A man accused of perpetrating multiple hate crimes against Sikhs in New York City died after being stabbed in the chest by an assailant on Thursday night in Brooklyn.
Vernon Douglas, 19, had been charged with the highly-publicised assault of a 70-year-old Indian visitor to New York named Nirmal Singh. Mr Douglas had reportedly punched Mr Singh multiple times in the face while walking in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens early on the morning of April 3.
