James Harris Jackson, a 28-year-old white male, traveled to New York City to commit a hate crime. As a result, Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old Black man, is dead.
Bill Aubrey, a deputy chief at the New York Police Department, said in a press conference Wednesday that Jackson left his home in Baltimore, Md., on March 17and took the bus to New York City to harm Black people “because it is the media capital of the world and he wanted to make a statement.”
Police reported that on Monday night Jackson, who was walking the streets of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in a long overcoat, which hid a 26-inch sword with an 18-inch blade, encountered Caughman while he was collecting bottles from trash cans on a sidewalk. Jackson attacked Caughman, stabbing him multiple times in his chest and back.
