The New York police had been on his heels for several days. Suspected of being the perpetrator of the knife attack on a French tourist in the Harlem district, Khalief Young, 28, has been arrested, the NYPD announced on social media. According to the New York Post, it was a police officer who spotted him in the street on Monday afternoon.
Originally from Montpellier, Gabriel Bascou, 27, was assaulted on Friday as he left a restaurant on Boulevard Adam Clayton Powell Jr., west of 135th Street. Hospitalized, he had to undergo a tracheotomy but his life is not in danger.
Two years in prison for a gun
Filmed by security cameras, Khalief Young lives near the restaurant in front of which the assault occurred and has already been in trouble with the law. He spent two years in prison between 2015 and 2017 for possession of firearms prior to his parole. Young would also not be his first assault in recent months. Last June, he attacked a shopkeeper he slashed, reveals the New York Post.
According to a report obtained by La Dépêche du Midi, Young also allegedly assaulted his girlfriend on October 20. “The accused hit the victim in the face with a closed fist and kicked him on the body with the foot causing redness, swelling and hemorrhage in the victim’s face,” read the report. complaint.
Even if the assault did not seem to be premeditated or have any motive, Khalief Young had “the intention to cause the death” of Gabriel Bascou, indicates an investigator at the regional daily. He was charged with “attempted second degree murder” and “first degree assault”.
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