A homeless man was held on $8,000 bail for allegedly sucker-punching a 94-year-old former physician outdoors an Higher East Aspect Apple retailer.
Lewis Reynolds was arrested Friday, three days after he's believed to have slugged the oldtimer within the face, inflicting the sufferer to fall inside the shop on Madison Avenue close to East 74th Road, authorities mentioned.
Reynolds, 31, who has no recognized tackle, pleaded not responsible to second- and third-degree assault throughout his in a single day arraignment in Manhattan Prison Court docket early Saturday.
A matted Reynolds, clad in a black t-shirt and gray sweatpants, anxiously rocked forwards and backwards as his Authorized Assist Society legal professional claimed the accused assaulter leads “a law-abiding life,” full with gigs in DoorDash supply, residence enchancment and building work.
The lawyer insisted Reynolds has “a secure residence,” however admitted the alleged scofflaw has by no means even been to the Queens homeless shelter that was listed for him.
In the end, Choose Valentina Morales set bail after figuring out Reynolds' “restricted ties” to the Huge Apple and household connections in California made him “considerably of a flight threat.”
The sufferer recalled the “traumatic” expertise throughout an unique interview with The Put up Thursday, and mentioned he fears “this may occasionally occur once more to me or anyone else.”
The person, who solely gave the identify Moshe, had simply bought a brand new Apple watch when the menace – who had already began hassle with different prospects earlier than turning on the nonagenarian – blindsided him in a vestibule.
“We have been in [the store] for a very long time, after which we went to go away and…there was some ruckus occurring. Any individual was doing one thing to anyone else,” he mentioned.
Moshe and his 78-year-old girlfriend, Evelia, have been standing and ready for the state of affairs to de-escalate when the brute got here out of nowhere and socked the retired internist.
“[Evelia] instantly ran after him, and within the meantime, I used to be falling,” he recalled.
Moshe refused medical consideration on the scene, however was left with a nasty bruise beneath his left cheekbone – and lasting trauma.
“Subconsciously, I'm nonetheless dwelling the expertise as a result of it was traumatic, and discovering myself unable to react the way in which that I might have preferred to … is form of miserable.
“[Hopefully] in days and weeks I'll get better utterly, however I'm nonetheless beneath that feeling of insecurity, that perhaps if I walked on the road, this may occasionally occur once more to me or to anyone else,” Moshe mentioned.
