By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — A 21-year-old man accused of repeatedly stabbing a Muslim cab driver in a vicious hate crime has been indicted on charges of attempted murder and assault, a law enforcement source said.
Film student Michael Enright, of Brewster, N.Y., did not appear in court on Monday for the announcement of his indictment, the Associated Press reported.
Enright faces a minimum of eight years in jail if he is convicted of the attempted murder in a hate crime of cabbie Ahmed H. Sharif on Aug. 24.
Enright was "highly intoxicated" when he hailed a cab that Tuesday evening at East 24th Street and Second Avenue and asked Sharif, “Are you Muslim?” authorities said. When Sharif replied that he was in fact Muslim, Enright allegedly stabbed him five times.
The student is being held without bail in a Bellevue Hospital prison ward and will appear again in court on Sept. 22.