Attacks on Asians – May 2022

~Kansas

~School

~ Rezan Kohistani, Afghan 14 year old student, Muslim

Kohistani was found hanging from a tree right in front of his school. In the weeks since Kohistani’s death, social media has been flooded with reports that the teenager had been bullied. The Missouri chapter and national office of CAIR, in their Friday statement, referenced “the pattern of anti-Muslim and racist bullying to which he (Kohistani) had allegedly been subjected.”

~Queens, NYC

~Walking

~Kuldip Singh, a 63-year-old Sikh man

He was violently beaten during his morning walk. He fought his attacker but was left with fractures in his right hand, a broken nose, lacerations to the head and bruises from being beaten with the suspect’s pistol. The incident, which is currently not considered a hate crime, is under investigation by the New York Police Department. The suspect has yet to be arrested. The attack occurred in the same neighborhood where three Sikh men were also targeted last month.

~ Oregon

~13 year old Asian girl

~Walking

The cause of death of a missing 13-year-old girl who was found dead under “suspicious” circumstances has been ruled a homicide by Oregon police.

“When a 13-year-old is murdered in our community that’s obviously a tragic event that rocks our community and our police department,” Matt Henderson of the Beaverton Police Department said. “And I want our community to know that the full power of the Beaverton Police Department’s investigative staff is working this case. And we’re gonna find who did this to Milana.”

~New York City

~Subway

~Pushed onto the tracks

~Died

~23 year old, Zinat Hossain

This story is from the American branch of Bangladeshi media, otherwise, it was very difficult to find, even knowing the victim’s names. No other US media has covered her death.

~ Texas

~ school cafeteria

~ Indian 14 year old male

Texas: Shaan Pritmani, an Indian American student, was assaulted and “choked for over four minutes” by a white student at Coppell Middle School in Texas.

A video has been shot by classmates of the student being bullied and shared online.

It shows one student approaching the Indian American boy who is sitting on a bench and demanding that he stand up. When he refuses to give up his seat, the American student gets angry and starts choking him. He presses the boy’s neck from behind with his elbow before choking him and pushing him against his seat.

The victim was suspended for 3 days the perpatrator 1 day.

~Dallas

~ Inside hair salon in Korea Town

~ 3 Korean women

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-koreatown-salon-dallas-linked-string-shootings-asian/story?id=84711239

~Oakland

~Grocery store parking lot

~Chhun, Asian woman 26 year old

SLPD tell me thats when a man opened the door and hit her in the face.

Miss Chhun told me over the phone that “he saw I only had $50 and got mad and hit me two of three times…he broke my nose.” He ended up taking her purse, wallet, credit cards and the cash.

“A lot of people were in their cars but couldn’t do anything.” She says. What is scary— while SLPD says there was nothing to indicate this was race-motivated, I was told these crimes where people get attacked while sitting in their cars ”is becoming very common— we’re seeing more of it.”

~ Los Angeles

~ Ordering McD’s drive through

~ Filipina, Neressa Roque 47 mother, daughter and father

Mother and daughter were reportedly ordering at a McDonald’s drive-thru on Victory Boulevard on May 13 when Weber, who was driving a Jeep, rear-ended their car and used a “racist stereotypical accent” while saying he would kill them.

Gabriel Roque, 60, rushed to the scene after being called by his wife and daughter. Weber punched Gabriel for trying to intervene, then choked Nerissa for attempting to stop him, according to reports.

~ Oakland

~ Furniture store

~ Vietnamese owner, David Nguyen

In the footage, you can see the arsonist walk in and walk out and set the place on fire. Man shows accelerant on the furniture. It took 10 minutes to reach 911. He estimates the damage is $220k and will have to close for 2 months.

~ Brooklyn

~ Convenience store

~ 21 year old Asian woman cashier

Police released video footage from a security camera showing the first robbery, which happened just after 11 p.m. on May 16 at a store on Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The video shows three men milling about the convenience store and then one jumps over the counter while another man sprays a 21-year-old woman working behind the counter. She then tried to escape the robbery but the thieves grab her and spray her again, the video shows.

~Southern California

~ Taiwanese Church

~Taiwanese American, Dr John Cheng was killed

A Las Vegas man suspected in Sunday’s shooting that left one person dead and five others injured at a meeting of Asian churchgoers in Southern California was motivated by political tensions between China and Taiwan, authorities said Monday.

“Dr. Cheng is a hero,” he said. “It is known that Dr. Cheng charged the individual, the suspect, attempted to disarm him, which allowed other parishioners to then intercede, taking the suspect into custody.”

~ New Jersey

~ Delivering chinese food

~ Jun Ting Pan, 41, Chinese American man

Police say a suspect in a stolen Honda CRV struck an occupied police vehicle that was pulled over on the side of the road before colliding with another vehicle and hitting several pedestrian. 31-year-old Harold Rasbin of Orlando, Florida ran victim over.

~ Chicago

~ Street

~Asian news reporter, Joanie Lum

Man points his gun at woman. FOX 32 Chicago tweeted that its crew was threatened in “horrifying” fashion while a reporter, identified as Joanie Lum, was in the middle of delivering a news report about the city’s gun violence.

~ San Francisco

~ Walking to the car

~ Asian woman, 48 year old

3 people waited for Asian woman then attacked her and robbed her. Witness says this happens all the time.

~ Surrey

~ Maanav Kinkar, 18-year-old, South Asian

Homicide detectives have so far determined that on the evening of May 26, Kinkar arrived at Surrey Central via Skytrain and may have boarded a bus. IHIT is looking to speak to anyone who may have seen Kinkar that evening.

~ walking in Chinatown in Washington DC

~ Catherine Xu, Gen Y, Chinese American

Catherine Xu said she was waiting to cross the street  when someone struck her. She had looked down at her phone for a moment. “All of a sudden, I just feel like an impact to my face. Someone had run up and punched me out of nowhere,” she said.

Xu said a man jumped in to help her and chased the attacker away so she could get to safety.

She said she went to urgent care afterward. She didn’t have any visible bruises, but her jaw hurt so much she couldn’t eat solid food for a day, she said.

~ San Francisco

~ In their home

~ Asian couple in 70s and 80s

~ Brooklyn, NYC on train

~ 39-year-old Asian man

NYPD says this man slashed a 39-year-old Asian man in his chest & neck on F train approaching York St station on Tues 3p. Fled on foot.

UPDATE- 24-year-old Nicholas Martin has been arrested and charged with Assault as a Hate Crime.

~ Queens

~ On subway

~ 1 victim, 1 good Samaritan

The first attack happened around 3 p.m. Tuesday. A 39-year-old man was slashed in the chest and the back of the neck after a dispute with a person who made an anti-Asian comment on a train approaching the York Street station in Brooklyn, police said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating.

Around 5:30 p.m., a 54-year-old man tried to intervene when he saw someone punching another person on a platform at the Court Square-23rd Street station in Queens, police said. They said the person who’d thrown the punches then head-butted the would-be peacemaker, grabbed his hockey stick and bashed him in the back of the head.

Both victims were treated at hospitals for their injuries.

~ Brooklyn

~ subway

~ Asian man, 65 years old

The victim was riding a southbound A train on the F line around 5:20 p.m. when the woman made anti-Asian remarks to him, police said. According to the findings of the investigation conducted by the NYPD, she allegedly stood in front of the victim’s child as the family prepared to leave. As the girl’s father sought to defend his daughter, the suspect allegedly bit him on the back. The incident was reported to the NYPD authorities

The victim was transported by EMS to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was in stable condition.