The stabber has been charged with attempted murder as a hate crime, assault, aggravated harassment and criminal possession of a weapon. According to police reports, he was "very, very intoxicated" at the time of arrest. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/25/nyc-cabbie-slashed-a.html
Mr. Ahmed survived: he received stitches in his neck, and has been released from Bellevue Hospital. What is most bizarre about this story, to me, is the background of the 21-year-old suspect:
Michael Enright is a film student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and has been working at Intersection International, a multifaith and multicultural effort which seeks to promote justice and peace. The project's website is strongly supportive of the Codoba House project in lower Manhattan and videos of its leader, Imam Faisel Rauf, are posted on their website.
The 21-year-old aspiring filmmaker had been to Afghanistan recently, working on a documentary on a high school buddy of his who enlisted in the Marines. His efforts to embed with his friend were the subject of a profile in the local paper.
Here is Enright's Flickr stream, and here is his Facebook profile. The New York Post adds this:
Enright told police he works for an Internet media company who had recently spent time with a combat unit in Afghanistan filming military exercises until this past May. He has been charged with attempted murder.
That "Internet Media Company" would appear to be USVets.TV, a video project serving veterans and their families. This press release trumpets Michael Enright's involvement with "TV Worldwide Live NAB 2010 'Salute the Troops' Webcast Featuring USVets.TV Reporter Michael Enright Embedded With Marines in Afghanistan in Demo of Streaming Technology.
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