PEARL RIVER - James Sheridan and another man were socializing on East Central Avenue two days before Christmas when their conversation took a turn for the worse, Orangetown police said Thursday.

Capt. Donald Butterworth said he couldn't say whether the two men had been drinking at one of the local bars in the hamlet's downtown business district before Sheridan allegedly stabbed the other man several times.

"They were on the sidewalk when it happened," Butterworth said of the stabbing, which happened at 11:37 p.m. Dec. 23. "They may have been at a bar" beforehand.

He said the victim has since been released from Nyack Hospital. Officers recovered the weapon and arrested Sheridan at the scene.

Sheridan has been charged by a Rockland grand jury with felony counts of second-degree attempted murder and assault in the first and second degree. He has been released on $75,000 bail pending an arraignment in Rockland County Court.

The Orangetown Police Detective Bureau is asking any witnesses to the incident or to the events that led up to the fight to contact Detective Dan Ryan at 845-359-2121, Ext. 3522

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