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Lemrick Nelson, who was convicted of stabbing Hasidic scholar Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 Crown Heights race riots, was found stabbed in the head early Sunday morning. Nelson was found unconscious on Riverside Drive near West 168th Street, outside of his car, at 1 a.m. A bloodied ice pick was also discovered next to him; he was taken to Harlem Hospital Center where he is now in stable condition. A spokesman for the Rosenbaum family told the Daily News, “Thou who drowns someone else, will drown. It is now that the stabber gets stabbed. To Nelson, a crime with a knife involved is like bagel and lox.” Continue reading →