The suspect in the attack on author Salman Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder, police said.
After the attack, police detained Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey.
Matar was formally charged with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault,” Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said in a statement on Saturday.
“He was charged last night on these charges and remanded in custody without bail,” the statement added.
Rushdie, 75, suffered liver damage, fractured nerves in an arm and eye, was on a ventilator and could not speak, his agent Andrew Wylie said Friday night.
“The news is not good. Salman is likely to lose one eye, nerves in his arm have been severed and his liver has been stabbed and damaged,” his agent, Andrew Wylie, said in a written statement.
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