“The attacks are only intensifying in New York, and the response requires more than a statement,” the Israeli consul general in New York stated.
Dan Sohail, 36, is suspected of driving a car five times into the doors to a synagogue at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday evening, Joseph Kenny, chief of detectives at the New York City Police Department, said at a press conference.
The suspect, of Carteret, N.J., “had recently connected with the Lubavitch community,” and removed blockades from the same site the prior day, Kenney said.
“This incident is being investigated as a hate crime, and the NYPD’s hate crime task force took the lead on this case,” Kenny said. “We are collaborating with our state and federal partners.”
