Bed-Stuy Man Indicted in Anti-LGBTQ Stabbing
Assailant allegedly said, “I don’t like gay people” before attack
BY ROSE ADAMS
A Bedford-Stuyvesant
man faces up to 25
years in prison for allegedly
stabbing the
partner of an individual the Brooklyn
District Attorney’s Offi ce alternately
described as transgender
and gender non-conforming in a
fi t of anti-LGBTQ rage on June 22,
according to Brooklyn’s top prosecutor.
“There is no place for such ignorance
and intolerance in Brooklyn,
where we celebrate our diversity,”
said District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
“We will now seek to hold this
defendant accountable for this very
serious attack.”
A grand jury slapped the defendant,
32-year-old Emmanuel Dash,
with a 25-count indictment that
included charges of second-degree
attempted murder and fi rst-degree
A man was indicted on attempted murder and hate crime charges for stabbing the partner of a transgender
person in Bed-Stuy on June 22.
assault as a hate crime on August
28, and Brooklyn Supreme Court
Justice Danny Chun ordered him
held on $40,000 bail, according to
Gonzalez.
The defendant allegedly stalked
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the couple to their Malcolm X Avenue
apartment building at 6
a.m., where he banged on doors in
search of the pair, while shouting,
“I’m glad I know where you live, because
I don’t like gay people.” The
CRIME
victim’s partner then opened the
door, but quickly slammed it shut
when Dash pulled out a knife, according
to prosecutors.
The couple later went searching
for the defendant, but after deciding
to head back home, the man
found them, lunging at the victim
and his partner as they returned
to their building, stabbing the man
in the back of the neck, according
to Gonzalez.
The defendant fl ed, and emergency
responders transported the
victim to Kings County Hospital,
where doctors rushed to treat a
grievous, six-inch stab wound,
which severed one of his vertebral
arteries — the main vessel that
transports blood to the brain.
The victim’s condition was stabilized
and he was not paralyzed,
the DA’s offi ce reported.
The defendant, arrested July 24,
is due back in court October 23.
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