On Wednesday, a police officer in New York shot and critically injured a man suspected of several recent unprovoked hammer attacks on pedestrians after the suspect began swinging a hammer at his partner. Surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows the sudden attack, which took place on a crowded street between the Penn Station and Port Authority transit hubs at around 10 a.m., and officer Geraldo Casaigne’s response:
Per DNAInfo New York, suspect David Baril has reportedly been arrested eight times, including for a previous attack on a police officer, and was treated at a Manhattan mental health facility as recently as this winter.
