Black man killed in racist attack, police say

NEW YORK - A white U.S. Army veteran from Baltimore bent on making a racist attack took a bus to New York, randomly picked out a black man who was collecting bottles on the street and killed him with a sword, police said Wednesday.

James Harris Jackson, 28, turned himself in at a Times Square police station early Wednesday, about 25 hours after Timothy Caughman, 66, staggered into a police precinct bleeding to death.

“I’m the person that you’re looking for,” Jackson told police, according to Assistant Chief William Aubrey.

Jackson, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, told police he’d harbored feelings of hatred toward black men for at least 10 years, authorities said. Jackson stabbed Caughman repeatedly in his chest and back with a 26-inch sword, they said.