A man arrested after launching a brutal, unprovoked attack on an Asian man on a New York subway platform has now been arrested for the heinous crime.
On March 9, New York Police Department arrested Christian Jeffers, 48, and charged him with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing — all with hate crime designations — and criminal possession of a weapon, according to authorities. Jeffers is male but identifies as a woman.
Jeffers was caught on camera Tuesday night in a wig and purple lipstick attacking an Asian man with a hammer on a subway platform in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He was arrested less than 24 hours later on Wednesday, March 9. Prior to this incident, Jeffers had 47 previous convictions dating back to 2007.
Jeffers was released from prison last summer after serving nearly six years on a second-degree robbery conviction. Just over a week later, he was again detained for petit larceny, according to the New York Post.
Other prior charges include prostitution, grand larceny, and public lewdness.
“I want to get him locked up because he was pretty aggressive,” the victim of the hammer attack said, speaking to the New York Post.
“He ended up bumping into me and then after that, he turned around trying to get into my face pretty aggressively, and in that kind of process he ended up stepping on me,” the victim explained. “He stepped on my foot and then after that, he took out the hammer and then I was hit on the head.
“I didn’t see the hammer. I just saw him reaching into a bag, pulled something out,” he continued. “It happened, like, too quick for me to react.”
Jeffers, wearing a wig, can be seen in the video yelling at the victim: “Why you hit me? Why you f***ing hit me?”
A photo taken at the scene just after the assault shows the man sitting on the floor and being tended to by paramedics, his head and face bloodied.
During his arraignment on Friday, prosecutors revealed that Jeffers allegedly attacked the victim on Tuesday “with little to no provocation.” Jeffers’ crime was just the latest in a growing trend of attacks on people of predominantly Asian heritage in New York City. Just last week, a man was charged with attacking 7 Asian-American women in a hate crime spree.
Jeffers is currently being detained at the Eric M. Taylor Center, a facility for males, and is held at a $340,000 bail.
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