Attacker Who Beat Woman In LES Park Charged With Attempted Murder, Prosecutors Say

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — A man who punched and kicked a 61-year-old woman on the Lower East Side has been charged with attempted murder, prosecutors said.

Devin Brown was indicted Wednesday afternoon, several weeks after he knocked the woman unconscious near a neighborhood park, authorities said. He was arrested shortly after the assault, during which police say he attacked and tried to rob the woman as she walked down Forsyth Street on May 20.

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He is accused of punching the woman, knocking her to the ground, and then continuing to stomp on her head and kick her as she lay motionless as he searched through her purse, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said in a statement. Brown only stopped attacking the woman when another person approached, prosecutors said.

Brown, 24, was arrested in a nearby deli. The woman suffered bleeding in her brain and remains hospitalized, authorities said.

"Devin Brown is accused of brutally attacked a 61-year-old woman while she was walking alone on the Lower East Side, without any apparent provocation," Vance said in a statement.

"The details of this senseless attack are truly shocking – the defendant is accused of continuing to assault the victim as she lay motionless on the ground."

Brown was also charged with assault charge and attempted robbery.

Patch was not immediately able to contact Brown's attorney.

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