The maniac who allegedly shouted, “Free Palestine!” before viciously stabbing a Jewish man in the stomach Saturday has been ordered held on $100,000 cash bail on multiple hate-crime charges.
Vincent Sumpter, 22, of Brooklyn was reportedly “looking for trouble” when he approached Yechiel Dabrowskin around 2 a.m. near the Chabad Headquarters in Crown Heights, yelling antisemitic slurs and asking, “Do you want to die?” before lashing out with his blade.
“It’s very, very painful,” Dabrowskin told Israel’s Kan 11 News of his wounds after the attack. “I had internal bleeding, but thank God I had a miracle.”
Sumpter, who law-enforcement sources said has no prior criminal record in New York City, faces a slew of second- and third-degree assault and menacing charges in the attack, with four of the counts to be prosecuted as hate crimes.
So far this year, 229 antisemitic hate crimes have been reported to the NYPD through last Sunday, according to NYPD data.
By that time last year, 126 such incidents were reported.
It was not known if Sumpter had obtained a lawyer.
