A New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder. A jury in western New York also found 27-year-old Hadi Matar guilty of assault Friday.
A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder and assault for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022.
A New Jersey man who repeatedly stabbed author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage has been convicted of attempted murder.
Lawyers are delivering their closing arguments in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a western New York lecture stage.
Lawyers are set to deliver their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in a knife attack that left the author blind in one eye and with other serious injuries.
The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense.
Mater was apprehended on Aug. 12, 2022, after authorities say he rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution's amphitheater and repeatedly stabbed Rushdie, 77, and injured entrepreneur Henry Reese, 75, who was on stage with the author.
A man has been convicted of attempted murder for the 2022 on-stage attack on author Salman Rushdie, which left the novelist blind in one eye.
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