New York City Crime

Kerri Aherne has been charged in the Herald Square Macy’s bathroom stabbing; prosecutors say she bought the knife at the store, told police voices instructed her to “kill or be killed,” has a history of mental illness and was released from a psychiatric ward the day of the attack, and had a prior 2018 Massachusetts arrest over Facebook threats against Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The victim, a California tourist whose 10-month-old fell from a changing table and was treated for forehead swelling, and her husband — both Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employees from Jurupa Valley — helped subdue Aherne until store security arrived, and Macy’s has bolstered security including an expanded NYPD detail.

Frederick Green, 20, of the Bronx, was arraigned late Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges in the shooting of New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd and is being held without bail. Prosecutors say surveillance shows Green masking up, removing a gun from a backpack and firing two shots that struck Boyd in the abdomen — a bullet lodged in his pulmonary artery and moved into a lung — before Green fled to Buffalo, hid at a girlfriend’s apartment, attempted to jump from a window as U.S. Marshals closed in and ultimately surrendered; police say Boyd and his friends were unarmed and the confrontation began after others mocked their clothing.