The homeless man who has been charged with stabbing a 36-year-old mom who was chaperoning a group of schoolgirls on a class trip in Times Square on Saturday has been arrested 14 times in the last 20 years, according to the New York Post.
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Amber Lohr, from western Pennsylvania, had just left a souvenir shop with her daughter and other schoolgirls when Cyril Destin, 61, seated at a deli at Eight Avenue and 43rd Street, jumped to his feet and allegedly stabbed her directly through her sweatshirt and into her chest. Lohr, with blood from her chest seeping through her sweatshirt, still kept her composure and made sure the children were safe before she told anyone she had been stabbed. A bystander then ran for aid; Lohr was treated on the sidewalk before she was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
“My wife not only had taken the stabbing but should also be considered a hero by remaining in front of the children, coaching them to go backwards without turning around,” Lohr’s husband John told the New York Post, adding of the bystander, “Whomever she was, thank you.” He also thanked the “strong and fearless” schoolgirls for maintaining their composure and helping even though they were “scared out of their minds.”
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“We don’t feel safe there,” John Lohr said of Times Square. “A guy with a very lengthy record went out of nowhere and attacked my wife by stabbing her into the chest and within inches of her life being lost. … This man could have murdered my wife or even worse, one of the children she was chaperoning.“To think I could have been planning a funeral rather celebrating my wife on Mother’s Day is sickening to me.”
Destin reportedly lives in a homeless shelter across from the deli. He was charged with second-degree assault, along with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
“This man will strike again and maybe the next person may not be as fortunate,” John Lohr stated. “I will not accept anything but the max sentence for him. This man doesn’t only need to be jailed but institutionalized permanently following his well-deserved lengthy sentencing.”
