Funeral for Timothy Caughman, black man slain in alleged hate crime - Newsday

Mourners gathered Saturday morning for the funeral for the black man who was slain in an alleged hate crime by a white veteran from Baltimore who the NYPD said traveled to New York City last month with the aim of killing black people.

Services for Timothy Caughman, who died last month from his wounds shortly after a stabbing, began shortly after 10 a.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in southeast Queens.

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The NYPD said that the killer picked New York City because it’s the media capital of the world and would attract more attention than if he’d killed elsewhere.

“Even on the white supremacist who did the crime, we still have to have compassion,” the Rev. Christopher Howard, the pastor, said from the pulpit at the church where Caughman’s father was a minister.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has called the attack “domestic, racist terrorism.”

On Saturday morning, de Blasio eulogized Caughman.

“He was attacked because of who he was, plain and simple, and don’t think for a moment it was an attack on one stray man, because it was an attack on all of us,” de Blasio said. “Eight and a half million people were attacked that night, and it can’t be seen any other way. It was an attack on New York City.”

James Harris Jackson, 28, the accused killer, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism and as a hate crime. Jackson, who served in the Army, was denied bail and is jailed.

According to the NYPD, Jackson stabbed Caughman, 66, a black man he randomly encountered on a midtown street, multiple times with a sword before fleeing. Jackson later walked into a police station and turned himself in.

Caughman stumbled to a nearby police precinct for help; he was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he later died.

Caughman will be interred at Flushing Cemetery.

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