An anti-white maniac who sucker-punched a TikTok influencer, assaulted two other women and berated a Jewish couple in a crazed spree of hate and violence will spend at least three years behind bars, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.
Skiboky Stora, 42, went on a bizarre, 15-minute rant in Manhattan Supreme Court — accusing prosecutors of using AI videos to frame him — before Justice Josh Hanshaft sentenced him to 3-to-9 years in prison for the string of assaults in 2023 and 2024.
“I just want to start off by saying I’m not an ignorant person, judge,” Stora, wearing a brown jail-issued jumpsuit, whined. “Actually, I’m registered right now to run for governor of New York and I’m the great great grandson of Marcus Garvey.
Stora was convicted of assault, hate crime, stalking and harassment charges in February, with jurors deliberating for just 30 minutes before finding him guilty.
“How can the court convict me of all hate crimes?” he ranted Tuesday, unleashing wild claims that, “It’s an AI video, artificial intelligence generated video…. The people are being framed throughout New York state.”
At trial, prosecutors showed a trove of Stora’s self-recorded videos where he could be seen shouting slurs against white people.
Stora, who has run long-shot races for city mayor represented himself, turning the four-week-long proceedings into a circus.
He was arrested two days after his most recent attack, the caught-on–camera March 25, 2024 unprovoked assault on bombshell influencer Halley McGookin, whose @halleykate.onilne account has 1.6 million followers.
McGookin was walking on West 17th Street near Seventh Avenue around 10:20 a.m. on her way to record a podcast when Stora came up and slugged her without warning, sending her crashing to the sidewalk.
She was so rattled she actually apologized to her attacker “because he was screaming something at me, using a lot of profanity, saying it was my fault.”
McGookin then went online and posted a video, praising New York for having “given me everything I’m grateful for,” and saying she believed her attack was an isolated incident.
“I am not hear to argue that New York City can be really scary at times, but I have lived here for six years, and I have not had anything even remotely similar happen,” she said.
Stora was linked to the other crimes after he was arrested for attacking the influencer.
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In addition to the attack on McGookin, Stora was charged with elbowing a 17-year-old student in Chelsea early on Sept. 20, 2023, elbowing another woman, 37, near West 17th Street and Eighth Avenue on Oct. 26, 2023, and harassing the Jewish couple in Union Square on Nov. 18, 2023, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said he screamed at the couple, “Die, Jew! Die.”
“Skiboky Stora engaged in a disturbing pattern of hate-fueled violence targeting and intimidating strangers, causing physical harm and lasting emotional trauma to these New Yorkers,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
“Stora’s attacks robbed them of their sense of safety and altered how they navigate daily life. Today’s sentence sends a clear message that this conduct is unacceptable and carries significant consequences.”
