A 35-year-old girl was stabbed to loss of life inside her Manhattan house on Sunday by a homeless man who had allegedly adopted her house, police mentioned.
Christina Yuna Lee had returned house to her house in Chinatown when a person adopted her from the road into her constructing. Surveillance video footage obtained by The New York Submit exhibits the person, recognized by police as Assamad Nash, 25, catching the door behind Lee and trailing her within the constructing shortly earlier than 4.30am.
Moments later a neighbor throughout the corridor from Lee referred to as the police after listening to her screams in the course of the heinous stabbing. When police had arrived the door to Lee’s house was locked, and Nash had barricaded himself inside.
When Emergency Service Unit officers broke down the door to the house they discovered Lee lifeless in her bathtub, and her killer hiding below a mattress.
The owner of the constructing, Brian Chin, instructed shops how the person ‘mercilessly stalked’ Lee up six flights of stairs earlier than slipping into her house.
‘We’ve obtained cameras on each flooring and within the entrance right here,’ he mentioned. ‘She obtained out of a cab proper right here and he adopted her. He grabbed the entrance door simply earlier than it closed. He adopted her all the way in which up, hanging again, staying one flooring behind her all the way in which as much as the sixth flooring.’
Nash allegedly tried to flee the house by the hearth escape earlier than barricading himself inside, prompting officers to interrupt down the door. He was arrested contained in the house and brought to Bellevue Hospital to deal with cuts and lacerations. He has since been launched and dealing with homicide and housebreaking fees.
Court docket information present Nash has a historical past of misdemeanor arrests, together with an incident in September the place he allegedly punched a person within the face at a subway station not removed from the house the place the killing came about.
Whereas police are nonetheless investigating whether or not the slaying was a hate crime, assaults in opposition to Asian People have been on the rise, particularly in New York Metropolis, the place final month, a 40-year-old Asian American girl was shoved to her loss of life whereas ready for the subway in Instances Sq..
Lee beforehand lived in New Jersey and was a Rutgers College graduate who labored as a senior artistic producer at Splice, an internet platform for digital music. She had additionally labored on photograph and video campaigns for numerous manufacturers, together with Marriott Worldwide and Equinox, in response to her web site.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams spoke out in opposition to the deadly assault on Sunday, saying in an announcement: ‘I and New Yorkers throughout town mourn for the harmless girl murdered in her house final night time in Chinatown, and stand with our Asian brothers and sisters in the present day.
‘Whereas the suspect who dedicated this heinous act is now in custody, the situations that created him stay,’ Adams mentioned. ‘The mission of this administration is obvious: We received’t let this violence go unchecked.’
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