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Fatal Stabbing Chinatown
NEW YORK (77WABC) — In an ironic twist, a former coworker tells the New York Post the 35-year-old Korean American woman stabbed to death after being followed into her Chinatown apartment Sunday had worked to fight against anti-Asian hate.
I will miss you so much Christina pic.twitter.com/HqgS1DzOAu
— kenneth takanami (@kennethtakanami) February 14, 2022
Christina Yuna Lee and other Asian employees at music platform Splice “formed a channel” at the company for mutual support. That came after a deadly shooting rampage in the Atlanta area in March 2021, where six of the nine victims were Asian women.
“It was an emotional and gutting introduction,” Kenneth Takanami recalled. “We met on a call with other Asians in our work community to support one another.”
Police say a homeless man — 25-year-old Assamad Nash — followed her from the street into her Chinatown apartment. Prosecutors said Lee — found dead in her bathtub — had been stabbed more than 40 times.
Surveillance footage obtained by the Post shows Nash trailing Lee when she returned home at about 4:20 A.M. Sunday.
