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A Shock on the Upper West Side: A Hate‑Crime Stabbing and Its Consequences
July 25, 2026
A man named Raul Morales, 51, was taken into custody after a series of knife attacks that shocked the Upper West Side. During one afternoon, he stabbed an Asian man on W. 84th St. and then, minutes later, used a screwdriver to wound a Jewish man near a synagogue on Amsterdam Ave. The police say Mora
