'91 race riot killer stabbed with ice pick
The man convicted in the death of a Hasidic Jew during the 1991 Crown Heights riots was stabbed in the head with an ice pick early yesterday in what may have been a road rage attack, police said.
Lemrick Nelson, 35, was found near 168th Street and Riverside Drive at 1 a.m. with a bloody ice pick nearby, police said. He was hospitalized and in stable condition.
Nelson attacked Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, after a Hasidic Jewish man accidentally ran over and killed a 7-year-old black boy. Rosenbaum had nothing to do with the accident.
Nelson, who was 16 then, was eventually convicted of federal civil rights charges. After his 2004 prison release, he was reportedly living in Hillside, N.J.
In May, he told the New York Post: “Kids make mistakes. I'm a man now. I've never been in or out of trouble.”
(With AP)
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