girl, each 24 — have been taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.

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