Kerri Aherne told police she has spent most of her adult life in mental hospitals. In summer 2024, she walked out of a Massachusetts mental hospital on a temporary leave pass and hopped an Uber to

I am being tortured by the government,” she insisted. “They put words into my head. They told me that I had to kill or they would kill me.”

The victim was changing her 10-month-old daughter’s diaper in a bathroom at Macy’s flagship Herald Square store when she was repeatedly stabbed in the back.

Aherne, 43, was hit with charges of attempted murder, assault, and weapons possession in Manhattan Criminal Court.

The homeless woman charged with stabbing a mother inside a bathroom at Macy's in NYC has a history of mental illness and claimed voices told her she had to kill someone or be killed.