Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt played slow-motion video showing Matar emerging from the audience, sprinting toward Rushdie, and launching a violent attack. Schmidt described the stabbing as a deliberate, targeted act, arguing that striking someone 10 to 15 times in the face and neck made death a foreseeable outcome. A trauma surg

During closing arguments Friday morning, jurors heard starkly different accounts of the assault, which occurred on Aug. 12, 2022, while Rushdie was speaking before an audience at the education center. Henry Reese, who was moderating the event, was also wounded in the attack. Matar was found guilty of assault for injuring Reese. ????????????  

A jury has convicted a New Jersey man for attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie while the author was on stage at a speaking event in upstate New York. ?????  

"The Department of Justice has realized its error and now seeks to correct the prior Administration's mistake. There is nothing unusual or suspect about setting right what was wrong. That is what justice does," they wrote. ????? ???????

While the investigation into Adams was initiated at least a year before the mayor began aligning himself with the immigration policies of President Donald Trump, Adam's lawyers continued to argue the case was politically motivated. ????????????