Man convicted in New Jersey attack, slaying on basis of race - Danbury News Times

Prosecutors said Hubbard told investigators that helium had been sleeping successful his car aft a combat with his ex-girlfriend, and erstwhile helium woke up helium saw the unfortunate walking adjacent and decided to onslaught him due to the fact that helium was white. He said helium astir apt would person near Wolkowitz unsocial if helium was Black, authorities said.

Authorities said Hubbard punched and kicked Wolkowitz from behind, took his wallet and keys, dragged him into the parking batch and ran him implicit earlier fleeing successful the victim's vehicle. The Sayreville antheral was besides convicted of bias intimidation, theft and centrifugal conveyance theft, eluding and a weapons crime. He is scheduled for sentencing March 31.

Defense attorneys argued that Hubbard suffered from superior intelligence illness, including bipolar disorder, that prevented him from knowing what helium was doing oregon appreciating its wrongfulness, but jurors rejected their plea for an acquittal connected insanity grounds.

The Asbury Park Press said Wolkowitz worked arsenic photographer, EMT and ambulance supervisor, and his enactment often appeared successful the Asbury Park Press.

One of the victim's sisters, Judy Marcus, speaking for the household extracurricular the courtroom, called the lawsuit “a surviving nightmare for astir 5 years for each of us.” She praised the enactment of investigators and prosecutors that she said ”gave america the quality to spell connected and extremity the nightmare.’’

Marcus said the ordeal was peculiarly hard due to the fact that some of their parents were Holocaust survivors and, for 2 years, portion her parent was inactive alive, the household couldn’t carnivore to archer her that her lad had been murdered, the Asbury Park Press reported.