A Manhattan man who screamed antisemitic slurs at a Jewish couple, sucker-punched a social media influencer, and attacked two other women in a months-long pattern of racially motivated violence was sentenced Tuesday to 3-to-9 years in prison.
Skiboky Stora, 42, received the sentence from Justice Josh Hanshaft in Manhattan Supreme Court after being convicted in February of assault, hate crime, stalking, and harassment charges. The jury needed just 30 minutes to find him guilty following a four-week trial.
Among the most disturbing incidents in the case was a November 2023 confrontation in Union Square, where Stora approached a Jewish couple and screamed “Die, Jew! Die.”
Prosecutors said all of his victims were either white or Jewish, and that his self-recorded videos showed him shouting slurs against white people — footage he tried to dismiss at sentencing as artificial intelligence fabrications.
“It’s an AI video, artificial intelligence generated video,” Stora ranted before the judge Tuesday. “The people are being framed throughout New York state.”
He also told the court he was “not an ignorant person,” claimed to be a descendant of Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, and announced he is currently registered to run for governor of New York. He has previously mounted long-shot campaigns for city mayor.
The antisemitic confrontation was one of at least four attacks prosecutors tied to Stora. In September 2023, he elbowed a 17-year-old student in Chelsea. The following month, he elbowed a 37-year-old woman near West 17th Street. And on March 25, 2024, he walked up behind a social media influencer on West 17th Street and punched her without warning, sending her to the ground. The influencer, who has 1.6 million followers on TikTok, was on her way to record a podcast when the unprovoked attack occurred. She was so shaken that she apologized to her attacker in the moment.
Stora was arrested two days later, and investigators then linked him to the earlier crimes.
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