A man convicted of killing a Jewish man during the infamous 1991 Crown Heights race riot was stabbed in the head with an ice pick this morning, in what may be a road-rage incident.
Lemrick Nelson was found outside his car at 168th Street and Riverside Drive at around 1 a.m., with a stab wound in his head and a bloody ice pick on the ground nearby, police said.
Nelson was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
Nelson was convicted of federal civil rights crimes in the stabbing death of Yankel Rosenbaum. Nelson, who was 16 at the time of the incident, served 10 years in prison before his release in 2004.
The Brooklyn riot was sparked when a Hasidic motorcade struck and killed a black child, Gavin Cato, 7. Hours later, a mob of angry black residents, including Nelson, hunted down Rosenbaum, a visiting Australian who had nothing to do with the fatal accident.
Bloody rioting, and clashes with cops, continued for days. By the end, 152 cops and 38 residents were injured, six stores were looted, and 27 police cars damaged.
Nelson has been living incognito and apparently untroubled by his past: He told the Post earlier this year that, “Up until today, I left it alone. I don’t even think about it.”
Nelson told the Post in May that he is now a sober family man who lives with his girlfriend and young daughter.
“I don’t drink anymore because of what happened in 1991,” he said. Nelson’s legal team had blamed his violent act on drunkenness.
“That was 19 years ago,” he said. “I was a kid then. I made a mistake. Kids make mistakes. I’m a man now. I’ve never been in or out of trouble. I don’t live that life.”
Sad
Jewish Blood,is 10 times of a Goim. The 1991 Riots,were unfortunate.But Al Sharpton,im sure made this out to be , the Hassidics,a Bad Name.? Hasheem,Protect all Jews ,in the World. Good ,YOM TOV
Leave the punishment to G-d.
It doesn’t do you any good to be filled with rage and hate when what’s done is done.
We do not need to suffer further.
A violent man was violently attacked because this is what happens to people who live by violence.
He must have survived for a reason, and we can only hope that this latest twist causes him some remorse for the horrible, horrible thing he has done. And that he can use this remorse to work for a better world.
Nelson must have gotten someone pretty angry if that soneone came after him with an ice pick. I would venture to guess he’s still a shady character despite his protestations to the contrary.
amen!!!
HE SHOULD DIE A DEATH LIKE DOEG HOADOME.
he is obviously still a dangerous man and hes walking the streets after a few years in prison while rubashkin has 27 years
it was wrong?!
that’s a pretty subtle way to describe a vicious and senseless murder!
midah k’neged midah
Believe me, Norman Rosenbaum may he be well, has suffered years and is still suffering daily over his brother’s death. Lemrick is scum of the earth and again and again, hopefully Hashem will put him through dozens more punishments till the grave. I’m sorry to sound like this, but we are talking of a horrifying cold blooded creep.
guys i dont really think that its our place to get back at lemrick (speaking to everyone except people directly involved with 1991) i think we should just leave the judgement to Him. whatever He decides to happen will happen no matter what WE say.
but i still think that what Lemrick did was wrong
it shows hashem runs the world
midah cneged midah
i hope he dies
however, amy he still die a slow and painful death!!
I am truly disappointed that he is in stable condition, and I wish him a long lifetime of pain and disability. However, I also understand that brain damage is not a concern when the likes of Lemrick Nelson YMS sustains a head injury.
You are right. Thank you for bringing out the truth.
But this article is a reprint from the NY Post. I hope you will also send your comment to them, as they are the source of the wrongful description of what happened.
Like it says in Pirkei Avos:
Al de’ateft atfuch v’soif metayfuyich yetufun…
VIN: “The family of Yankel Rosenbaum, the Jewish Orthodox doctoral student Nelson stabbed in the riots, called it Old Testament justice.
“Thou who drowns someone else, will drown,” said Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the Rosenbaum family. “It is now that the stabber gets stabbed. ”
but he dies at an old age, it’s really counted as a punishment…
This is just the first blow to Nelson. An ice pick represents is a “cold” heartless instrument picking away at solid ice…There will be more IY”H coming Lemrick. Stay tuned. Only from Hashem.
Kein yoivdo kol oivecha hashem
if it didnt kill him,, it was not bad enough,,,
When someone is Chayov Meiso by Divine decree for having killed a Jew, a day or another, his time will come. By reading his remarks, he seems to have no regrets for the murder he committed 19 years ago. Without Teshuvah, you cannot escape a Divine decree.
What good is this if he doesn’t get a fatal blow? What he did to that poor innocent man?There is no penalty good enough.
Yup
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy
But I hope the man was finally dealt justice.
may he suffer as he caused others to suffer.
Hashem rules the world – sometimes we can see it so clearly
This mamash show’s that G-D is running the show all of the time I was born on the block where the riots started I was only 6 months old and being locked in my apt for 3 days wasn’t exactly healthy for me but don’t worry it was important to let the black community or shall I say the Sharpton crew let out their rage
could we please refer to the incident of 1991 by its correct name?
IT WAS A POGROM
the first one in America, and they said it couldn’t happen here. by whitewashing the truth, we are allowing history to be forgotten. only jews were targeted. my goyish neighbors remained immune to the violence perpetrated upon us.