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Samira Asma-Sadeque

Family of Manhattan woman stabbed to death in 2022 sues NYPD for inaction

Street art commemorating Christina Yuna Lee in Chinatown, Manhattan, in February last year.
Street art commemorating Christina Yuna Lee in Chinatown, Manhattan, in February last year. Photograph: Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

The family of a woman who was stabbed to death in her Manhattan apartment last year has sued New York City police, saying their inaction cost the victim her life.

The lawsuit filed on Friday claims two officers stood outside Christina Yuna Lee’s apartment in Chinatown while she was being stabbed to death by an unhoused man who followed her into her building as she returned home in the early morning.

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