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Jarrod Powell Biography
Who is Jarrod Powell ?
A homeless career criminal with a history of more than a dozen arrests was led into a Manhattan courthouse in handcuffs to stand trial on a hate crime murder charge for the savage beating of a Chinese immigrant, which left him in a coma. until his death eight months later.
Powell was arrested for subway fare evasion eight times between July 2002 and December 2004 before being arrested again for assault twice at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in February 2006, WABC reported.
Arrested and Charged
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday announced the new charge of second-degree murder as a hate crime against Jarrod Powell for the murder of Yao Pan Ma.
Four days after the brutal attack, Powell was arrested at Ward’s Island Homeless Men’s Shelter after being identified via surveillance video.
The indictment alleges that Powell made statements to detectives in which he claimed to have been attacked by two Korean and Japanese men the day before he assaulted Ma.
He admitted that he never reported the earlier incident and provided no descriptions of his alleged attackers other than his race.
Powell allegedly abducted a 23-year-old woman from an apartment in the New York City borough of Staten Island on January 25, 1998, before s*xually assaulting her.
He was charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, s*xual misconduct and s*xual assault, but it was not immediately clear if those were the charges he was allegedly serving time for when he was paroled in 2000.
Powell was arrested for subway fare evasion eight times between July 2002 and December 2004 before being arrested again for assault twice at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in February 2006, WABC reported.
Violence in New York City continues to spiral out of control. According to the most recent data from the NYPD, the overall crime rate is up more than 41 percent.
Powell, 50, has been accused of knocking Ma, 61, to the ground, stomping on his head half a dozen times and kicking him in the face and neck during an unprovoked attack in Harlem on April 23, 2021. .
Yao Pan Ma Death
Ma suffered a traumatic brain injury and was on life support. She died in a hospital on New Year’s Eve after eight months in a medically induced coma.
“The devastating death of Yao Pan Ma, a beloved father of two, occurred amid a wave of anti-Asian attacks on our families, friends, neighbors and New York values,” said District Attorney Bragg. “As alleged, Jarrod Powell targeted Mr. Ma for no reason other than his race.”
During Thursday’s arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court, prosecutors asked the judge to increase Powell’s bail to $3 million, which was granted.
After the hearing, Karlin Chan, a spokeswoman for the victim’s family, welcomed the news that Powell’s charge was upgraded to hate crime murder and praised the DA’s office for its handling of the case.
“We remain optimistic that the district attorney will secure a conviction and Powell will be held accountable for his actions,” Chan told the New York Daily News.
According to the indictment and statements made in the record, around 8:15 p.m. on April 23, Powell saw Ma pushing a shopping cart full of recyclable materials at the corner of 125th Street and 3rd Avenue in Harlem.
Jarrod Powell Quick and Facts
- Jarrod Powell, 50, charged with murder in the second degree as a hate crime for the killing of Yao Pan Ma
- Powell, who is homeless and has a long criminal record, is accused of attacking the Chinese immigrant as he was collecting cans in Harlem in April 2021
- Ma, 61, had his head stomped on and was kicked in the face, causing traumatic brain injury
- Ma succumbed to his injuries on New Year’s Eve, after spending eight months in medically induced coma
- Following his arrest, Powell allegedly implied he attacked Ma in retaliation for being assaulted the day before by two Asian men
