Crime & Safety
Hate Crime Sentence: 6 Years For Brutal Antisemitic Attack On Barber
The victim was stabbed with barber's scissors inside the Yonkers barbershop he owns, in a hate crime that shocked the Hudson Valley.
YONKERS, NY — A Yonkers man responsible for a violent hate crime that shocked a Hudson Valley community has learned his fate.
Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace announced that Ahmed Al Jabali was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison and three years of post-release supervision for his antisemitic assault on a Jewish barber in Yonkers last summer.
He pleaded guilty in April to felony second-degree assault as a hate crime.
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"The Westchester County District Attorney's Office will continue to prioritize combatting antisemitism and all hate crimes," Cacace said. "There will be no tolerance for this type of despicable behavior in our community."
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On Aug. 29, Al Jabali entered Slava Shushakov's barbershop in Yonkers and asked for a shave. Al Jabali then grabbed a pair of barber's shears and called Shushakov an "[expletive] Jew." He then repeatedly tried to stab Shushakov and ended up slashing him in the arm and hand, while continuing to yell antisemitic slurs the entire time.
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