The jury is deliberating in the retrial of the man accused of killing a yeshiva student in the 1991 Crown Heights riots. Lemrick Nelson now admits he killed Yankel Rosenbaum, but says he was drunk when he stabbed him and wasn’t motivated by anti-Semitism.
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