A suspect has been charged with attempted murder in the attack on author Salman Rushdie at a speaking event in New York state, ABC News reported.
'The Satanic Verses' author on ventilator, has damaged liver, severed nerves and is likely to lose eye, agent saysSalman Rushdie's agent says the writer is on a ventilator after being stabbed on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture.
The alleged attacker is Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, a law enforcement official told ABC News. He was arrested at the scene by a New York State Police trooper. The officials say investigators found photos on Matar's phone of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of Iraq's pro-Iranian militia movement, who were killed by U.S. forces in a drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3, 2020.
Chautauqua Institution president Michael Hill said during Friday's press briefing that security "has been a top priority," and that they had a state trooper and sheriff presence at the event. "People in the audience had gone up on the stage when they saw this and then grabbed the attacker, who still had a knife, I think," he told the station. "A lot of bravery."New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the attack "horrific," saying she has directed state police to "further assist however needed in the investigation."
Rushdie spent years in hiding, which he chronicled in his 2012 memoir, "Joseph Anton." The book was nominated for the United Kingdom's top nonfiction award, the Samuel Johnson prize.
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