Two NYCHA workers busted in NYC beatdown of former Gov. David Paterson, stepson: cops
Two adult public housing workers were nabbed Monday in the Upper East Side beatdown on former Gov. David Paterson and his stepson – the 🐈final suspects busted after two 𒁃boys, 12 and 13, surrendered over the weekend, cops said.
Travor Nurse, 40, who is accused of slugging Paterson, and Diamond Minter, 34 – both of who꧑m work for the New York City Housing Authority – were apprehended in the Friday night attack on the pair on Second Avenue near East 96th Street, cops and sources said.
Both suspects were charged with se♑cond-degree gang assault, and Tr﷽avor faces an additional rap for assault injuring a victim 65 or older, both felonies, cops said.
Two boys – a 12-year-old who faces a second-degree gang assault rap and a 13-year-old charged with third-degree gang assault – turned themselves in on Saturday, cops said.
A third boy, 14, was not charged after cops determine🥂d he was not an aggressor.
“Governor Paterson and his family are glad to see the suspects turned themselves in,” a rep for the ex-gov said in a statement said afte🍬r those arrests. “We hope that the young people involved learn something from this unfortunate encounter.
The attack unfolded when Paterson, 70, a💙nd his wife’s 20-year-old son, Anthony Chester Sliwa, spotted the crew climbing a fire escape shortly before 9 p.m., sources said at the time.
The pair confronted the ruffians, who then aꦅttacked them, the sources said.
The group of suspects “had a previous interaction with [Paterson’s] stepson,” ac𝓰cording to Paterson’s spokesperson Sean ✨Darcy.
The ex-governor, who is legally blind, sustꦓained a head injury, while Sliwa suffered a face wound and took the brunt of the attack, sources said.
They were ✤both taken to NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center “as a pre๊caution,” Darcy said.
Paterson, who served as New York’s governor from 2008 to 2010, , the ex-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa♒.
Sliwa and his ex-wife Mary share ꧟one child, Anthony.
Traꦆvor was previously busted in Brooklyn in late July on an aggravated unlicensed operator charge, in addition to other traffic violations, sources said.
Back in August 2009, he was arrested for gun possess🔯ion♐, according to the sources.
It was not immediately known whether Minter had previous arrests on her r♛ecord.
NYCHA confirmed the twoꦇ accused were still employe𒐪d.
“They have not reported to work,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “This is an active NYPD investigation. We don’t have any additional information at this time.”
