A Chinese man in New York ended up in a coma after getting beaten up on a street last Friday.
The incident occurred while the victim, identified only as Zheng, was out for an evening walk just a few blocks away from his home in Flushing, Queens.
After having a drink, Zheng went out and came across a “very tall” person, who made small talk with him. The next thing he knew, he was already on a hospital bed.
“I vaguely remember running into a person on the street the night of the incident,” Zheng told World Journal, a Chinese-language news outlet. “Then I fainted. When I woke up, I was already lying on a hospital bed. Later I heard that I had been taken by an ambulance.”
A 56-year-old pizzeria owner in Norristown, Pennsylvania wasviolently attackedby a group of men who stole beers from her shop on Friday.
Ying Ngov, the owner of Mama Venezia’s Pizzeria, reportedly ran after the men after they took the items from her business without paying, reports 6ABC.
Security footage initially showed the attackers looking through the windows of Ngov’s pizza shop before they all put on masks and entered the store. The clip then shows the men running out and then Ngov going after them.
Ngov, who is originally from China, narrated, “I say, ‘You don’t pay for beer yet’ and they walked out. They don’t want to pay. They keep running. So I run too.”
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Realizing that she was outnumbered, Ngov took her neighbor’s snow shovel as she approached the men.
“I protect myself. I know, maybe, they were going to hit me,”Ngov was quoted as saying.
When one of the men shoved her to the ground, Ngov got right back up.
The men continued to brutally attack the old woman, with one man’s punch to the face sending her back to the ground. Ngov reportedly blacked out as the suspects continued to beat on her while she was down.
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“I don’t know nothing from when they beat me up until I get up,”said Ngov.
Her regular customers have known Ngov to be a“kind and generous woman.”Neighbor Wendy Quarels shared that Ngov’s store would always accommodate people who didn’t have enough money.
Even with her face now all bruised and swollen, Ngov just wants to get paid for the beers that the men took.
“Don’t do bad like that because people work hard every day,”Ngov said when asked what she would want to say to her attackers.
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However, her son-in-law Bryan Skipper wants the men arrested for their crimes, noting that he hopes the attack wasn’t racially motivated.
“You hear things on the news where some people who are of Asian descent they keep to themselves, they try not to cause trouble. I hate to think that was the reason,”the former Marine said.
The case is currently under investigation by the Norristown police and the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
The 36-year-old victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. He was walking home at the time of the attack.
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CHINATOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was charged with stabbing an Asian man in the back because he "didn't like the way he looked at him."
Salman Muflihi pulled an eight-inch knife and stabbed his 36-year-old victim, walking on Worth Street next to the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouseat around 6:20 p.m. Thursday night.
Muflihi ran to a security guard outside the nearby Manhattan district attorney's office building on Hogan Place, telling the guard, "I just stabbed someone. Where are the police at?"
He was charged with attempted criminally negligent homicide, assault, forgery, and criminal possession of a weapon.
He told detectives he stabbed the victim "because he didn't like the way he looked at him."
CeFaan Kim says police are investigating after a man was stabbed in the back in Chinatown on Thursday night.
The 36-year-old victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.
He was walking home at the time of the attack.
Muflihi has three prior three prior arrests for assaults. He appeared emotionally disturbed.
The Asian Hate Crimes Task Force was brought into the investigation but the stabbing is not currently being investigated as a bias crime.
Community members said they were outraged and angry after the latest attack on an Asian New Yorker.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials spoke out earlier this week about the city's renewed effort to confront hate crimes against Asians.
"Every community suffered, but there's been a particular pain, a particular horrible challenge, faced by the Asian American community," de Blasio said. "Because on top of all the suffering from the coronavirus itself, on top of losing loved ones losing businesses, people have had to confront horrible discrimination and hatred."
The Asian Hate Crime Task Force is focusing on the entire city, but they will pay particular attention to the subways after a rash of incident in the transit system. Community leaders say the incident is just another reason why the task force should be funded and staffed with full-time officers.
"You need to be able to give them the resources that they need to help focus on solving the problem," community advocate Jenny Low said. "I believe they have very good officers who are well-trained to do that. But a volunteer gig is still a volunteer gig."
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