Cops arrested a Brooklyn man who allegedly stabbed a Jewish worshipper leaving synagogue after the attacker boasted about wanting to “kill a Jew,” police announced Monday.
Following a nearly week-long manhunt, Charles Armani, 23, was cuffed on hate crime charges for allegedly knifing 35-year-old Elias Rosner outside a Lubavitch Hasidic temple in Crown Heights on Dec. 16.
Rosner told The Post that he overheard Armani ranting about how he was “going to kill a Jew today” while spewing various antisemitic slurs — and brandishing a knife.
“I’m going to kill Jewish people, I’m going to kill a Jew today, I don’t give a f–k … We wouldn’t be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened,” the unhinged man ranted, according to Rosner.
The victim said he was the only one who “had the bravery to look him in the eye.”
Then, Armani allegedly pounced on Rosner and stabbed him once in the chest, just missing his heart. He was treated at Kings County Hospital and released a day after the attack.
Armani was charged with attempted assault, assault, aggravated harassment and menacing, all as a hate crime, police said.
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