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Police: Baltimore Man Suspected In Fatal NYC Stabbing; Says He Went To Kill Black Person

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- New York City police arrested a Baltimore man as a suspect in the murder of a senior citizen.

28-year-old James Jackson is now behind bars, police say the Baltimore man traveled to Manhattan with a goal to kill black men.

Ava-Joye Burnett reports, police say the hate filled mission had been brewing for years.

Police say the murder was racially motivated. They now want to increase the severity of the charges against him.

Police say Jackson, a military veteran hopped on a bus bound for New York on Friday with the intent on killing black men.

Then on Monday night, police say he used this mini sword and randomly stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman in the back in Midtown Manhattan.

Surveillance video later showed the suspect bolting from the scene, but after the images were plastered across the media, police say Jackson surrendered.

Police say it appears Jackson had been harboring these feelings for quite some time and that his actions were clearly racially motivated.

"Statements which he had made which I am not going to get specific to, it's well over 10 years that he'd been harboring these feelings of hate towards male blacks," says detective Bill Aubry.

Wednesday afternoon, no one answered the door at Jackson's house in Hampden. Baltimore police officers were also on the block, but the department says as of right now, Jackson is not connected to a crime in the City.

His neighbors are stunned.

"I think it's crazy because nobody on the street do stuff like that. We're just regular neighbors," Rance Brown says.

"It does surprise me and it scares me," Stephanie Misanik says.

Jackson has been charged with second degree murder, but police say they're working with the DA to possibly upgrade to reflect a hate crime.

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