The man accused of stabbing people at a Hanukkah celebration in New York faces five additional federal hate crime charges after authorities alleged he targeted the victims because of their religion
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The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York cited an indictment against the suspect, 37-year-old Grafton Thomas, charging him with five counts of willfully causing bodily injury because of the victims' religion, federal prosecutors said Thursday.They previously charged Thomas with five counts of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill, which also is a hate crime. Thomas has not entered a plea in the federal case.
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