Police arrested a 28-year-old
Baltimore man on Wednesday who admitted to fatally stabbing a black man in
Manhattan, telling police he hated black men.
James
Harris Jackson was charged with murder in Monday's stabbing and death of
Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man who suffered multiple wounds to the
chest and back, police said.
Jackson
turned himself in after the New York City Police Department asked for the
public's help in finding him, and distributed surveillance video and a
photograph of him to the media. After seeing the images, Jackson found his way
to a Times Square police station and surrendered, police said.
“I’m the
person that you’re looking for,” Jackson told police, Assistant Police Chief
William Aubrey told the Associated Press.
Jackson
traveled by bus on Friday to New York City to the "media capital of the
world" to generate as much attention as possible, police said.
On Monday,
Jackson was wandering the streets of the city, wearing an overcoat that
concealed a 26-inch sword, when he encountered Caughman, who was picking
through trash, police said. Jackson used the sword to stab Caughman repeatedly,
police said.
At
about 11:30 p.m., Caughman staggered into the Midtown South police precinct
bleeding of multiple wounds, police said. He was pronounced dead at
Bellevue Hospital Center, according to NYPD.
When
Jackson turned himself in, police recovered the sword.
Jackson
told police that he hated black men for at least a decade. He was staying at a
hotel in midtown, police said.
“The
reason he picked New York is because it’s the media capital of the world, and
he wanted to make a statement,” Aubrey said.
Police suggested that
Jackson had been thinking of attacking others, but instead chose to turn
himself in.
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