NEW WINDSOR, NY – Police have arrested 35-year-old Andrew Goodenough after he used a box-cutter to slit a stranger’s throat in a New York grocery store.
The incident happened inside a Shoprite on Saturday morning when Goodenough walked behind a man he did not know and slit the man’s throat in the produce aisle.
Goodenough dropped the knife then calmly walked to another part of the store, leaving 35-year-old Michael Kohus to bleed to death on the floor. There were around 250 people in the store at the time, so Kohus was discovered within minutes after being attacked.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything anyone could do and Kohus was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital. Police quickly sealed off the store as they searched for a suspect and screened customers before letting them leave.
Using the store’s surveillance cameras, police were able to identify Goodenough as their suspect and take him into custody as he tried blending in with other shoppers. Goodenough is now being held without bail at Orange County Jail, facing a second-degree murder charge.
Officials said there was no altercation, no arguing, and no apparent connection between the two men. They added that police had previous run-ins with Goodenough where he was asked to leave areas because he was acting suspicious, but he has no previous arrests.
One of Goodenough’s neighbors described him as a “troubled man” with an unstable temper. “I stopped hanging out with him because he does flip, he does like a 180,” the neighbor said.
A vigil was held for Kohus on Sunday night in Highland Falls. “He didn’t deserve this,” said his sister, Christina Kohus Stradley. “He never did a bad thing in his life,” added his mother, Marylou Kohus.
We reported on an almost identical story out of Maryland last year, in which 31-year-old Connor MacCalister walked into a Shaw’s supermarket and slit the throat of 59-year-old Wendy Boudreau.
Boudreau would die from her injuries and MaCalister would be charged with her murder. MacCalister would later tell police that she was off her meds and had been planning to kill someone for months because she was “angry with life.” She targeted the mother of five because she had “looked at her funny” in the parking lot.
In November of last year, MacCalister would be sentenced to life in prison.
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