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A New Jersey mother shopping with her baby at a Bed Bath and Beyond store was brutally attacked by a knife-wielding man with a history of violent behavior, police say.
Kerri Dalton, 29, had been upgraded Saturday from critical to good condition after being stabbed more than 20 times in the grisly, and apparently random, Thursday attack at a store in Middletown, N.J. Both Dalton’s lungs were punctured but her 5-month-old baby, who was in a baby carriage, was unharmed, authorities say.
Dalton was somehow able to phone 911 as she laid bloody on the ground, and police later arrested Tyrik Haynes, 19, in connection with the attack. He was charged with attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail.
Haynes, of Middletown, N.J. was facing trial next month on charges of torching a cat to death. Authorities told the Asbury Park Press that Haynes adopted the cat online, then took it in its carrier into the woods near his home on Christmas Eve and set the helpless animal ablaze using a lighter and an aerosol can.
We found the cat a week and a half ago in the wooded area,” said Victor Amato of the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “It was dead from the burns.”
Authorities are still unclear why Dalton was targeted, but her family said the new mother was fighting through.
"She's holding up, she's strong, she's a fighter, she's my best friend," Dalton’s husband Roger told CBS New York on Friday. "I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers."
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