A man from Illinois has been accused of the violent attack of hate crime against two Jewish students at the University of Depaul last year.
Adam Erkan, 20, is four charges for serious crimes, including two charges of hate crimes and two aggravated battery charges that cause great body damage.
Prosecutors claim that Erkan attacked Max Long and Michael Kaminsky, while the couple was peacefully reading for Israel on the University of Depaul campus in Chicago on November 6. The authorities said at that time that they were also looking for a second suspect.
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Adam Erkan, 20, has four charges of four serious crimes, including two charges of hate crimes and two charges of aggravated aggression that cause great body damage, the mood of an alleged attack against two Jewish students at the University of Depaul last year. (Chicago Police Department)
Erkan, who was not a university student, supposedly approached a lot as he used a face that covered and did anti -Semitic insults, according to the police. A second suspect gave a long time and any of Kaminsky when he tried to intervene, police said.
The Cook County Prosecutor and the Chicago Police Department did not respond immediately to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
Erkan’s father identified the police after the surveillance images captured Erkan fleeing the scene in a Silver 2011 Toyota Rav-4, according to prosecutors.
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Max Long and Michael Kaminsky talk to Mike Tinbin of Fox News about being attacked at the Depaul University in Chicago. (Fox News)
The authorities were able to obtain video images from the incident, and the police are still looking for the second suspect.
Fox News Digital could not locate a lawyer who represents.
Long, a reservist of the Israeli defense forces, lost consciousness and suffered a brain injury due to the attack, while Kaminsky suffered a fractured Wist and required surgery.
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The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has published images of two suspects sought to attack two Jewish students near the University of Depaul in what the police are describing as a “battery/hate crime.” (Chicago Police Department)
“It is definitely a feeling of relief,” Long said, and added, “I have said many times, I felt safer to have the support of my team in the army around me in Gaza than many times on my own university campus in Chicago.”
Erkan was arrested outside his home earlier this week and made his first appearance in court on Thursday. A judge ordered Erkan to be a hero without bail while waiting for the trial.
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“We are extremely grateful for the work of the police who invested this case and Applehed to the suspect,” officials from the University of Depaul said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “The suspect is not a member of the Depaul community. The acts of hatred and violence do not take place in Depaul. We condemn anti -Semitism in all its forms and sympathize with those affected by this reckless act.”
Earlier this month, Long and Kaminsky filed a lawsuit together with the law draft against Depaul University, claiming that officials allowed the anti -Semitic rhetoric to infiltrate the campus.
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“We appreciate the work done by the Chicago Police Department to identify and detain the suspect, and we hope that the state prosecutor to rinse this strongly as the attack of the conspiracy and the hate crime that was,” Gerard Filitti, the senior council of the Lawfare project.
“We have all the confidence that the second accessory will be won in Apple shortly. As the judge made for yesterday’s position was made, the evidence shows a plan to attack Max and Michael, and its methodical implementation. It is highly Bey, it remains a danger to the Jewish community and establish an important precedent in the Hate Crime Prosecutor’s Office.”
Max Bacall and Mike Tinbin of Fox News contributed to this report.