An Israeli yeshiva student was stabbed by an assailant at the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York.
The attacker, a black male later named as Calvin Peters, entered the Hasidic movement’s headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood and stabbed the 22-year-old man several times in the upper body.
The building, which houses a synagogue and study hall, serves as the international headquarters of the Chabad movement and attracts visitors from around the world.
The victim, named Levi Rosenblat, was stabbed in the side of the head. ‘’He was conscious but he was bleeding a lot,” one witness told New York’s Daily News.
He ran outside after the stabbing and was treated at the scene by Hatzalah before being brought to the hospital.
The Yeshiva World News website reported that he was conscious and had spoken to a relative on the phone.
A 9-inch (23-centimeter) knife was recovered at the scene, police said.
The attacker, who appears in a video speaking English with a heavy accent, was shot by police who arrived at the scene, after he refused to put down his weapon.
A witness told the Daily News that the suspect, who was reportedly a homeless man with a criminal record, entered the complex screaming: “I will kill the Jew, I want to kill the Jew.”