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Vandals ‘focused’ memorial for NYC girl murdered inside condo simply days earlier
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A memorial for the Manhattan girl who was stabbed to demise in her Chinatown condo by a repeat-offender suspect was destroyed by vandals.
“We’re indignant and we’re saddened,” landlord Brian Chin informed WABC of the vandalized memorial.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was stabbed to demise Sunday morning in her Chinatown condo on the Decrease East Aspect. The suspect, 25-year-old Assamad Nash, was charged with homicide and has a rap sheet displaying no less than a dozen arrests over the past decade.
This mugshot reveals Assamad Nash, 25, who was taken into custody over the deadly stabbing of Christina Yuna Lee inside her sixth-floor walk-up Chinatown condo on Manhattan’s Decrease East Aspect.
(Fox Information)
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Chin mentioned he discovered remnants of the memorial in entrance of the condo constructing and described the vandalism as a “focused” assault on her memorial.
“The road [was] stuffed with smashed glass, candles knocked over, the indicators had been ripped off, flowers had been scattered over the sidewalk,” Chin mentioned.
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He and others instantly labored to revive the memorial
“We retaped the indicators to the timber, we wrote new messages, we changed candles, we positioned extra flowers,” Chin informed WABC.
“The group gained’t let her spirit be torn down, her reminiscence city down so simply,” he added.
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Chin mentioned he additionally considers the vandalism as a hate crime.
“The Asian American group has grown accustomed to this hatred,” Chin mentioned.
Lee’s homicide has set off extra outrage that New York leaders are failing its residents.
“The system is failing everybody,” Jacky Wong, a member of the neighborhood group Involved Residents of East Broadway, informed “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday.
“It’s robust, the entire situation … the entire incident is terrifying our group … I feel on the whole, New Yorkers [are] feeling unsafe and significantly the Asian-American group, as a result of the hate crimes towards [the] Asian-American group went up.”
