Yao Pan Ma, 61 (pictured in April), died on December 31, eight months after being attacked
Yao Pan Ma, 61
Ma died on December 31, eight months after he was brutally beaten by a homeless criminal in April 2021.
A Chinese immigrant, he was left in critical condition and placed in a medical coma after 49-year-old Jarod Powell stepped on his head at least six times while Ma was collecting cans to make money for his family.
“I cried when I saw him in the hospital with his face on. He is still crying, “his wife, Baozhen Chen, said in April. “I hope he wakes up and talks to me, gets well and comes home. It’s really hard to believe.
His death was defined as murder.
Powell was detained at the Men’s Homeless Shelter on Ward just days after the April attack and was initially charged with second-degree murder and two counts of assault.
Powell has been arrested 15 times since 1988.
Joseph Borgen
Joseph Borgen was beaten by a group of five men shouting anti-Semitic epithets while on his way to a pro-Israel demonstration
Borgen, an accountant living on the Upper East Side, wore a gray statue and was walking to Times Square around 6:30 p.m. on May 20, 2021, when he claimed that a young man in a black bandana had started chasing him.
“I turned around to try to figure out what was going on, and the next thing I knew, I was surrounded by a crowd of people who kept physically attacking me, beating me, kicking me, hitting me, hitting me with crutches. “Let them hit me with flags,” he told DailyMail.com.
“I thought I was going to die. I thought I was really going to die.
Borgen said eight to 10 people were involved in the crackdown, and they shouted anti-Semitic insults such as, “You filthy Jew. We’ll kill you to hell. Return to Israel. Hamas will kill you.
Faisal Elezzi, 25, of Staten Island, is charged with assault as a hate crime, threat as a hate crime and harassment as a hate crime.
Vassim Avaudeh, 23, was the first man to be arrested for the violent attack and charged with assault as a hate crime, gang attack, threatening harassment, aggravating harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Prosecutors say he told a prisoner: “If I could do it again, I would do it again. I have no problem doing it again.
Exclusive photos of DailyMail.com show Avaude wearing a black T-shirt with the words “Palestine” on the front as he was taken out of the 5th district in handcuffs
Wilma Kari
Wilma Curry’s vicious racist attack (right) was caught on camera last year. Her daughter Elizabeth (left) says a good Samaritan lured her attacker
Wilma Carrie was 65 on March 29, 2021, when a man later identified as Brandon Elliott kicked and stepped on her while shouting anti-Asian insults in front of a building in new York.
Footage of the horrific attack caught the country’s attention, especially as it showed porters in a nearby building who seemed not only to ignore the violence, but also to close Wilma by closing the door.
She was hospitalized and treated for serious injuries, which required a walker to leave later that day.
Brandon Elliott, then 38, pleaded not guilty to charges of assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime.
He reportedly shouted anti-Asian insults and told her, “You don’t belong here,” before casually walking away.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35
Christina Yuna Lee, 35
Lee was found dead on Feb. 13 in the blood-soaked tub of her Chinatown apartment on the Lower East Side in New York City.
The 35-year-old Asian advertiser was cut to death by a homeless serial criminal who was released on bail.
Horrifying footage shows 25-year-old Asamad Nash sneaking into the building behind Lee after she got out of a taxi.
She entered the building, but didn’t realize that Nash – who didn’t seem to know his alleged victim – had slipped behind her after watching her get out of a taxi and followed her up six flights of stairs to her home.
Her death was not investigated as a hate crime, but it occurred during growing anti-Asian incidents in New York.
Michelle Alice Go, 40
Michelle Go, 40
Go, 40, was on the N / Q / R / W platform on West 42nd Street and Broadway around 9:40 a.m. on Jan. 15 when Marcial Simon, 61, pushed her from behind with both hands as she looked down at her phone, they said. authorities.
She was a senior strategy and operations management and acquisition manager at Deloitte Consulting, according to her LinkedIn.
She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree in economics and public policy and a master’s degree in business administration from New York University.
When Simon, who has a long criminal history, was asked by a reporter if he was the one who pushed Go, he said, “Yes, because I am God. Yes, I did it. I am God. I can do it.’