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New York man charged with hate crime in Asian American attack that bystanders watched without helping

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March 31, 2021 at 3:39 a.m. EDT
A woman on her way to church in New York City was attacked by a man who made anti-Asian statements toward her on March 29, according to police. (Video: The Washington Post)

New York police arrested a suspect early Wednesday in the brutal assault of a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan that was caught on camera on Monday. The suspect is already on lifetime parole for murdering his mother, police said.

Brandon Elliot, 38, was arrested at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday in Manhattan, the NYPD said in a statement shared with The Washington Post, and charged with felony assault as a hate crime. Elliot was convicted of murder in 2002, WNBC reported.