Memorial To Asian Woman Killed In Chinatown Attacked, Police Say

CHINATOWN, NY — A candlelight memorial on the block where Christina Yuna Lee was viciously killed last month was damaged by a man who gave it a swift and steady kick, recently released shows.

The man's kick sent flowers and candles flying outside 111 Christie St. about 8 a.m. on Feb. 16, just three days after Yuna Lee was brutally murdered at the same address, according to video released by the NYPD Wednesday.

A sign above the memorial appears notes New York City's recent 361 percent increase in anti-Asian hate crime.

The man then continues down the street, police said.

The investigation is ongoing and there have been no arrests.

The video comes the same day that the man accused of fatally stabbing Yuna Lee 40 times in her Chinatown apartment last month was indicted on criminal charges, prosecutors announced.

Assamad Nash, 25, did not appear Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, where prosecutors indicted him on charges of murder and burglary as a sexually motivated felony, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).