Folks maintain indicators throughout a rally in response to the killing of Christina Yuna Lee within the Chinatown part of New York, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022.
By Karen Matthews | Related Press
NEW YORK — A lady was stabbed to dying inside her decrease Manhattan residence by a person who adopted her from the road into her constructing, authorities stated.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was discovered fatally wounded in her bathtub at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, police stated. The suspected killer was taken into custody after he at first tried to flee down a hearth escape after which barricaded himself contained in the residence, a police spokesperson stated.
Police introduced Monday that Assamad Nash, 25, was arrested on costs of homicide and housebreaking. It wasn’t clear if he had an legal professional who may touch upon the fees.
Officers together with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams denounced Lee’s killing as the newest in a string of unprovoked assaults on individuals of Asian descent.
“I be a part of New Yorkers standing collectively in help of our AAPI associates & neighbors,” Hochul stated on Twitter.
Police haven't categorised Lee’s dying as a hate crime, however Adams stated the police are investigating and added, “we stand with our Asian neighborhood immediately.”
A number of dozen neighborhood residents and their supporters chanted “Sufficient is sufficient!” at a rally on Monday close to the sufferer’s constructing. “Our elected officers must act,” stated Susan Lee, who isn't associated to Christina Lee. “I’m begging them to behave in order that not one other life is misplaced.”
Christina Lee labored as a senior artistic producer at Splice, a web-based platform for digital music. She was a graduate of Rutgers College and had beforehand labored for firms together with Marriott and the shoe retailer Toms, in line with her LinkedIn web page.
“Over the weekend, our beloved Christina Lee was senselessly murdered in her residence,” Splice officers stated in a press release posted on Twitter. “Our hearts are damaged. All the time devoted to creating stunning and inclusive art work, Christina is irreplaceable. As we begin to course of this tragedy, we ask that you simply bear in mind Christina Lee because the magical individual she was, all the time full of pleasure. We want peace upon her household of their grief.”
Surveillance video obtained by the New York Submit reveals a person following Lee into her constructing on Chrystie Avenue in Chinatown.
The constructing’s landlord instructed the Submit that cameras posted on each flooring confirmed the person adopted Lee all the best way up the steps to her sixth flooring residence. A neighbor heard screaming and known as 911, police stated.
The killing occurred weeks after one other girl of Asian descent, Michelle Alyssa Go, was killed by a person who pushed her in entrance of an oncoming subway practice on the Occasions Sq. station.
Related Press video journalist David R. Martin contributed to this report.