51岁的劳尔·莫拉莱斯（Raul Morales）周四下午在曼哈顿上西区持刀连续袭击两名男性，其中一人为犹太人，另一人为亚裔，两起事件相隔约两个街区 [1]。犹太受害者刚从一家犹太中心离开后遭遇袭击 [1]。作案过程中，嫌疑人喊出了阿拉伯语短语"真主至大" [1]。
两名受害者均被送往医院接受治疗，伤势稳定，预计能够生存 [1]。莫拉莱斯于周五被逮捕，面临谋杀未遂等多项指控 [1]。值得注意的是，虽然两起袭击性质相似，但仅针对犹太受害者的袭击被按仇恨犯罪罪名起诉 [1]。
纽约市检察官詹姆斯在周五早晨的新闻发布会上指出，今年已确认的仇恨犯罪中，超过一半针对犹太人 [1]。
A 51-year-old man identified as Raul Morales was arrested Friday following two knife attacks on male victims in Manhattan's Upper West Side on Thursday afternoon [1]. One victim was Jewish and had just left a Jewish community center, while the other was Asian [1]. The two incidents occurred roughly two blocks apart [1].
Both victims were hospitalized with stable injuries and are expected to survive [1]. Morales was taken into custody and faces charges including attempted murder and other offenses [1]. The assault on the Jewish victim was charged as a hate crime, but the attack on the Asian victim was not charged under hate crime statutes [1].
According to reports, Morales shouted an Arabic phrase, "Allahu akbar," during the attacks [1].
At a Friday morning press briefing, New York City's top prosecutor noted that hate crimes against Jewish individuals account for more than half of all confirmed hate crimes in the city this year [1].