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Posted By richards on December 10, 2014

A member of the Chabad community walks through crime scene tape at the movement's headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Photo: AP

New York: A police officer has shot and killed a man inside the Brooklyn headquarters of the Chabad movement after the man stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli student and lunged at the officer with a knife, officials said.

Calvin Peters, 49, was killed by one shot from the handgun of a police officer after he entered the Crown Heights synagogue and attacked Levi Rosenblatt, 22, police said.

Mr Rosenblatt, who lives in Israel, was studying at about 1.40am inside the basement of the synagogue when Peters attacked him, police said. The synagogue is open 24 hours a day, according to spokesman Motti Seligson.

The Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn. The knife attack and subsequent fatal shooting took place in a basement room of the synagogue. Photo: AP

Mr Rosenblatt was listed in serious but stable condition late on Tuesday, New York mayor Bill de Blasio said. Peters was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, officials said.

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The attack unnerved many in a Crown Heights Hasidic community still on edge less than a month after two Palestinian cousins, armed with meat cleavers, knives and a handgun, killed four rabbis and a security guard inside a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers.

Witnesses said before he attacked Mr Rosenblatt, Peters made "anti-Jewish" remarks, said New York police Commissioner William Bratton, adding that the stabbing did not appear to be terrorism-related. A bystander filmed much of the three-minute confrontation between Peters and three officers.

Stabbing victim Levi Rosenblatt. Photo: Reuters

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Man who stabbed, wounded Israeli student in synagogue is killed by police

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