Macy's stabbing suspect has history of mental illness, was released from psych ward day of attack

The stateless Massachusetts pistillate charged successful the stabbing of different pistillate successful the bath of Macy's successful New York City has a past of intelligence illness, was released from a psychiatric infirmary hours earlier the onslaught and claimed voices successful her caput said she "had to kill someone" oregon beryllium killed.

Kerri Aherne, 43, allegedly stabbed a California pistillate successful the backmost connected Thursday arsenic she was changing her babe wrong a bath successful the iconic Macy's Herald Square. 

The victim, who has lone been identified by her employment with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital and was discharged connected Friday.

Aherne was charged with attempted murder, 2 counts of assault, transgression possession of a limb and endangering the payment of a kid successful transportation with what constabulary person described arsenic an unprovoked attack. She is being held without bail.

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Kerri Aherne was charged with attempted murder, 2 counts of assault, transgression possession of a limb and endangering the payment of a kid successful transportation with a stabbing onslaught astatine Macy's successful NYC. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Court records amusement Aherne, whose past known code was successful Tewksbury, Massachusetts, has a agelong past of struggling with intelligence illness.

Prosecutors said successful a transgression ailment that Aherne told constabulary she had been discharged from Manhattan Psychiatric Center the greeting of Thursday's stabbing aft a yearlong stay.

Aherne said she near Massachusetts successful an Uber successful the summertime of 2024 portion retired of a infirmary connected a impermanent permission pass, according to the prosecution's bail application. The prosecution besides stated that Aherne said she could not tolerate hospitals immoderate longer and would alternatively spell to situation than beryllium returned to a hospital.

She besides allegedly said she purchased a weapon astatine Macy's and looked for idiosyncratic to termination due to the fact that "voices successful her caput told her she had to kill someone, oregon she would beryllium killed."

In 2019, records amusement she was deemed an incapacitated person, and her parent and sister were appointed arsenic her guardians, according to the New York Post.

Aherne was placed connected a court-ordered attraction program to guarantee she continues taking Prolixin, an antipsychotic medicine utilized to dainty schizophrenia, the records show.

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Kerri Aherne has a agelong past of struggling with intelligence illness, according to authorities. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

Her Facebook has been inactive since 2018. In 1 of her past posts, she wrote, "Going a small insane," on with a inactive from a Michael Jackson video.

That aforesaid year, Aherne was arrested for posting connected Facebook astir sidesplitting Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and getting a weapon to sprout idiosyncratic astatine a section constabulary station, according to the bail application. 

Aherne was arraigned connected Friday, erstwhile her lawyer told the tribunal helium plans to petition bail astatine a aboriginal hearing.

Kerri Aherne allegedly said she purchased a weapon and looked for idiosyncratic to termination due to the fact that "voices successful her caput told her she had to kill someone, oregon she would beryllium killed." (Kylie Cooper/Reuters)

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When the justice said she would beryllium held without bail until her adjacent tribunal appearance, Aherne interrupted and begged not to beryllium sent to different intelligence wellness facility, the New York Post reported.

"I don’t privation to spell to different hospital," Aherne said. "They didn’t assistance maine astatine Manhattan Psychiatric Center."

She is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Dec. 17.