A New York City woman, who had just arrived home from a night out on Saturday night, was followed to her apartment building where she was stabbed to death by a homeless man, police said. .
Sunday morning Christina Yuna Lee, from 35 years old, arrived at the building where he lived on Chrystie Street in Chinatown, police told WNBC.
New surveillance video revealed that A man followed her into the building, her landlord, Brian Chin, told WNBC. “She opened the door and he walked in right behind her. She never knew he was there.”
At 4: 23 am, New York City Police Department officers responded to a call about a dispute in the building, spokesman Sgt. Edward Riley said. , in a statement.
Two terrified young women across the hall from Lee heard his screams and called the 675, WNBC reported. “Upon arrival, police found an individual barricaded and were unable to immediately gain access to the interior of the apartment,” Riley said.
When the officers finally were able to enter the apartment with the help of Emergency Services Unit officers, they found Lee in the bathroom “with bodily trauma,” Riley said.
Christina Yuna Lee was declared dead on scene.
Officers said they caught to the suspect, Assamad Nash, aged 14 , who allegedly tried to escape by jumping down a fire escape and then running inside the apartment and hiding under a bed, the New York Times reported.
The New York Post was able to obtain the chilling surveillance video, which he described as showing the suspect walking about 6 feet from Lee inside a narrow hallway as he headed to his apartment.
Nash had previously been arrested for a series of misdemeanors , according to court records cited by The New York Times. In one incident, a 62 year old man allegedly said that Nash had punched him in the face over a MetroCard dispute.
Lee was a senior creative producer at Splice, a digital music platform in New York City, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She had described herself on LinkedIn as an “experienced digital producer with a proven track record of working in the retail, fashion, fitness, media, art and music industries”.
University Graduate from Rutgers, said she was a “strong arts and design professional with a bachelor’s degree focused on art history.”
Lee’s murder is one of several attacks against Asian Americans in recent years.
Calling the murder “horrible” on Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams said in a tweet that “today we stand with our Asian community.”
This is the definition horrific. @NYPDNews is investigating this incident and we stand with our Asian community today.
The suspect is in custody, but the conditions that created him remain. The mission of this administration is clear: We won’t let this violence go unchecked. https://t.co/j8BiV6fDRe—Major Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 02, 2022
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