A member of the Lubavitch community, center, leaves the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters guarded by members of the New York Police Department, left, on Tuesday.
Associated Press
By KAREN MATTHEWS and ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Authorities are stepping up security at the headquarters of a major Jewish organization in Brooklyn after a mentally ill man wandered inside and stabbed a student.
The man, Calvin Peters, was shot and killed by police. He was seen on amateur video waving a knife in the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights at 1:40 a.m. Tuesday after the attack on Levi Rosenblat. Rosenblat, wounded in the side of the head, was listed in stable condition.
Police say the stabbing was not believed to be connected to terrorism. But it shook the Jewish community, still reeling over an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue by two Palestinian cousins last month that left four worshippers and an officer dead.
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