Officers called an ambulance and Mr. Caughman was taken Bellevue Hospital Center, where he was later pronounced dead. In remembering Mr. Caughman, his cousin Seth Peek, of Queens, said he wanted people to know that Mr. Caughman had a full life. In the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Caughman worked with young people in Queens in a program called the Neighborhood Youth Corps, Mr. Mr. Jackson told investigators where he had discarded the murder weapon, a 26-inch sword with an 18-inch blade, and told them he had knives in his pocket. The attack on Mr. Caughman occurred as cities across the country, especially New York, grapple with a rise in hate crimes.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2017 16:52 UTC