| Monsey Hanukkah stabbing | |
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| Location | Forshay Road, Monsey, New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 41°08′35″N 74°04′59″W / 41.1431514°N 74.0830215°W |
| Date | December 28, 2019 c. 10:00 p.m. (EST; UTC−05:00) |
| Target | People at a Hanukkah party |
Attack type | Mass stabbing, hate crime |
| Weapon | Machete |
| Deaths | 1 (Rabbi Josef Neumann)[a] |
| Injured | 4 |
| Accused | Grafton E. Thomas |
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On the night of December 28, 2019, the seventh night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, a masked man wielding a large knife or machete invaded the home of a Hasidic rabbi in Monsey, Rockland County, New York, where a Hanukkah party was underway, and began stabbing the guests. Five men were wounded, two of whom were hospitalized in critical condition. Party guests forced the assailant to flee by wielding chairs and a small table. Three months after the stabbing, the most severely injured stabbing victim, Rabbi Josef Neumann, aged 72, died of his wounds.
The suspect was captured shortly after the attack. He had a long history of serious mental illness and had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia the year before the attack. He was charged in state court with five counts of attempted murder and one count of first-degree burglary, and in federal court on federal hate crime charges. Judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial on both the state and the federal charges.
- ^ Paybarah, Azi (March 30, 2020). "Rabbi Dies Three Months After Hanukkah Night Attack". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 23, 2023. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
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