New York: Man Arrested After Antisemitic Death Threats in Crown Heights

By COL Live

A perpetrator was arrested on Friday afternoon after threatening to kill multiple Jewish people and blow up a synagogue in Crown Heights. A perpetrator was arrested on Friday afternoon after threatening to kill multiple Jewish people and blow up a synagogue in Crown Heights. The incident began at approximately 6:30 PM near Montgomery Street and Kingston Avenue when the perpetrator shoved an elderly Jewish man and threatened to kill him. The perpetrator then proceeded up Kingston Avenue, confronting additional Jewish pedestrians with death threats while getting aggressively close to their faces and attempting to punch one victim. Throughout the incident, he spewed antiSemitic slurs, including an explicit threat “I’m going to come back and blow up your whole synagogue and shoot up everybody.”