Brooklyn man arrested for alleged hate crime stabbing in Crown Heights, NYPD says

A Brooklyn man is facing assault and hate crime charges for allegedly stabbing a Jewish man after making antisemitic statements last week, according to the NYPD.

Armani Charles, 23, was taken into custody Monday evening after a weeklong search, according to the NYPD. Police said they connected him to the Dec. 16 attack on 35-year-old Elias Rosner – a stranger he reportedly confronted near the corner of Kingston Avenue and Lincoln Place in Crown Heights.

Charles allegedly made hateful statements about Jews and the Holocaust before pulling out a knife and stabbing Rosner in the chest, officials said. Rosner was treated at a local hospital and released, and the NYPD sent dozens of additional officers to the neighborhood to look for the suspect…

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