NYC landlord rips Manhattan DA Bragg after homeless profession felony arrested in Chinatown condominium stabbing

A New York Metropolis landlord blasted Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg after a homeless man with a number of open felony offenses allegedly killed a girl inside her condominium on Sunday.

Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was stabbed to demise early Sunday morning inside her condominium within the 100 block of Chrystie Avenue within the Chinatown neighborhood on the Decrease East Facet, police mentioned. The blood-soaked suspect, recognized as 25-year-old Assamad Nash, was taken into custody and evaluated at a neighborhood hospital.

NYPD detectives introduced Monday that Nash had been formally charged with homicide and housebreaking. He was anticipated to be arraigned in Manhattan on Monday afternoon.

“That is in regards to the group and our elected officers have to do one thing a lot completely different as a result of this was all avoidable,” Brian Chin, Lee’s landlord, informed reporters outdoors the constructing, in response to Fox 5 N.Y. 

Chin particularly criticized Bragg’s insurance policies, arguing Lee’s homicide might have been prevented. 

“From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re petrified of this, his insurance policies and what not. Armed theft of a retailer is now a petty larceny? What madness is that this?” he mentioned. “This man, his rap sheet is a mile lengthy, he ought to have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? That is outrageous.”

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Surveillance video confirmed Lee dropped off at her constructing in a cab after an evening out, Chin mentioned.

“She opened the door, and he simply slipped in proper behind her. She by no means even knew he was there,” he mentioned, in response to WNBC. “She walked up six flights of stairs and this man mercilessly stalked her.”

Bragg has confronted criticism over a controversial Jan. 3 memo instructing assistant district attorneys to solely search pretrial detention in “very severe circumstances.” The memo additionally included an inventory of low-level crimes his workplace would not prosecute, together with resisting arrest, skipping subway fare, prostitution, marijuana offenses, and minor visitors infractions or working with no license. 

Bragg additionally directed assistant district attorneys to cut back armed theft circumstances to petit larcenies, barring sure circumstances. Met with backlash, he was compelled to later make clear that his workplace would nonetheless prosecute gunpoint robberies and unlawful firearm possession as felonies. 

Native stories point out Nash had a minimum of eight prior arrests, principally for low-level subway crimes. Three of these circumstances remained pending in Manhattan courtroom, the N.Y. Day by day Information reported.

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His most up-to-date arrest was on Jan. 6 on fees of felony mischief and escaping police custody. In that incident, officers arrested Nash for allegedly disabling a number of metro card machines by jamming them with an object, Fox Information Digital has realized. He later allegedly pushed open the doorways of a police van and tried to flee arrest. He was due again in courtroom on March 3.  

Nash reportedly was arrested over a Sept. 28, 2021, assault after allegedly punching a person at a subway turnstile at Grand Central Station. In Could of that 12 months, he was arrested for allegedly attacking a girl, however the particulars of that incident remained sealed.

The New York Day by day Information reported that Lee’s constructing is positioned throughout the road from Sara D. Roosevelt Park, which has attracted crime, drug customers and homeless for many years. In October, a meals supply driver was stabbed to demise on the road simply outdoors the park, in response to the newspaper.

“My household, we have now owned this constructing for the reason that Nineteen Seventies, my grandparents are Chinese language immigrants,” Chin mentioned, in response to Fox 5 N.Y. “They got here from China, they constructed themselves. We constructed up this group. And to see it get torn down so quick by one district legal professional, it’s simply heart-wrenching. And a shame to all of us locally.”

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand – all Democrats – condemned Lee’s violent stabbing as one other assault confronted by the Asian American group.

Fox Information’ Paul Finest contributed to this report.