Assamad Nash, 25, a vagrant with a prolonged rap sheet, was charged Monday with homicide and housebreaking after fatally stabbing promoting inventive, Christina Yuna Lee, who he adopted into her residence after she got here house from an evening out.
Nash has three further open felony instances, one for assaulting a person in a subway station.
Lee was coming house Sunday morning about 4:30 from an evening out at a membership when Nash noticed her getting out of an Uber, her landlord Brian Chin mentioned.
Safety video captured Nash creeping into the constructing behind Lee, who did not discover her stalker.
Nash hung again because the digital producer climbed the six flights to her residence, Chin mentioned, climbing up one flooring under as she went.
He rushed her as she unlocked her residence door and entered her residence, Chin mentioned.
Neighbors have been awaken Sunday morning to Lee's blood-curdling screams of 'Please, assist me. Name 911.'
Star Fitz, 21, who lives down the corridor mentioned she instantly known as police who arrived immediately.
By then Nash had barricaded himself within the residence with the fatally wounded Lee, who lay bleeding to loss of life within the bathtub as police have been compelled to noticed their method into the unit.
They discovered Nash hiding below the mattress, the New York Publish reported.
Nash, a homeless profession felony, had been out on bail following a number of excellent offences, together with an assault case in September and felony mischief arrest in early January. He was due in court docket on March 3. Based on ABC7, he has been arrested not less than seven occasions since 2015, most not too long ago on January 6, 2022.
Based on court docket information accessed by DailyMail.com, Nash has been arrested 4 occasions within the final 12 months alone. His rap sheet included misdemeanor costs of assault, intentional harm to property, harassment, resisting arrest, each tried and profitable escape from law enforcement officials and promoting a fare card.
Three of those instances stay open, and he has appeared in court docket on quite a few events. He was set to look once more earlier than a choose on March 9 on the assault, harassment and intentional harm to property costs.
'This all might have been averted,' Lee's landlord, Brian Chin, advised reporters Sunday night time. 'This man ought to by no means have been out of the road. And it is DA Alvin Bragg enjoying politics with folks's lives and the Asian neighborhood has been harm. To have a DA who has received these horrific crimes proper on his doorstep. And he does not even trouble to indicate up. It is disgraceful.'
It's unclear if Nash knew Lee, however in accordance with New York Every day Information, investigators recovered surveillance video that reveals the suspect following Lee into her constructing after she was dropped off by a cab.
Chinatown residents say that the neighborhood is on edge after the brutal random killing. They held a rally Monday afternoon calling on politicians to do one thing concerning the homelessness and psychological well being disaster plaguing the town.
'That is one more Asian girl killed in her residence,' Chinatown activist Jackie Wong mentioned. 'She did nothing incorrect. The one mistake she made was shifting to New York to make the town her house.'
Lee's residence at 111 Chrystie Avenue is a block over from the Bowery, which is understood for it is cluster of meals pantries and homeless shelters.
To focus on the difficulty in the neighborhood, neighborhood organizers handing out maps displaying the places of 5 homeless shelters within the neighborhood with three extra deliberate to be added to the world.
'Now rapidly on prime of these 5 shelters they're dumping three extra,' Chinatown activist Jackie Wong mentioned on the rally. 'We're like sufficient is admittedly sufficient. That is why we we're having issues.'
Throughout the road from her constructing Sara Roosevelt Park, has been a sizzling mattress of avenue crime, homelessness and open-air drug use.
Okay Webster, the president of the Sara Roosevelt Park Coalition, mentioned that the homeless have been across the neighborhood for many years, however there was an inflow of mentally sick homeless which have created a brand new hazard within the neighborhood.
"We have homeless people who help,' she said. 'We have homeless people who stopped a rape. We have homeless people who have who found the guy who assaulted a woman, who helped the police find the culprit.
So we've had homeless folks and that's one class after which we've people who find themselves mentally sick. You'll be able to't have mentally sick folks operating across the streets.