Filmmaker Transferred To Psych Ward

The 21-year-old filmmaker who lashed out against a Muslim New York City cab driver, stabbing him in the throat, neck and arm, is being relocated from jail to a psychiatric ward.

Officials said Michael Enright was admitted to the psychiatric ward at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital from his jail cell on Ricker Island late Thursday night.

Enright recently returned from filming in Afghanistan before the violent attack on the Bangladeshi cab driver Ahmed H. Sharif. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg met with Sharif at City Hall where the he said a motive for the attack is still unknown, but suggested it was connected with the ongoing debate over the construction of an Islamic center near ground zero.