08/28/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/28/2024 13:33
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Man Arraigned on Indictment Charging Him with Six Separate Assaults,
Mostly Against Senior Citizens, in Less Than a Month
Defendant Allegedly Approached Victims from Behind, Knocked them to the Ground
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that a 29-year-old man has been indicted on numerous charges of assault and other counts for allegedly attacking six individuals, mostly senior citizens, in separate attacks in Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Coney Island.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, "The outrageousness of this defendant's disturbing attacks on vulnerable seniors cannot be overstated, and our prosecutors will work diligently to ensure that he can no longer endanger our neighbors. This kind of random violence can terrorize a community, and it will never be tolerated in Brooklyn."
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Mouhamed Diallo, 29. The defendant was arraigned today before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Herbert Moses on a 15-count indictment in which he is variously charged with second- and third-degree assault, fourth-degree grand larceny, second- and third-degree robbery, and petit larceny. His bail was continued at $100,000 cash or $300,000 bond and, after being deemed unfit to proceed, the defendant was remanded into treatment until he's found fit.
The District Attorney said that, according to the investigation, between April 28, 2024 and May 21, 2024, the defendant allegedly assaulted five women and one man. Five of the people assaulted were senior citizens.
The incidents charged in the indictment include the following:
The District Attorney said that all the incidents were allegedly caught on surveillance video. The defendant was arrested on May 23, 2024.
The case is being prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Natalie Riether, of the District Attorney's Blue Zone Trial Bureau, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Kin Ng, Bureau Chief.
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An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant's guilt.