{"id":145689,"date":"2026-02-26T04:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145689\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:20:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-man-convicted-in-string-of-hate-crime-attacks-in-lower-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145689\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn man convicted in string of hate crime attacks in Lower Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the conviction of a Brooklyn man who carried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/brooklyn-man-faces-several-hate-crime-charges-for-four-incidents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of hate crime attacks<\/a> in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Skiboky Stora, 42, was found guilty on Wednesday of stalking, harassing and attacking strangers in a series of anti-female, anti-white and antisemitic incidents between September 2023 and March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the first assault happened Sept. 20, 2023, in Chelsea. Stora elbowed a 17-year-old white student in the neck, stating, &#8220;You people think you can do whatever the [expletive] you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A month later in the same neighborhood, Stora elbowed a 37-year-old \u201cfair-skinned\u201d woman in the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>In November, a Jewish couple, a 28-year-old man and woman, were walking their dog in Union Square when they noticed Stora tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli hostages. Prosecutors say the woman took a photo of him when they caught Stora\u2019s attention. He began following the couple, shouting anti-white and antisemitic remarks, including &#8220;[Expletive] you, white boy\u201d and &#8220;Die, Jews, Die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Court documents say the fourth attack happened on March 25, 2024. A 23-year-old white woman was walking in Chelsea when she passed Stora, and he struck her in the head, causing her to fall onto the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Supreme Court Judge Josh Hanshaft found Stora guilty of multiple accounts of assault, stalking and attempted assault &#8211; all as hate crimes &#8211; as well as aggravated harassment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A judge has convicted Skiboky Stora for a disturbing series of bias-driven attacks on unsuspecting New Yorkers,&#8221; said DA Bragg. &#8220;The victims were met with both violence and harassment simply because of who they are. Hate crimes strike at the core of our city&#8217;s values and sense of safety, and I thank the hardworking prosecutors of our Hate Crimes Unit for presenting a rigorous case and securing this conviction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the conviction of a Brooklyn man who carried out a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[37380,211,2976,22958,10685,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-145689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-antisemitic","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-conviction","11":"tag-harassment","12":"tag-hate-crimes","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}