November 21, 2024 MANHATTAN, New York – Joshua Zinberg, 25, accused of slashing a 55-year-old man in the face during a random knife attack, was arrested after turned into police by mother on Wednesday evening.
According to police officials, the victim is a Danish tourist and former professional soccer player who was in the city while walking with friends near W 86th Street & Columbus Avenue when the attack occurred just before 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday morning.
The attack suspect spit towards media waiting outside the precinct and when asked what his thoughts were on his own mother turning him into police Zinberg replied “That’s for all you. You do it for the clicks? Right?”
Zinberg has since been charged with attempted murder along with assault and was seen in handcuffs, escorted out of the 20th Precinct in Manhattan by NYPD Detectives to a waiting jail transport vehicle.