The judge should reduce it. $1,050,000 is an awful lot. I saw reduce it to an even $1,000,000. That seems like a better amount. It's not like the scumbag can come up with it anyway. He should be burned, and stabbed just like he did to that woman and the cat

The nerve of her to try and get his bail reduced!!

Of course! reduce his bail. Apparently when he was arrested and charged for the cat mutilation he was deemed free to walk amongst us as if he was a member of society with a small deviation. Law enforcement and public defenders are a huge issue. If we are certain he was the stabber....NO BAIL, NO TRIAL

This is scary. So close to home and no apparant reason for doing these things. Has to be high on something to hurt innocent animals and innocent people. Hope they hate cat killers in jail. At least the dirtbag is off our streets now not that it's any condolence to the poor woman and her family. My heart breaks for them. When are we going to wake up and figure out we need to do something? If animal killers are just being let go there is something seriously wrong.

Somehow this scum has 206 friends on Facebook? If I were one of them I'd be hitting the DELETE button quick.

My prayers for Ms Dalton. This could have easily been another Newtown incident. This man is sick. Our goverment needs to step up and protect us all by stepping in early. This guy didn't just harm an animal. He planned and carried out a sick act that officials ignored. He should have been locked up and evaluated! I can't imagine what would have happened if his mother had an assault rifle in the closet. The warning signs were there.

I want to know motive. Why is that not even discussed in any of the stories, and don't give me some BS about him being crazy. That is not good enough.
Young pretty white woman... attacked for no good reason by a black man. Hmmm.... racism one possible motive? Why is the media not jumping to conclusions like they did with the Treyvon Martin case?

What kind of rage must this loser have in him to stab a stranger 12 times.

Throw the book at him and let him rot in jail.

Why isn't this on the front page of all newspapers like the incidents with the guns. Perhaps it demonstrates that the solution to these acts of violence is not gun control but to address the mentally ill people that are drugged and living amoungst us without the appropriate supervision and oversight. There is one theme that is consistent in all of these incidents (the shootings in the schools, movie theaters and the pushing of people into the train tracks, this stabbing) a mentally ill person committed the crime. This one had no gun so to solve this problem are we going to close all Bed Bath and Beyond Store stores and require a backround check to buy a kitchen knife.??? Let 's fix the real problem, the legal system should not let these people go free and pychiatrists should disclose when a person has shown tendencies to carry out such unprovoked acts of violence. Until this is addressed the violence will just be carried out by other means, bombings etc.
Wake up everyone force your government to address the issues correctly!!!!!

I smell an insanity plea coming..This guy looked and sounded like a zomvie extra from the Walking Dead..Anyone who burns a defenseless animal alive and then goes after a woman minding her business shopping with her child should seriously be locked up for a good long time! I would LOVE to hear what the idiotic judge that let him go after he was caught killing a cat on Christmas has to say about this latest crime! He really should have been behind bars already..All this crime and he's only 19??!! Where the HELL are his parents? You mean to tell me they could not figure out something is "off" about their kid??!! I hope and pray that they lock this degenerate up for a LONG time and I pray that the woman stabbed makes a full recovery and can move past this and get on with her life and live happily while this scumbag rots in prison!

His Mom is PLEASED he isnt out on the streets and she hopes he goes away for a very very long time...the kid is mental and his mom should have gotten him help or went to his hearing about the cat case and ask he get put in psych instead of out on bail...This is NOT a case of racism..he was staking out the shoppers entering the store..he was there walkin around with his head down and finally went after someone..How about the question of why the hell didnt anyone try and stop him in the store during the attack?? sure people called 911, but to let that sick ass walk calmly out those doors and walk across the street to his house?? I would have stepped in if I was there...have done it MANY Times in the past

Amazing what people say when they dont know all the facts....his family DID try to get him help...but NJ laws make it impossible....he not scum...he has serious problems. I pray Mrs. Dalton is ok....and as a Christian I pray for him and his family as well.

This man lived across the street from a nursery school. He brutally torched a cat to death and was left to roam the streets. Thank God the victim is going to live. Yes, this could happen anywhere but why? It's common knowledge that murderers start with animals first. Why wasn't this man behind bars. Where are the animal rights activists when you need them?

He was 18 and an adult - his family couldn't have done anything anyway. There's a huge gap in our mental health system with young adults in both both mandatory treatment and coverage. This could have very easily been a massacre. When are we going to realize its not about guns or knives or weapons at all...its about mental health.

I wonder if this will be considered a hate crime. Oh I forgot, it's only a hate crime if it's the other way around.

Mentally ill or not, if it was a defenseless black woman attacked by some white trash 18yr old man sharpton and the rest of the idiots would be screaming for race justice and you all know its true. Whens the last time any large group of white supporters rioted or rallied in support of violence towards a white person?? Never, why? Because white peope are afraid to be called bigots, but the blacks can get away with it and do, nobody will say a word. You righteous fools can say what you want but you know it's true. You dont want the finger of racism pointed at you. Look at the crime and violence in predominately black towns, much different than the suburbs isnt it. This is why peoe are outraged that the low income housing is here because it atteacts the animals from those areas, not say all of those people are not hard working, but the rest bring their animal like behaviour here. Nobody ever pointed out that the POS who murdered white Lynn Moretti a few months ago was black. Once again, white people are sheep, afraid to speak up because of the past of slavery. Get over it, it was a loookoong time ago and our generation has nothing to do with it, yetwe sit in silence while our people suffer.

I agree,I totally think this was just a random act of violence,nothing to do with race..I also want to say I am really sick of hearing how "the system failed" this monster..I'm sure to ruffle feather and tick people off but so be it BUT when I was 19 my parents knew what shenanigans I was up to before my feet hit the floor! And seriously,you're kid was just arrested for torturing and burning a cat alive on Christmas and you do not take him to the nearest mental ward OR call police and tell them to lock him up? I'm sorry maybe I'm naive but I think it is a parents job to raise and look after your kid and not the systems job..I'm sure Mom tried to do something,she would have to be as bad as him if she didn't but I really find it hard to believe that a 19 year old animal abuser and soon to be murderer could not have gotten some kind of help or the good butt kicking he needed from someone..Maybe I'm still living in the past but thats just my opinion.

Having babies is a responsbility not a right and our society has forgotten that. People don't want to be responsible for raising their own children. That's why our school taxes are out of hand. We expect the schools to educate, teach manners, life lessons etc. Its become ridiculous.

So, its not the weapons, its the person holding it, insanity! My heart goes out to the family

The weapons don't do damage on their own.

It's that damn 1%, at it again.

LETS START WITH THE JUDGE WHO LET THIS MENTALY DISABLED MAN OUT OF JAIL AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TORCHING AND KILLING THE CAT. SOMEONE NEEDS TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED THERE. BECAUSE IN LESS THAN A MONTH HE STABS THIS BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE BACK MORE THAN ONCE. THIS MENTALY DISABLED MAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO LOWER LEVEL ONE AT RIVERVIEW AND HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HELD THERE TILL HIS COURT DATE FOR KILLING THE CAT. THERE HE COULD HAVE BEEN EVALUATED AND AT THAT COURT DATE THE DOCTORS COULD HAVE GIVEN THERE OPINION ON HIS RELEASE. THUS AVOIDING THE CARNAGE AT BED BATH & BEYOND. THE OTHER FACT IS THAT PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO INTERVENE IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS BECAUSE THE GOVERMENT DOES NOT WANT US TO PROTECT OURSELVES. AS STATISTICS GO THE INCIDENT IS OVER BY THE TIME POLICE ARE NOTIFIED. .

THE POLICE ARE ACTUALY THE SECOND RESPONDERS UNLESS THEY SEE THE CRIME HAPPENING IN FRONT OF THEM. THE BYSTANDERS IN THE STORE OR SEE AN INCIDENT HAPPEN ARE THE FIRST RESPONDERS. IF THE GOVERMENT WOULD ALLOW LAW ABIDING CITIZENS TO CARRY CONCEALED WEAPONS THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN STABBED ONLY ONCE BEFORE HE WAS CONFRONT WITH A LAW ABIDING PERSON CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON. WHEN A DRUNK DRIVER OR A PERSON KILLS SOMEONE WITH A CAR THEY DO NOT BAN CARS THEY FINE OR IMPRISON THE PERSON. THERE ARE MORE DEATHS BY KNIVES THAN GUNS BUT YET DO THEY BAN KNIVES NO THEY GO AFTER THE PERSON WHO IS DOING THE STABBING. THE DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT GUNS BECAUSE THEY WANT ALL THE CITIZENS TO RELY ON THE GOVERMENT FOR HELP. WHICH NEVER COMES IN TIME. THIS COUNTRY IS ON A DOWNWARD SPIRAL FOR GUN OWNERS IT IS ALL A BIG MONEY GRAB. IF I WAS AT THE STORE I WOULD HAVE INTERVINED EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT ARMED. I WOULD HAVE PICKED SOMETHING UP IN THAT STORE TO HIT HIM WITH AND IF I DID GET STABBED AT LEAST HE WAS NOT STABBING THAT POOR WOMAN. INCIDENTS LIKE THIS COULD BE MINIMIZED IF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WERE ALLOWED TO CARRY CONCEALED WEAPONS

Would love to have an Irish conversation with this scumbag who stabbed this poor mother 12x in front of her baby and burned to death an innocent cat.

Can someone please point me to the article that his Mother tried to get him help?

People close to the story know that she tried to get her son help. My heart goes out to everyone involved.