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  • Man Convicted in ’91 Unrest Is Stabbed (Lemrick Nelson, Killer of Yankel Rosenbaum, stabbed)

    09/14/2010 8:57:01 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    New York Times ^ | 09/12/2010
    A man who was convicted in the stabbing of a Hasidic scholar in racial unrest that engulfed Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991 was stabbed early Sunday in Upper Manhattan, the police said. The man, Lemrick Nelson Jr., 35, was found unconscious on an exit ramp of the George Washington Bridge about 2 a.m., according to the Fire Department. He had a stab wound behind his ear, and an ice pick was found nearby. He was taken to Harlem Hospital Center in stable condition. Investigators were looking into whether Mr. Nelson had been attacked after a traffic dispute, the police said....
  • '91 Suspect Admits: "I Killed Yankel"

    04/29/2003 10:20:57 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 22 replies · 254+ views
    '91 Suspect Admits: "I Killed Yankel" By John Marzulli NY DAILY NEWS Tuesday, April 29th, 2003 Lemrick Nelson did it. He now admits stabbing Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 Crown Heights riots - but insists he didn't target the Hasidic scholar because of his religion, Nelson's lawyer declared yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court. "I stabbed somebody, but not because he was a Jew, 'cause I was drunk. I had been drinking," Nelson told his girlfriend about a year after the attack, his lawyer Richard Jasper said yesterday. The bombshell stabbing admission - and radical change in legal strategy - came...