Suspect in fatal Hanukkah machete attack declared mentally unfit for trial

By Zach Halaschak

Published April 21, 2020 1:01am ET

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Suspect in fatal Hanukkah machete attack declared mentally unfit for trial — Ramapo police officers escort Grafton Thomas from Ramapo Town Hall to a police vehicle, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Ramapo, N.Y. Thomas is accused of stabbing multiple people as they gathered to celebrate Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in the Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. | (Julius Constantine Motal/AP)

The suspect from last year’s Hanukkah stabbing in New York has been deemed unfit for trial and will receive mental health treatment.

In a Monday court order, U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Seibel declared that the suspect, 37-year-old Grafton Thomas, will be taken to a facility to decide if he “will attain the capacity to permit criminal proceedings to go forward against him,” according to ABC News.

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