An
Army veteran with a long-simmering hatred of black men claimed
responsibility on Wednesday for using a sword to fatally stab a homeless
man in Manhattan this week, the police said, calling the attack random
and racially motivated.
The
suspect, James Harris Jackson, 28, of Baltimore, surrendered to the
police shortly after midnight on Wednesday, a day after the victim,
Timothy Caughman, 66, stumbled into a police station bleeding from stab
wounds to his chest and back, Assistant Chief William Aubry, the
commander of Manhattan South detectives, told reporters at Police
Headquarters. The police arrested him on a charge of second-degree
murder, but the chief said they wanted to upgrade the charge by
classifying it a hate crime.
“I’m
the person you’re looking for,” Chief Aubry said Mr. Jackson told
police officers when he walked into the police substation in Times
Square. He had recognized himself in an image from a security camera
broadcast on the news Tuesday evening, the chief said.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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