Yeshiva News – The Muslim man suspected of beating an elderly Hasidic Jewish man in Boro Park last Sunday has now been charged with a hate crime. Sources confirmed to YWN that the Brooklyn District Attorney upgraded the charges on Friday afternoon, after inexplicably resisting calls and recommendations all week to do so.
Farrukh Afzal, 37, of Staten Island, has 8 prior arrests. As reported on YWN, Afzal reportedly shouted “Allah, Allah”, said he wanted to “kill all Jews” and made references to ‘Israel’ while viciously beating 62-year-old R’ Lipa Schwartz on Sunday.
