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Jail time for man guilty in hate-crime killing of Asian

A memorial to Yao Pan Ma, on Jan 21, 2021, who spent eight months in a coma before dying as a result of the injuries he sustained in a 2021 attack. (Photo: New York Times)

NEW YORK: A man who admitted to brutally, and fatally, attacking a 61-year-old immigrant in East Harlem two years ago because the victim was Asian was sentenced to 22 years in prison Friday.

The sentencing of the man, Jarrod Powell, came several months after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter as a hate crime in the killing of the immigrant, Yao Pan Ma, according to prosecutors.

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