Attacks on Asians – March 2022

~ NYC
~ home
~ 39 year old Asian man
~ punched in the chest

Marlon Carr, 47, was arrested following an alleged incident with his 39-year-old Asian neighbor, law enforcement sources told the New York Post. Carr’s neighbor, whose name was not revealed, lived on the fifth floor of their building. He was about to step inside the elevator when he reportedly heard a loud sound and saw Carr, who yelled, “Chinaman, Wuhan b*tch. I’m glad it’s killing you.”

~ Alexandria
~ at home
~ 30 year old Korean American woman
~ Hannah Choi
~ murdered

Investigators believe they have found the body of a Virginia woman, who was allegedly killed by her ex-boyfriend, in a wooded area of Piscataway Park in Maryland. Arrest warrants have been issued for Choi’s ex-boyfriend, 27-year-old Joel Mosso Merino for second-degree murder and felony disposal of a body. He has yet to be apprehended.

~ Oakland
~ Unloading Groceries from Car
~ 70 year old Chinese woman
~ Thrown to the ground and subsequently robbed

This happened in the parking lot of a senior living facility a few blocks from Oakland’s Fairyland. He approached her calmly, grabbed her purse, whipped her around and wrestled with her on the ground scraping her hands on the pavement. She thinks she was targeted because she’s Asian. She is already afraid to go out after learning about crimes in places like Chinatown.

~ Philly
~ at home
~ 37 year old Asian woman
~ 15 year old Asian boy
~ 10 year old Asian boy
~ all stabbed multiple times

Police have arrested the suspect connected to a brutal attack that left a 37-year-old Asian mother and her two sons injured with multiple stab wounds on Sunday afternoon, March 6. The mother of two suffered multiple stab wounds and was brought to a local hospital, where she is currently listed in critical condition.

~ NYC

~ Subway

~ Asian man

Police are searching for the suspect after a man was hit in the head with a hammer inside a Greenwich Village subway station Tuesday. he expected to survive. Last week, another woman was hit in the head with a hammer.

~ NYC
~ on subway
~ 29 year old Asian man
~ hit on head with hammer

A 29-year-old subway rider was hit in the head with a hammer after he bumped into another person on the platform in a Chelsea subway station. The victim made what authorities described as incidental contact with the suspect on the number 2 subway line platform of the 14th street station just before 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. Words were exchanged, and the suspect struck the victim on the head with a hammer. The victim was conscious and alert after the attack and taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

~ LA
~ Asian man
~ William Yu
~ walking
~ stabbed multiple times

William Yu was walking in Chinatown Wednesday afternoon when he was randomly attacked by a homeless man armed with a knife. He sustained several stab wounds to the neck and shoulder area. Authorities detained the suspect shortly after. Now, the man and his family are seeking justice.

William’s brother reflects on the incident by stating “It’s scary situation. People usually don’t want to get involved when something is going on like that but I just wish they did.”

~ NYC
~ in the subway
~ late 50’s Filipina woman
~ shoved down the stairs
~ mid-60’s Filipina woman
~ shoved to the ground

On Thursday, the Filipina who is in her late 50s, walks with a cane, and suffers from poor eyesight, was shoved down the stairs by an unidentified man at the 179th Street Station of the subway’s F Train in the neighborhood of Jamaica in Queens.

On the same day, another Filipina in her mid-60s was pushed by an unidentified man at the Long Island Rail Road train platform, also in Jamaica, causing her to land on her face and break her eyeglasses in the process.

~ NYC
~ returning home
~ 67 year old Asian woman
~ punched 125 times and then stomped on

A 42-year-old Yonkers man has been arrested on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges in the vicious caught-on-camera beating of a 67-year-old Asian woman who was attacked as she returned home last week, police said Monday.

~ NYC
~ 55 year old Asian man
~ working in a store
~ beaten

The two suspects entered Ru Yi Grocery at 139 Division Street just before 5 p.m. on March 14 when one man approached the 59-year-old victim and told him he had a gun and demanded money, police said. After the victim refused to comply, the other suspect locked the front door and both of the men assaulted the victim, authorities said.

~ L.A.
~ on the sidewalk
~ Japanese American woman 30 years old
~ Karen Fukuhara
~ hit on the back of the head

“I was walking to a cafe for some coffee and a man struck me in the back of my head. It came out of nowhere. We made no eye contact before, I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. It came to my surprise and my hat flew off. By the time I looked back, he was a few feet away from me (he must have kept walking after hitting me).”

~ SF
~ Asian man
~ pistol whipped and robbed

𝗣𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗹-𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 & 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿: Marcus was out for a walk near the Chase Center last Friday when he was robbed of his watch by 3 men.
He said he was pistol-whipped and one person yelled out a homophonic slur. Marcus required 5-stitches & was transported to the hospital.

~ Boston
~ 64 year old Asian man
~ Wei Wu
~ beaten and head slammed in car door

“The guy stole his car and then he went to catch it and the guy slammed the door on his face on this side,” Gloria Zhu, Wu’s ex-wife explained. The blatant and vicious nature of the crime has shocked the busy Chinatown community.

~ Oakland
~ 66 year old Asian man
~ Chi Ho Leung
~ on sidewalk
~ ran over

An East Bay man is demanding answers after surveillance video captured someone in a van hitting his father and killing him. KTVU’s Amber Lee says the video of the Oakland crash proves the driver was deliberate. Oakland police were flagged down by the people in the van before the crash, but kept on moving. Police have not commented on this story.

~ Grand Island, NY

~ Bar

~Asian American woman

The attacker also yelled racial slurs at the victim before striking her in the face with a pool cue, the district attorney said.

“They did not know each other. Now how they came about the altercation, that’s something I’d rather not comment on right now. What I could tell you is, prior to the defendant striking the victim, he did use some racial slurs and then struck the victim,” he said.

~ NYC
~ sidewalk
~ 61 year old Asian woman
~ Hee Chen
~ stabbed

Cops say Chen was being robbed when the two men left the pizza shop and came to her aid.

“They stabbed us, like they stabbed the woman. Poor, defenseless Asian woman that was just going home. Because they’re cowards. Now, people like us who are not cowards, we fight back,” Suljovic said.

~ NYC
~ ordering food from kiosk
~ 53 year old Filipino
~ Melvin Dizon
~ punched, kicked, and thrown against wall

Rasheed Osundairo, 30, allegedly assaulted and robbed 53-year-old Melvin Dizon at a McDonald’s self-service kiosk in Manhattan on Monday.

~ NYC
~ 73 year old Filipino
~ walking to church
~ shoved to ground and robbed

73YO Filipino man on way to church when man tried to grab wallet, pushed him to ground Sun 8th Ave & 40th. Not being investigated as hate crime but victim thinks heard racial slur. Has black eye, swollen shut, bruises all over body. Cops arrested 44YO Dominick Staton (homeless).

~ NYC
~ walking down the sidewalk
~ 70 year old Asian woman
~ Fang Mei Lin
~ stabbed in the back

A 70-year-old woman was stabbed in the back in a random attack across the street from her home in Brooklyn, police said Wednesday. Fang Mei Lin was leaving her home on 53rd St. in Sunset Park to pick up her medicine when she was ambushed from behind near Eighth Ave. about 1:05 p.m. March 30, cops said.