Callous assailant busted for knocking out NYC woman, 81, in sucker-punch attack

A callous attacker was busted Thursday for knocking out an 81-year-old woman in a random sucker-punch assault on the Upper West Side last month, cops said.

Hansel Esparragoza, 37 – a Staten Island resident with 21 prior arrests – was charged with felony assault in the Sept. 13 caught-on-video attack on Geula Freeman at West 66th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, authorities said.

Esparragoza sported scruffy facial hair and was wearing a light green T-shirt, black sweat pants and rubber slide-on shoes when detectives led the handcuffed suspect out of the front door of the 20th Precinct and into a waiting cop car Thursday.

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Hansel Esparragoza, 37 – a Staten Island resident with 21 prior arrests – was charged with felony assault in the attack of an 81-year-old Upper West Side woman, cops said. James Keivom
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Esparragoza said nothing when reporters peppered him with questions about the attack. James Keivom

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