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Brutal Attack On Food Deliveryman Caught On Tape In Morningside Heights

5 Days Later, NYPD Arrests 2 Of The Teen Suspects

April 27, 2011 10:00 PM
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Surveillance footage of deliveryman attack (credit: CBS 2)

Surveillance footage of deliveryman attack (credit: CBS 2)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A shocking, ambush-style attack on a food deliveryman was caught on tape in Morningside Heights. Police arrested two teen suspects on Wednesday.

Police released video of the encounter, which happened last Friday.

The set-up was simple: police said three teenage boys phoned in a Chinese food order. They went up to the sixth floor of the building at 40 Morningside Ave., hid in a stairwell next to the elevator, and waited for the deliveryman.

As soon as the deliveryman came out of the elevator, the lurking teens attacked. The deliveryman was knocked to the ground as the kids punched and kicked him repeatedly, reports CBS 2′s Jay Dow.

The boys tried,  but failed, to steal cash from his pocket.

As the teens fled, one picked up the food and threw it at the victim.

ambushsuspects Brutal Attack On Food Deliveryman Caught On Tape In Morningside Heights

The suspects in a brutal attack on a food delivery man in Morningside Heights. (credit: NYPD/CBS 2)

Surveillance camerasmanaged to get clear shots of the faces of the suspects and on Wednesday two arrests were made.

The suspects were wearing jackets and hooded sweatshirts. According to police, all were between 15 and 19 years old.

Resident Bob Deming said he lived in the building for decades, and added he was shocked to hear about the attack.

“I’m ashamed as a citizen. People thought they could get away with it,” he said.

If caught, what would the appropriate punishment be for the teen suspects? Sound off in our comments section.



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  • Doug Rose

    Welcome to “Obama’s Amerika” !

    • Ricki

      …the exit is this way, Doug…don’t let the door hit you in the fanny on your way out.

    • REGULATER

      YEPP DOUG, THE ROOF OF THE BLDG IS JUST OVER THERE, YOU DON’T MIND EXITING FROM THE ROOD DO YA DOUG?

  • TXBubba

    Forget the American justice system which will let them lawyer up and negotiate a plea……….Neighborhood vigilanties should catch the perps, cut their thmbs off and put a lead slug in their kee caps.

  • norman

    Funny that since they were black we don’t hear hate crime

  • Pete

    He forgot the soy sauce, what did you expect them to do….

    • tom

      Your attempt at humor on such a somber brutal attack is totally uncalled for, unsolicited, and just crass. Sardonism is flaccid….

      • dico j.

        Maybe so, but it’s still funny.

      • Nunya Business

        I laughed. Seriously, I know what happened was terrible, but if you guys would lighten up a little you might just improve your quality of living.

  • lastmanonthewall

    Maximum incarceration. Keep these animals locked up. Set them free and eventually they’ll kill someone.

    • FYI…

      …I have some really nasty gas right now.

  • Moose

    Hate crime and animalistic behavior .
    5 to 10 years hard labor and upon released , allow all 3 defendants come into a room of victims , chinesse victims .

    • Jerry

      Let the victim chose the punishment !

  • juspasenthru

    They should receive harsh words of disapproval.

  • javajim

    Castrate those punks, anybody that low on the gene pool should never be permitted to breed.

  • Incensed again

    North American ground apes just being themselves. Nothing new here.

    • REGULATOR

      YOU MUST PALEMAN.

    • lonfas

      “North American ground apes”

      I like that, Incensed again.

  • jczaryap

    Brutal Food Delivery Man? You mean Brutal Attack. Sheesh. Even a high school student would know how to write that headline.

    Anyway, those punks should be kicked and punched all the way to jail.

  • Steve

    20-25 years in prison for planning the attack, nothing less.

  • Bell Toller

    The Chinese Rest is also at fault for having his employee make a delivery in a apartment building in a seedy area.

    • Someone wtih intelligence

      Bell you are an idiot. Never speak again.

      • Bell Toller

        Someone wtih intelligence you are the idiot.

      • Deb

        ….c’mon…bell can’t help it…all that ringing in his ears all the time

    • Troy

      Ya, and your familiy is guilty of your ignorance because you were born. Let’s not hold the people who did this accountable, put the blame on the victim. It was his mothers fault for letting him be born also.

    • Abe

      wow, really? i’m sure that chinese restaurant, any many other restaurants, have made deliveries to that building before without incident. you can’t run a competitive restaurant by avoiding all “seedy” areas because you won’t have any business..

    • Imagine That???

      And if you do that, you’ll be boycotted by the Jesse Jackson’s for being a racist and denying people of their right to … uhhh… Chinese food!

    • Celtic Warrior

      no … its you that are the idiot. You are the enabler in society. GO BACK TO AFRICA and kill all you want….hell go to Jamaica they have the highest murder rate in the world, i think youd and your kind be right at home there. If you you are tired of being treated like a savage then you dont act like one. Works for all the other races…but some how it never seems to sink into those thick black heads of yours. When the race war begins you can thank losers such as yourself …./sick

      • Nunya Business

        When the race war begins we can blame idiots like you, who can’t get their mind off of the race of the individuals in question. Seriously, what’s the evidence? videos online, statistics that keep changing? This is rediculous. I don’t think anyone who endorses any kind of serious racism has any empathy for any of the people that will suffer because of it, black, white, asian, hispanic… A lot of good people will die, but go on, keep stuffing yourself full of pride, blind to the consequences just ahead, I sure hope there is a God as some people say, so he can judge all the sorry @sses I’ve read crud from today.

      • Way cup

        Celt,

        ‘snot a race thing, never was…it’s a stupidity thang: white yellow puerto rican haitian all can/do sh!t like this.

  • HooDatIS?

    this guy needs to be given a letha injection
    he has to be some kind of nasty drug addict
    what a looser
    visit my blog
    http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/mcdonalds-beatdown-in-baltimore/

  • R. Elisophen

    Send them to fight the Taliban ,they will run away scared having
    to fight in a real war. These are stupid punks and wimps and es they
    breed .Poor messenger ,I hope his life gets better and down the road he
    does not get brain disease for getting kicked as he did.

  • capitan America

    I think Bob was just having a bit of fun. Unfourtunatley that is how our society thinks. Thugs as victims.

  • angry NYer

    what?? now u were now shocked they were minorities?? HA HA HA..

  • Florin

    what about keeping them under surveilance 247, and forced to pay for this surveilance? also, limited rights would be right for those who have no respect for others.

  • Wolf

    Punish the perps and punish the parents. Parents need to start taking responsibility for their children. And if they are here illegally… deport all of them, parents included. Bring back Charles Bronson and the crime rates in the city will drop.

    • Tom

      Spot ON; a cable station is just airing an entire week of Death Wish series; I concur, bring back Charles Bronson!

  • Journalism grad

    Learn how to write a headline please! The food delivery man was not brutal — the attack was!

  • Superman

    Remember Mayor Bloomberg said the City is safe.

    • midi-man

      Totally agree crime is down that is because Bloomberg is reading the Bahama news not the NY News. He is a real idiot. He is really letting everything that Rudy did go to pot. Sorry ass Mayor in the same league as Koch.

  • Bob Fowler

    Please stop referring to the young men as stupid monkeys, POS, and jerks. They have feelings you know. And most assuredly, upon apprehension, they will be entitled to damages of $50 million each, for having to endure the embarrassment of being shown on television without their consent.

    Please, please, please…someone needs to make this a racially motivated incident, where the NYPD is wrong for their treatment of minorities. I trust that at least one poster will find a way to make this not the responsibility of these thugs.

    • elliott

      oh for the love of all things cruel. these kids ARE STUPID MONKEYS. doesn’t matter what the heck color they are! white purple red yellow green orange who cares! i find it hideous that you are siding with these idiots! what does the nypd have to do with the choices these boys made by making a phony call and attacking a chinese man? i’d venture to say it IS a racially motivated incident: black boys against helpless chinese man. get with the program bob fowler. you are probably one of those people who thought the 2 black 19 year olds who raped and tortured and murdered those victims in the 1972 ogden utah hi-fi store incident. the naacp thought they should not receive the death penalty because they were black. doesn’t matter how guilty they were, apparently. i’m glad they got what they deserved. and i am NOT a proponent of the death penalty, either. rethink your thoughts here, sir. those boys on the surveillance need to be dealt with.

    • nick

      How is a racially motivated incident and why should they not be responsible? Are you insane?
      Have them beaten in the same way and then forced to go to labor camp to work off
      their punishment, sent to China to work as houseboys for the family of this poor
      Chinese delivery man..
      And someone get Bob Fowler into treatment.

    • Florin

      Lol, i laughed when i seen your comment and i laughed harder when i seen others reply to it. Are so many americans this dumb, so they don’t sense irony?

      • Hey Florin

        at least some Americans use the correct tense of the verb see.

    • Bob Fowler

      Some people just don’t get sarcasm. Have you ever read any comments here before? Everything is the NYPD’s fault, and blacks don’t commit crimes unless set up by whites.

      I am waiting for the truly inspired to look at the video, and still make an excuse for why these thugs don’t belong in jail for a long time. By the way, thanks Rory for your warm thoughts.

      • Imagine That???

        You aren’t crazy, Bob. I was kind of wondering when I read the comments on your comments. I didn’t have any trouble seeing the sarcasm.

      • TOM SERVO

        Wow, I’m speechless. How could you be so inconsiderate? People don’t have no brain no more, Bob. How could you do this? Think of the children! For God’s sake, picture the children! How could you possibly say something smart that we don’t get because our programming dictates a polar reaction to everything our sense encounter?

    • Hoss

      Poor guys. I’m sure they come from repressed families, and were driven to this vicious attack by the Tea Party. In fact, it’s probably Sarah Palin’s fault.

    • Kathy

      Clearly, you missed Mr. Fowler’s snarky sarcasm.
      Did you really think he was serious? Read it again.

    • LoLoSoetoro

      F’ing monkeys.

  • Sebastian Carter

    Just kill them and get it over with. They have forfeited their rights as humans. Do it before they actually kill an innocent person. Now all food delivery persons will fear for their safety.

  • PIKE BISHOP JR.

    3 against one..we wish that they attacked a man like jet li..the 3 stupid monkeys would have gotten what they deserved…. the .cowards..

  • Bell Toller

    Chinese food delivery drivers need to carry mace or even a gun to protect themselves and the fight back against these jerks.

  • KPMc

    Yes… let’s release the video to the rest of the city that was nowhere near the attack while the residents that live there close their doors and claim they saw or heard nothing.

    No one in this building recognizes these POS? Guess they were all too busy working hard at their legitimate jobs and raising decent children.

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