The suspect wanted in connection with a vicious, unprovoked elder assault days before Thanksgiving has been arrested and indicted. His name is Xavier Winston, 34, of the Bronx.
Though the original incident wasn’t the type that gets much press attention, it was the type of quotidian horror that could befall any of us at any time: to be randomly attacked on a neighboorhood street most people consider safe.
NYPD took the case seriously, however, and issued a Crime Stoppers notice about the attack, asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the then-unknown individual wanted in connection with an assault that occurred within the confines of the 19th Precinct. Details were as follows:…