All posts tagged "Hatecrime"

CHICAGO — The man accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and severely injuring his mother days after the Hamas attack was indicted by a Will County grand jury on hate crime, murder and other charges, prosecutors said Thursday. Joseph Czuba, 71, faces three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of hate crime in connection with a knife attack that killed Wadea al-Fayoume and left his mother, Hanaan Shahin, hospitalized. Czuba, who was the family’s landlord, was pushed to attack his Mus......

NEW YORK — Hate crime charges have been filed against the teen who attacked an Israeli Columbia University student during an argument linked to the ongoing Israeli war, Manhattan prosecutors said Saturday. Maxwell Friedman, who uses she/her pronouns, was charged with assault in the second and third degrees as a hate crime, as well as harassment and weapons possession for the Wednesday evening attack outside a Columbia University residential hall on W. 116th St. near the Butler Library. Friedman’s victim, 24, was putting up fliers regarding the number of causalities in Israel and a photograph o......

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s tragic death, a new documentary has been announced to honor the posthumous impact made by the gay college student, who died after being abducted, beaten and left for dead in Laramie, Wyoming. Investigation Discovery announced Thursday that “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime” will premiere Oct. 9 at 9 p.m. ET. Featuring interviews with friends and allies, local journalists and community members, and even celebrities who were deeply affected by Shepard’s story — including Rosie O’Donnell, Andrew Rannells and Adam Lambert — the fi......

NEW YORK — A teen accused of fatally stabbing a gay Black man during a standoff at a Brooklyn gas station will likely tell jurors he was defending himself, his lawyer said Friday. Dmitriy Popov, 17, has been indicted on murder as a hate crime charges in the July 29 stabbing death of dancer O’Shae Sibley at the Mobil station on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue P in Midwood. Sibley, 28, was killed after a confrontation involving a crowd that objected when Sibley and his friends began dancing and performing vogue moves near the gas pumps. Cops said Popov plunged a knife into Sibley’s chest after s......

NEW YORK — The teen accused of fatally stabbing a gay black man claimed to be Muslim during a standoff over voguing at a Brooklyn gas station, though his family says he’s Christian. A conflicting portrait of Dmitriy Popov emerged Monday as the 17-year-old, who surrendered Friday with his lawyer, was arraigned as an adult defendant on murder charges and ordered held without bail. The Midwood teen tried to go on the lam for a week after the killing by shaving his head and shutting off his phone in a failed attempt to evade the law, Assistant District Attorney Sarah Jafari said in court. But the ......

NEW YORK — A U.S. Army veteran who violently assaulted several Asian women in an April 2022 hate crime rampage throughout Manhattan was sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in state prison on Monday. During a violent spree lasting nearly three hours, Steven Zajonc, 30, spewed racist insults when he punched, elbowed and shoved seven women of Asian descent aged 19 to 57 in the Midtown, Nolita and Greenwich Village neighborhoods, ambushing some from behind. At his Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing, Assistant District Attorney Neil Greenwell said Zajonc systematically picked out Asian women to attack as......