Man attacked in bed in NYC Randalls Island migrant shelter, 5 arrested
NEW YORK — Five men were busted for assaulting a man at the troubled migrant shelter on Randalls Island early Monday, police said.
The 24-year-old victim was sitting in bed eating when he was repeatedly punched by the men about 1:45 a.m., cops said.
The victim suffered cuts on his leg and bruises to his head and face. The FDNY said two people were taken to Metropolitan Hospital. No information on their condition was immediately available.
Cops charged Howard Ochoa Olivero, 27, Jose Manuel Maza, 29, Jose Squera, 20, Xavier Pacheco, 32, and Carlos Maiz Betancourt, 23, with misdemeanor assault and harassment.
The shelter can hold up to 2,000 migrants.
Last month, migrants surrounded about five uniformed officers and threw bottles and debris at them as the cops tried to apprehend a disorderly man inside the shelter, video shows.
In January, a security guard at the shelter stabbed a 24-year-old man in the neck. Medics rushed the victim to Harlem Hospital, where he was expected to recover.
And migrant Dafren Alexis Canizales Ceballo, 24, was on line for food at the relief center’s dining tent when 27-year-old Moises Coronado stabbed him around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 6, police said. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital with a stab wound to the torso but he could not be saved.
Police later arrested three suspects in the fatal stabbing.
