Man charged with seven hate-crime attacks on women in East Williamsburg
Most took place at Morgan Avenue subway station
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Wednesday that an East Williamsburg man has been indicted on numerous charges of assault, strangulation and burglary as hate crimes and other charges for allegedly attacking seven women in East Williamsburg, allegedly selecting his victims because they were female and light-skinned.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This defendant’s alleged violent and unprovoked attacks endangered the women he targeted and caused widespread fear in the community. I am committed to prosecuting all hate crimes where victims, including as alleged in this case, are targeted because of their gender, skin color or race.”
The District Attorney’s Office identified the defendant as Khari Covington, 29, who resides in an East Williamsburg transitional housing center.
He was arraigned Wednesday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun on a 52-count indictment in which he is charged with second-degree burglary as a hate crime, second-degree strangulation as a hate crime, third-degree assault as a hate crime, third-degree menacing as a hate crime and other related charges. His bail was continued at $150,000.
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