He hit a man with a brick and a hammer to rob him on a street in this city
White Plains
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced this week that a Yonkers man was sentenced as a second violent offender to 15 years in state prison for attacking a man with a brick and hammer on a sidewalk in Yonkers before robbing him in March 2021.
Prosecutor Rocah said that “today’s lengthy prison sentence holds a violent offender accountable for his malicious attack on a victim, whose life has been permanently altered by this traumatic attack.”
After a nearly two-week trial, on February 3, 2023, a jury found Juan Rodríguez, 38, guilty of two counts of first degree robbery, first degree assault, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and battery in the second degree, all felonies. And he will be subject to five years of post-release supervision.
On March 1, 2021, at 3:43 p.m. m., defendant hid behind a tree and then approached the victim from behind and threw a brick at the back of the victim’s head as she was walking down the sidewalk on Riverdale Avenue in Yonkers, causing her to fall to the ground . The defendant then struck the victim in the face multiple times with a hammer, stole $30 from her hand, and fled the scene.
As detailed during the trial, surveillance video captured the defendant picking up the brick from behind the tree and removing the hammer from his waistband as he watched the victim, whom he knew, cross Riverdale Avenue before attacking him. The attack itself was also captured on surveillance video.
The victim was transported to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he underwent facial reconstruction surgery, received permanent plates and screws in his face, and a mesh net to support his eye. The victim underwent additional surgery to treat her injuries and she continues to experience nerve damage, numbness, headaches and has difficulty opening her mouth and eating.
The Yonkers Police Department arrested the defendant in Yonkers on April 14, 2021, following an investigation.
Posted on March 30, 2023
