Police arrested and charged a man in connection with the brutal assault of a 90-year-old Manhattan candy store owner.
Luis Peroza, 39, was charged Friday night with assault in the attack right outside the store owner's shop.
The NYPD had released images of a person of interest wanted in connection with the attack. He was seen pushing a shopping cart down a sidewalk.. He said he was on the sidewalk in front of Ray's Candy Store around 3 a.m. when two men carrying cases of seltzer water walked up and tried to get him to buy them.
When he declined, Alvarez said one of the men threatened him and pulled out what appeared to be a belt with a rock attached to it and assaulted him in the face. He collapsed onto the ground and the men got away."I feel good," Alvarez said on Thursday afternoon, but admitted that he still can't chew food.Community rallies around candy shop owner set to turn 90
The East Village community is raising money to make sure the owner of a beloved candy store set to turn 90 can stay in business as long as he likes.when his shop was having financial problems. Ray's Candy Store has been in the neighborhood since 1974.Alvarez came from Iran in the 1960s and became a U.S. citizen.
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