Shocking footage captures the moment a knife-wielding maniac lunged at officers inside a Manhattan courthouse Monday, slashing two in the neck and face.
The crazed suspect, identified as Jonathan Wohl, 37, of Queens, is seen calmly approaching the metal detectors in Manhattan Criminal court around 9:30 a.m. – but then suddenly pounces on a court officer, video obtained by The Post shows.
The maniac then turns and brutally attacks the second officer, stabbing him repeatedly before he gets tackled into a barrier near the entrance of the courthouse.
Several other officers are then seen taking the unhinged attacker to the ground and putting him in handcuffs, the clip shows.
Law enforcement sources said the accused assailant did not have a scheduled hearing at the 100 Centre Street courthouse and a motive for the assault is not known – although officials called it “targeted.”
“The assaults, captured on surveillance video, appeared preliminarily to be a targeted attack of the uniformed officers working security details at the courthouse,” a spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration said in a statement. “Several court officers immediately rushed to stop the assailant, subduing him near a bank of magnetometers, disarming him and taking him into custody.”
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Wohl has 18 prior arrests, with three open criminal cases and has been a nuisance at the courthouse, “always harassing the court officers,” the sources said.
The injured officers were hospitalized and are in stable condition, they said.
