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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the conviction of a Brooklyn man who carried out a series of hate crime attacks in Lower Manhattan.
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.
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, "You people think you can do whatever the [expletive] you want."
A month later in the same neighborhood, Stora elbowed a 37-year-old “fair-skinned” woman in the shoulder.
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’s attention. He began following the couple, shouting anti-white and antisemitic remarks, including "[Expletive] you, white boy” and "Die, Jews, Die!”
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.
New York State Supreme Court Judge Josh Hanshaft found Stora guilty of multiple accounts of assault, stalking and attempted assault - all as hate crimes - as well as aggravated harassment.
"A judge has convicted Skiboky Stora for a disturbing series of bias-driven attacks on unsuspecting New Yorkers," said DA Bragg. "The victims were met with both violence and harassment simply because of who they are. Hate crimes strike at the core of our city'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."