Victim was allegedly stabbed with barber’s scissors inside his Yonkers barbershop
October 4, 2024
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced today a Yonkers man was arraigned on an indictment by which he is charged with attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges for an Aug. 29 attack on a Jewish barber at his business on Yonkers Avenue.
DA Rocah said: “My office will continue to work with law enforcement partners to seek accountability and justice in cases of hate-based violence and ensure our communities that we will not tolerate acts of hate in any form.”
The defendant, Ahmed Al Jabali, 34 of Yonkers, who has been remanded since his arrest, was arraigned today before New York Supreme Court Justice Larry Schwartz in Westchester County on an indictment charging him with:
- two counts of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime
- Attempted Murder in the Second Degree
- two counts of Attempted Assault in the First Degree as a Hate Crime
- Attempted Assault in the First Degree
- two counts of Assault in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime
- Assault in the Second Degree
- Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree
The next court date is Oct. 23.
The defendant was initially charged by a felony complaint, which alleged that the defendant attacked the victim in the face, body, arms and hands with a pair of barber’s scissors while saying “I want to kill you, you [expletive] Jew.”
The victim called police and was treated at a local hospital for wounds sustained from the attack.
Yonkers Police Department arrested the defendant shortly after the incident.
The case is being prosecuted by Major Case Bureau Chief Nadine Nagler of the Trials and Investigations Division in conjunction with the Hate Crimes Unit.
The charges against the defendant are merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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