Fundraiser Set Up For Victim In Hoboken Park Attack

HOBOKEN, NJ — A woman has set up a fundraiser for her nanny, who she says was a victim in an attack in Church Square Park in Hoboken on Thursday. READ MORE: Man Arrested In Attack On 2 At Hoboken Park

"[She] was rushed to the nearby Hoboken hospital and is thankfully in recovery now," wrote the woman. "I am absolutely horrified that this happened to her and in a park that so many of us frequent."

The city of Hoboken has set up a public forum for this coming Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. to discuss residents' concerns, in light of the attack.

As previously reported by Hoboken Patch, police were called to Church Square Park, in the center of town, around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Witnesses told police that a man — later identified as Troy Timberlake, 31 — was "yelling and cursing at children and elderly people, and then began hitting people."

Police determined that Timberlake was cursing at people who walked by the gazebo in the center of the park, "including one woman who he also spit on." When she turned to address him, "he punched her and then followed her out of the park and punched her multiple times, knocking her unconscious," a police spokesperson said.

Timberlake then approached a man and hit him on the back of his head, near one of the playgrounds in the park, police said.

Timberlake was charged with aggravated assault, endangering an injured victim, child cruelty, and refusal to submit fingerprinting, police said. READ MORE: Man Arrested In Attack On 2 At Hoboken Park

The fundraiser for the nanny is here.