A jury also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. The verdicts were delivered after less than two hours of deliberations following a ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) — A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022. Matar had previously pleaded ...

A Chautauqua County jury found Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, New Jersey, guilty of the stabbing Rushdie as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. Matar's head was down as the jury ...

The man, Hadi Matar, faces up to 32 years in prison. Prosecutors said he rushed onstage at an arts conference and stabbed the famed author about 15 times. By Lola Fadulu Lola Fadulu reported from ...

Jurors, who deliberated for less than two hours, also found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on stage with Rushdie at the time. Matar ran onto the stage at the ...

Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by a Chautauqua County, New York, jury of rushing a stage where Rushdie, 77, was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute on Aug. 12, 2022, in a bid to kill ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022. Matar, 27, was found guilty of ...

Jurors delivered the verdict after deliberating for less than two hours, also finding Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of assault for wounding a man who was on the Chautauqua Institution stage with Rushdie ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault for the attack on Salman Rushdie. Matar faces up to 25 years in prison for the charges. (This story was ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A New York jury has convicted Hadi Matar of ...

“It occurred to me that I was dying. That was my predominant thought,” Rushdie told jurors during Matar’s trial. The writer said he first thought his attacker was striking him with a ...