Chinatown Woman Followed Home Was Stabbed 40 Times: Reports

CHINATOWN, NY — The Chinatown woman killed in her apartment by a man who followed her home was stabbed more than 40 times, it was revealed at a late night arraignment, according to court records and reports.

Prosecutor Dafna Yoran revealed horrific details of Christina Yuna Lee's death at Assamad Nash's Monday night arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, where court records show he was charged with murder and sexually-motivated burglary.

Nash could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of murdering Christina Yuna Lee in the bathroom of her Christie Street apartment early Sunday morning, court records show.

Yoran said Nash tried to evade police first by imitating a woman's voice, saying, "We don't need the police here — go away," reported the New York Times.

But police broke down the door and found Lee dead in her bathtub, Nash hiding under her bed and the knife, the expected to be the murder weapon, stashed behind a dresser, the Times added.

Nash — on supervised release at the time of Lee's killing on three open cases against him — denied the charges against him when police escorted him out of the Fifth Precinct Monday, according to NBC News and other outlets.

"I didn't kill anyone," Nash reportedly said.

A vigil was also held on Tuesday in Chinatown's Sara D. Roosevelt Park, where multitudes of residents, elected officials, activists and others paid their respect to Lee's memory.

“We as Asian women are walking around in the level of fear that we have never had to before in my whole entire life in New York City," City Council Member Julie Won said during the vigil. "This is not acceptable. And it is not okay for us to forget why it is that Asian American women are being targeted? Why is it that when Asian Americans are in these violent crimes, why is it seniors and why is it women?"

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said that Lee was "failed" by the institutions that were supposed to keep her safe.

“We did fail Christina," Lander said at the vigil on Tuesday. "And we know we are going to be back here again if we don’t change what we are doing."

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