A 62-year-old woman was critically injured after she was repeatedly stabbed by another woman with a kitchen knife inside a Columbia University building Thursday afternoon.
The victim was arguing with her attacker, who cops described as an acquaintance, when the woman brought out the weapon and began assaulting her just before 4 p.m. inside the lobby of Jerome L. Greene Hall, at 435 West 116th St., police said.
The attacker stabbed the 62-year-old once in the right breast, right thigh and right shoulder and slashed her once across her neck and once on her right hand, law enforcement sources said.
The woman was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in critical, but stable condition, according to authorities.
The woman who attacked her, who sources said was one year younger than the victim, was taken into custody.
Charges were still pending early Friday.
Police also recovered the kitchen knife at the scene.
Both women have no affiliation to Columbia University, according to the Columbia Spectator.
It’s unclear why the women were inside the college building at the time of the attack.
The entrance to the building near where the stabbing occurred was closed Thursday night, according to the college newspaper.
“There is no doubt that an incident like this—involving physical violence—is jarring and upsetting,” Law School Dean Gillian Lester wrote in an email to the law students and faculty obtained by the Spectator. “I also want to extend our collective concern to the person injured, with the sincere hope that they will make a full and complete recovery.”
