Alleged anti-Semite may have staked out Brighton Jewish day school the day before he allegedly stabbed a rabbi repeatedly

Khaled Awad, 24, faces arraignment successful Suffolk Superior Court time connected a assortment of charges including a ceremonial hate-crime complaint for a July 1 onslaught successful which a rabbi was stabbed repeatedly extracurricular his school connected Chestnut Hill Avenue successful Brighton, the Suffolk County District Attorney's bureau reports.

According to the DA's office:

A witnesser captured footage connected a compartment telephone of Mr. Awad behaving suspiciously successful the country of the time schoolhouse a time anterior to the attack.

Awad had initially been arraigned connected assault-and-battery charges successful Brighton District Court for the onslaught connected Rabbi Shlomo Noginski successful the parkland crossed the thoroughfare from Shaloh House. He is presently being held astatine Bridgewater State Hospital.

A Suffolk County expansive assemblage indicted Awad for equipped battle with intent to murder, aggravated battle and artillery by means of a unsafe limb (knife), battle by means of a unsafe limb (gun), battle and artillery for the intent of intimidation resulting successful bodily injury, violating an individual’s law rights, 2 counts of battle by means of a unsafe limb and 2 counts of carrying a unsafe limb connected schoolhouse grounds, the DA's bureau reports.

According to the DA's office:

Individuals known to Mr. Awad made statements to investigators indicating that Mr. Awad held a hatred of Jewish individuals, providing the required grounds of hateful motive to enactment charges nether the Commonwealth’s hatred transgression statutes.

The DA's bureau provided this relationship of Noginski's stabbing:

Security camera footage captured Mr. Awad approaching the victim, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski connected the Jewish time school’s steps arsenic a children’s campy was underway astatine the determination connected July 1, 2021. The victim’s benignant of formal made him identifiable arsenic an Hasidic Jew, and a ample menorah connected the school’s grounds made wide that the instauration was affiliated with Judaism. Mr. Awad allegedly drew a limb that appeared to beryllium a weapon and, done words and gestures, made what the unfortunate interpreted to beryllium a request for the keys to the schoolhouse van. When the rabbi, successful fear, attempted to manus implicit the keys, Mr. Awad rejected the keys and alternatively motioned for the rabbi to participate the van successful an evident effort to isolate him.

At the aforesaid time, Mr. Awad enactment distant the limb and pulled retired a knife. The unfortunate took vantage of that accidental to fly into a adjacent park. Mr. Awad chased aft him and attacked him with the knife. In total, the rabbi was stabbed 9 times and suffered superior wounds to the precocious near thorax adjacent his bosom and heavy lacerations to his near arm, which helium had utilized to shield himself from the convulsive attack.

Witnesses called 911 and Boston Police officers arrived wrong minutes. Officers located Mr. Awad successful a adjacent alleyway. He was equipped and brandished a weapon astatine the officers. Boston Police Officers skillfully deescalated the enactment and successfully convinced Mr. Awad to driblet his weapon. Mr. Awad was taken into custody with a struggle, but without a azygous limb being discharged.

In summation to BPD detectives and investigators from the DA's civil-rights unit, FBI agents besides participated successful the investigation.

Innocent, etc.