Prosecutors, however, claim that Safran was working out when Atadzhanov broke into his home and attacked him.
The Daily News reported that a neighbor saw Atadzhanov going in and out of the house, and called Safran’s wife to warn her.
Police had gone to the home to investigate a report of a burglary in progress when they found Safran in the basement with trauma to his head and body.
In his statement to police, Atadzhanov said that “the wife came down the stairs with a pit bull,” and scared him into a closet in the basement, where cops found him hiding inside with several tools, including a hammer.
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Something tells me the leading theories on this thread are wrong.
Search perp’s name with attempted rape of tourist 2016
Rape+ stabbing+ name
my guess is Russian Muslim