NY man who killed Jewish writer in car crash charged with vandalizing kosher shop
Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.A New York City district attorney on Friday arraigned a suspect on hate crimes charges for antisemitic vandalism, weeks after the man was indicted on manslaughter charges for the death of a Jewish journalist.Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said that Dawood Faisal, 22, had been arraigned on hate crimes charges for destroying property in May at a kosher bagel shop that had Israeli flags outside.On May 15, Faisal upended nine plant stands outside the shop, Bagels & Co., spilling dirt and plants on the sidewalk in front of the business. He then threw fistfuls of the dirt at the shop, Katz said.A week later, Faisal knocked over 11 plant stands at the shop, picked up the plant pots, and emptied the pots onto the sidewalk. Some pots were too large to knock over, so he ripped the plants out of them,…
Dawood Faisal, 22, was arraigned on hate crime charges in Queens, New York, for vandalizing a kosher bagel shop displaying Israeli flags in May. According to District Attorney Melinda Katz, Faisal twice upended plant stands, spilled dirt, and threw dirt at Bagels & Co. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of criminal mischief as a hate crime.
“Faisal upended nine plant stands outside the shop, Bagels & Co., spilling dirt and plants on the sidewalk in front of the business. He then threw fistfuls of the dirt at the shop,” Katz said.
This arraignment follows his indictment in June on manslaughter and other charges related to a vehicular incident that killed 71-year-old Jewish journalist Cara Trager and injured her husband. Faisal allegedly drove over 75 mph in a 35 mph zone, ran two red lights, and struck two vehicles, one of which hit Trager and her husband. There is no apparent connection between the car crash and the vandalism.
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