Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the attack on former New York Governor David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson while the two men were walking their dog in Manhattan on Friday night, authorities confirmed. Fox Information Digital Sunday morning.
Police identified the two teenagers as a 12-year-old male, charged with second-degree assault, and a 13-year-old male, charged with third-degree gang assault. Their names have not been released because they are minors.
Investigators were looking for five suspects they believe were involved in the attack on Paterson and his stepson, Anthony Chester Sliwa, just after 8:30pm on Friday in the Upper East Front.
Five unidentified men confronted Paterson and Sliwa and began a verbal altercation that police say escalated into a physical assault that left the former governor with head injuries and his stepfather with more serious injuries against him. Paterson and his stepson were treated at a local hospital.
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Paterson’s face and head were injured, and his stepson, who was 20, was injured in the face. Both were treated at a local hospital and later released. (AP Photo/Tim Roske, file)
Paterson, who is 70 years old and legally blind, to FreedomNews.TV On Saturday, his stepfather first encountered three of the teenagers when he saw them climb up a fire escapeon a neighborhood building and shouted that he would call the police if they did not come back down the street.
“They came down. He got stuck in one of them and that was the end of it,” Paterson said.
Pictured is a police van at the scene where authorities say Paterson and her stepson were attacked. (Pierre Gerber)
The former governor said he and his stepfather encountered the teenagers and their friends later on Second Avenue and an argument ensued.
Paterson said that while the teenagers were arguing with her son, two other adults intervened and started the fight that followed.
Police are placing evidence at the crime scene where Paterson and her grandson were attacked. (Pierre Gerber)
“The kids didn’t start the fight,” Paterson said. “They were arguing. Then, when the fight started, everyone started fighting. »
Paterson told reporters he was hit “several times in the face” and shoulder.
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“The person who hit me in the shoulder, I threw him against the McDonald’s window myself,” Paterson said.
Police have released descriptions of the five suspects and asked for the public’s help in identifying them.
The New York Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying five suspects in connection with the alleged attack. (NYPD, Peter Gerber)
The Democratic governor’s former spokesman, Sean Darcy, told Fox Information Digital that Paterson and his stepmother were released from the hospital early Saturday morning.
“The governor’s only request is that people stop trying to use unfortunate violence for their own personal or political gain,” Darcy said. “He and his wife, Mary, are grateful for the prompt response from the police and for the support they received from people from all walks of life.
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Paterson was governor of New York from 2008 to 2010. His wife is Mary Sliwa, who was the wife of Curtis Sliwa who founded Guardian Angels.
Fox Information Digital’s Landon Mion and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
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