Overview

• Prosecutors say Timur Mamatov, 20, and a companion asked a group of Ohio State students if they were Jewish, then he struck one student after they said yes outside a Columbus bar on Nov. 10, 2023.
• One victim sustained a fractured jaw and another suffered a broken nose during the fight, according to the Justice Department.
• In entering his plea, Mamatov admitted he targeted the students because they were Jewish, the U.S. attorney said.
• The case was charged on July 3 under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and sentencing is pending with a statutory maximum of 10 years.
• FBI data released this month recorded 1,938 antisemitic hate crimes in 2024, the largest total in more than 30 years of the agency’s tracking.