NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police arrested a man suspected of going on a weekend stabbing spree at the Museum of Modern Art and setting a hotel room on fire in Philadelphia.
The days-long manhunt ended early Tuesday in Philadelphia, where Gary Cabana, 60, was arrested at a Greyhound bus terminal in the Center City neighborhood, police said.
Philadelphia police found Cabana sleeping on a bench at the bus terminal around 1:30 a.m.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said Cabana was wanted for setting fire to a hotel room earlier Monday evening—and that’s how Philly police found out the NYPD was searching for him in the museum stabbing.
“Fire department personnel, police personnel, through an investigation they determined who checked into that room,” Small said. “They were able to determine that this individual may have been the male that was wanted for two stabbings in Manhattan, New York.”
The fire was set on the fifth floor of a room at the Best Western Center City shortly before 6 p.m. No one was injured.
Cabana is now facing an arson charge in Philadelphia. Charges against him are pending in New York, where police said they will seek extradition.
Police believe Cabana is the man who stabbed two employees at MoMA in Midtown. He reportedly messaged a New York Post reporter while on the lam, telling the reporter that he “lost it” when the victims denied him entry to see Van Gogh's “Starry Night.”
Surveillance video from the Saturday afternoon stabbing showed Cabana leaping over a desk in the museum's entrance and assaulting the two victims, a 24-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, after police said his membership had been revoked due to two recent incidents of disorderly conduct.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller said Cabana “became upset about not being allowed entrance and then jumped over the reception desk and proceeded to attack and stab two employees of the museum multiple times.”
A female victim was stabbed in the lower back and neck, while the male victim was stabbed in the left collar bone, police said. Both were taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition and are recovering.
Cabana reportedly posted a lengthy rant to his Facebook page appearing to downplay the frightening scene at the museum, writing, “It wasn’t SCREAM 6 at MoMA it was poke poke poke wake-up call. y [sic] the frame job MoMA, get yer facts straight.”
He also mocked police on Instagram and responded to commentators who urged him to turn himself in to police.
"They knew who I was all along but the morons wasted hours searching the museum when I was OBVIOUSLY LONG GONE with hundreds of witnesses WATCHING but no HEROES in the crowd that day," Cabana said in a since-deleted post. “NYC has turned in to a bunch of MIND-YO-BIDNESS P******.”
MoMA reopened Tuesday after being closed since the stabbing. The museum thanked the public for their “incredible support.”
A police car and a security guard were stationed at the entrance the suspect barged through on Saturday. Guests lined up at another museum entrance down the block ad there were hundreds on line when it opened at 10:30 a.m., WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.
"I've been a member here for 23 years," said museum member Henry Pierre, who knows the employees who were injured. "Things have gotten really out of hand and people are cracking, so yes, I was saddened, but not surprised given the pressure cooker that we are in."
The museum released a statement following the arrest of Cabana in expressing relief and gratitude that their colleagues are recovering.
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