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Man Found Incompetent For Trial In Rockland County Machete Murder, Attack, DA Says Man Found Incompetent For Trial In Rockland County Machete Murder, Attack, DA Says
Man Found Incompetent For Trial In Rockland County Machete Murder, Attack, DA Says A Hudson Valley man will spend at least another two years in a psychiatric facility after being found incompetent to stand trial for murder for a second time in the 2019 machete attack during a Hanukkah party. Grafton Thomas, age 35, of Orange County, is charged in Rockland County with the Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019 killing of Josef Neumann, age 72, after allegedly stabbing five people at the Hasidic rabbi’s Forshay Road, Monsey home during a Hanukkah celebration. Thomas, whose family said he had a long history of severe mental illness and suffered from schizophrenia, also faces six count…

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Rockland DA Moves To Remove Monsey Machete Attacker's Attorney Rockland DA Moves To Remove Monsey Machete Attacker's Attorney
Rockland DA Moves To Remove Monsey Machete Attacker's Attorney Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh II has filed a motion to remove the attorney who is representing the man accused in the Monsey machete attack. Walsh filed the motion on Tuesday, Jan. 28, to remove Micheal Sussman, who's been representing Grafton Thomas, the man accused of federal hate crimes in the Monsey Hanukkah attack in December that left one man in a coma. In a statement, the district attorney said Sussman should be removed  "on the grounds that Mr. Sussman is now a civilian witness in this case by conducting a 'search' and removing 'evidence' (that goes to his…

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Condition Of Critically Injured Hanukkah Stabbing Victim 'Dire,' Family Says Condition Of Critically Injured Hanukkah Stabbing Victim 'Dire,' Family Says
Condition Of Critically Injured Hanukkah Stabbing Victim 'Dire,' Family Says The family of the Hanukkah stabbing attack in Rockland County who remains critically injured said his condition is dire and he may not regain consciousness. Josef Neumann, 71, remains hospitalized following the attack late Saturday night, Dec. 28 at the home of a rabbi at 47 Forshay Road in Monsey. Four others suffered non-critical injuries. "Our father Mr. Josef Neumann was severely stabbed multiple times during the mass attack Saturday night,” the statement said. “The knife penetrated his skull directly into the brain. He also suffered three cuts to the head, one cut to the neck, and his …

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by Joe Lombardi