![]() ![]() “The individual responsible for the attack yesterday, Hadi Matar, has now been formally charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree,” Chautauqua County district attorney Jason Schmidt said Saturday, according to Reuters. Matar, a 24-year-old living in New Jersey, was charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree on Saturday. “Salman will likely lose one eye the nerves in his arm were severed and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” “The news is not good,” his agent, Andrew Wylie, told the New York Times. He is currently on a ventilator and unable to speak, according to recent reports. Rushdie was transported to a hospital via helicopter and underwent surgery. ![]() On Friday, Rushdie, 75, was preparing to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York when a man, identified by law enforcement as Hadi Matar, rushed on stage and stabbed the author repeatedly in the neck and abdomen. ![]()
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