A Yonkers man has been charged with a hate crime within the brutal beating of a 67-year-old Asian-American lady — who was stomped and punched greater than 125 instances whereas being known as an “Asian bitch,” officers mentioned.
Tammel Esco, 42, was charged with assault and tried homicide within the horrific Friday night assault — with the whole assault caught on surveillance video.
“This is among the most appalling assaults I've ever seen,” Yonkers Police Commissioner John Mueller mentioned in an announcement. “To beat a helpless lady is despicable, and concentrating on her due to her race makes it extra so.”
Esco spewed the racial slur as the girl walked previous him exterior her Yonkers house constructing shortly after 6 p.m. Friday, cops mentioned.
He adopted the sufferer to the constructing’s entrance door and attacked her from behind, unleashing a brutal barrage of punches and stomping her seven instances.
The horrifying footage reveals the girl falling to the bottom, together with her attacker persevering with to repeatedly punch her after she’s down and cowering.
She suffered bleeding of the mind, facial fractures, and a number of lacerations to the pinnacle and face, Westchester County prosecutors mentioned in a launch.
She was listed in steady situation at an space hospital.
“Our hearts are damaged for the sufferer,” Westchester DA Mimi Roach mentioned in an announcement.
“We additionally perceive that many locally might expertise worry and trauma because of this incident,” Rocah mentioned. “We are going to proceed our work with our group and governments companions all through the county…..”
Esco was arrested after the assault and charged with second-degree assault and second-degree tried homicide on Saturday, prosecutors mentioned.
On Monday, he was hit with a brand new felony criticism elevating each fees to a hate crime, each violent felonies, the DA mentioned.
Esco is being held with out bail and is due again in court docket on March 25.
“Hate crimes are past insupportable in our metropolis,” Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano mentioned in an announcement. “I count on the suspect to be charged to the fullest extent of the regulation for his heinous ations. I proceed to maintain the sufferer and her household in our ideas and prayers.”
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