According to police, 19-year-old Saul Nunez of the Bronx was taken into custody last night & charged with two counts of assault & one count of criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly striking a 90-year-old man in the head with a cane on Friday night.
Juan Llorens, 90, was pushing his cart down Broadway when a young man suddenly began to kick it around 6 p.m. Friday, police said. Surveillance video then shows the culprit taking his cane and hitting the helpless man in the head.
The 90-year-old man is a bottle collector known around the block where the attack happened according to CBS. Llorens told a reporter with the channel that the attack left him deaf in one ear, and that he had no idea who Nunez was before Nunez allegedly assaulted him.