An Asian man who was brutally attacked in Harlem final 12 months has died, New York police confirmed on Saturday. Yao Pan Ma, 61, died of his accidents on December 31, police stated, and the case is now being handled as a murder. Ma was approached from behind and hit within the again final April 23. He fell to the bottom and the suspect allegedly kicked him a number of occasions within the head earlier than fleeing, police stated. Ma was taken to the hospital the place he remained till his demise. Jarrod Powell, 49, was arrested 4 days later and charged with tried homicide and two counts of assault — hate crimes. The precise expenses he's now going through aren't but clear. The assault, which remains to be being investigated, got here amid a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes within the U.S. One research discovered that experiences of anti-Asian hate crimes elevated by almost 150% in 2020, whilst hate crimes fell general by 7%. New York noticed the very best bounce in experiences. As of August final 12 months, greater than 9,000 anti-Asian incidents had been reported because the begin of the pandemic, in accordance with a report from the nonprofit coalition Cease AAPI Hate. Some have blamed the rise of anti-Asian American discrimination on former President Trump's rhetoric in his description of the coronavirus pandemic. Ma's spouse, Baozhen Chen, spoke to CBS New York in April, when her husband was in a coma. "This could not occur to my husband or anybody else. That is America," she stated. "I am very scared proper now. I am so anxious that my husband would possibly by no means come again." She stated her husband, who immigrated to America in 2018 from China, had not too long ago misplaced his dishwashing job and was accumulating cans to assist his household earlier than he was attacked. "I'm very panicked and unhappy," Chen informed CBS New York. "My husband could be very hardworking and good individual." Jordan Freiman contributed reporting.
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