A person who adopted a girl and stabbed her 40 instances additionally imitated her voice when police turned up, prosecutors have stated.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was murdered when Assamad Nash, 25, allegedly adopted her into her condo constructing simply earlier than 4.30am on Sunday.
He crept behind her up six flights of stairs, staying one flooring under, earlier than speeding to her door and into her flat.
Neighbours heard Christina screaming for assist and referred to as police who might hear a commotion within the background.
Prosecutor Dafna Yoran stated she then went quiet earlier than one other voice emerged – that of Nash imitating the voice of a girl and saying police didn't have to attend.
He then tried to flee via a hearth escape however noticed a police officer on the roof and returned into the flat.
The door was smashed open over an hour after the incident started and Christina’s physique was present in her toilet, bare from the waist up and coated in stab wounds.
Nash was dragged out from below her mattress the place he was hiding and was arrested earlier than going to hospital for therapies to cuts he suffered within the wrestle.
Christina had lived in New Jersey beforehand, the place she graduated from Rutgers College and labored for Splice, an internet platform for digital music.
On the time of her demise, Nash was out on supervised launch on three open circumstances and in addition has an intensive document in New Jersey, prosecutors stated.
If convicted, he faces a sentence as excessive as life with out parole.
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.
Final month the place a 40-year-old Asian American lady was shoved to her demise whereas ready for the subway in Occasions Sq..
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