A man was arrested after allegedly threatening a Jewish mother and her 7-year-old daughter at the Bingo Wholesale kosher grocery store in Inwood, in New York’s Five Towns area, on Sunday morning, while shouting antisemitic slogans and making shooting gestures, Nassau County police said.
According to police, the man approached the 34-year-old woman and her daughter at about 10:35 a.m., held his hands in the shape of a gun and imitated gunshots as he moved closer to them. He allegedly shouted “Free Palestine, Hail Hitler, kill all Jews and kill Israel.”
According to police, the suspect also made shooting gestures and sounds at other shoppers in the store before running out, shouting “Kill the Jews” as he fled.
Nassau County Police detectives located the suspect, Hasani Ferguson, 36, of Inwood, at about 11:30 p.m. that night on Sheridan Avenue, and arrested him without incident.
Ferguson has been charged with making a threat of mass harm, third-degree menacing and disorderly conduct. He was arraigned Monday at First District Court in Hempstead.
The ADL’s New York/New Jersey office condemned the incident.
