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“It is important that we recognize in relation to the Jewish community … they are being terrorized and hate crime is increasing.”
Prosecutor Rachael Rollins spoke to a crowd during a vigil on Brighton Common, across from Shaloh House, a Jewish day school in Brighton. Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed several times in front of the school on Thursday. Suzanne Kreiter / Globe Staff
Suspect identified after Rabbi was stabbed to death in Brighton
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins says her civil rights team and that of the Boston Police Department are investigating the non-fatal stabbing of a rabbi in Brighton.
Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton was arrested and charged with assault and assault with a dangerous weapon and assault and assault on a police officer in Thursday’s attack near Shaloh House Chabad Center. He is due to be tried in the Brighton District Court on Friday.
The victim, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, serves as a rabbi and teacher at Shaloh House. The police reacted to the reported stabbing around 1:19 p.m.
During her remarks at a vigil for Noginski outside Shaloh House Friday morning, Rollins said her office would request a hearing on the suspect’s dangerousness and that she intended to be part of the prosecution.
“This is an ongoing civil rights inquiry; The civil rights division of the Boston Police Department and my civil rights division are working hard on it, ”she said. “We will keep the community informed and let you know what happens after the prosecution progresses.”
Rollins spoke of recent incidents of anti-Semitism, including the Winthrop shooting last Saturday in which two black people were killed – authorities reportedly found anti-Semitic language and symbols written by Nathan Allen, the suspect killed by police.
“It is important that we recognize, with regard to the Jewish community, that not only is it globally but also locally terrorized and that hate crime is increasing,” Rollins said. “When we think of Boston, our Holocaust memorial has been desecrated twice.”
Flowers were placed outside Shaloh House, a Jewish day school in Brighton. – Suzanne Kreiter / Globe Staff
Mayor Kim Janey said the attack “injured a rabbi and shook a community”.
“And I believe that attacking a member of our community is attacking us all,” she said.
She also mentioned the investigation into whether the incident was a hate crime.
“It is important that we understand what the motives for this hatred, this violence are,” she said. “There is an investigation into whether or not it is a hate crime and we will get the answers we are looking for.”
A vigil was organized on Brighton Common, across from Shaloh House, a Jewish day school in Brighton. Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed several times in front of the school Thursday. – Suzanne Kreiter / Globe Staff
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