A New York prosecutor said Thursday that his team was prosecuting its highest number of anti-Asian hate crimes since a unit was established more than a decade ago.
The man accused of stomping and killing Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma in New York City last year will face hate crime murder charges, prosecutors said Thursday.
Jarrod Powell, 50, who is homeless, has been incarcerated on Rikers Island since the brutal April 23 assault of Yao Pan Ma. The 61-year-old succumbed to his injuries on Dec. 31 after eight months in a medically induced coma with brain damage and facial fractures.
Jarrod Powell, 50, has been charged with murder in the second degree as a hate crime for the killing of Yao Pan Ma, a 61-year-old Chinese immigrant who was beaten into a coma in Manhattan and later died.