Customer Stabs New Jersey Bakery Brothers Over Four-Year-Old Order

Two brothers who own Baladna Bakery in Paterson, New Jersey, were stabbed by a customer upset over a sandwich order from four years ago. The customer was angry about receiving an eggplant sandwich instead of an egg sandwich, which he claimed made him ill due to an allergy. During the altercation on July 31, the 46-year-old brother was stabbed in the chest, puncturing his lung, and the 41-year-old brother was slashed in the arm while trying to intervene. Both were hospitalized at St. Joseph's University Medical Center, with one brother still in critical condition and the other recovering. The attacker fled the scene and has not been identified or arrested, with police urging anyone with information to contact the Paterson Police Department. Community members and local officials expressed shock at the violence, describing the bakery owners as kind individuals, and investigations are ongoing.