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Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, Dec. 29, 2019. Thomas is accused of stabbing multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)
ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY Grafton Thomas, the Orange County resident accused of a bloody machete attack on people celebrating Hanukkah in a Monsey rabbi s basement in 2019, is unfit to stand trial, prosecutors have conceded.
Prosecutors told the federal court for the Southern District of New York that eight months of treatment had been unsuccessful, the Daily News reported. The paper quoted Assistant U.S. Atorney Lindsey Keenan s letter to the court acknowledging that it isn t probable Thomas will attain the capacity to stand trial on the federal attempted murder and hate-crime charges against him.
Hanukkah stabbing suspect still unfit to stand trial a year after NY attack
By Jim Mustian article
Suspect in Hanukkah celebration stabbings, Thomas Grafton, leaves the Ramapo Town Hall in Airmont, New York after being arrested on Dec. 29, 2019. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a hearing to decide whether to civilly commit the man charged with stabbing five people with a machete at a suburban New York Hanukkah celebration in 2019.
A recent psychiatric evaluation found Grafton Thomas remains mentally unfit to stand trial despite months of hospitalization at a federal facility in Missouri, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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