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This still image from video shows Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, N.J., at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, center right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12. Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by Matar who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles south of Buffalo.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blood stains mark a screen as author Salman Rushdie, behind screen, is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y.ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this still image from video, author Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter for transport to a hospital after he was attacked during a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12.CHARLES FOX VIA AP
Law enforcement officers detain Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, N.J., outside the Chautauqua Institution, Friday, Aug. 12, in Chautauqua, N.Y.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A person makes a call outside the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An officer with the Chautauqua Sheriff's Department speaks to a person at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An officer stands outside a gate of the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Law enforcement stand watch outside at the Chautauqua Institution after author Salman Rushdie was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, in Chautauqua, N.Y.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Author Salman Rushdie appears during the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss., in 2018.