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Random attacks on New York transit have soared since 2020, and the reason is often violent psychosis that severs a person’s link to reality. Such symptoms were on display after Sunday night’s mass knifing at Penn Station, which injured five people. To wit: the morning after the attack, Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani were delusionally raving.
Sunday’s alleged Penn Station attacker, Hector Deleon, 51, has a history of violence. In 2022, he pled guilty in New Jersey to stabbing a victim in the neck, after that person ordered him off private property following previous thefts.
Stabbing someone in the neck — the victim needed nine stitches — isn’t exactly a non-violent crime. But a judge gave him probation, and ordered him to continue mental-health treatment and perform community service.
That didn’t take. He faced rearrest last month for stealing from a Jersey Dunkin’ tip jar, but went free again despite his history.
Deleon is crazy but maybe not that crazy: possibly upset about his looming court appearance next week on that charge, he somehow made his way to New York, armed, to harm as many people as he could in a high-profile location.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. Nicole is the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, available now.