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Manhattan’s Upper East Side witnessed
a bloody incident on Tuesday night, when 56-year-old psychologist Kathryn
Faughey was killed at her office on East 79th Street. Another therapist who
witnessed the attack and tried to intervene got serious injuries on his face and
had to be taken to the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill/Cornell.
Police investigators arrived at
the scene found the possible murder weapons, a meat cleaver and a knife, but
the suspect was nowhere to be found. The motive for the horrible crime remains
unknown and it still remains unclear whether the murderer was one of Faughey’s
patients.
According to the investigators,
the attack took place at around 9 p.m. in an apartment building at the corner
of York Avenue. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene after a doorman reported
the incident to the authorities.
Kathryn Faughey, who lived just
across the street from her office, was attacked and stabbed to death multiple
times. One of her work colleagues, who tried to come to her aid, ended up in
the hospital with serious wounds, but is expected to survive.
According to police
investigators at the scene, the killer clearly was very angry and it was probably
a personal matter that drove him into the mad killing. This could mean that the
victim was attacked by one of her patients, but that has not been confirmed
yet.
The suspect was seriously
deranged, as he managed to bend the murder weapons during the assault,
according to the police. “The place was trashed,” a police source said
according to nydailynews.com. “There was some violent struggle. Her blood was
all over her office.”
According to witnesses, the
suspect fled through the basement, but the investigators haven’t managed to get
a hold of him yet, and he is still at large. All of Faughey’s friends,
colleagues and neighbors were in shock after the terrible incident.
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