Brute, who was accused of killing his 44-year-old father with a random knockout punch while riding a bike in Brooklyn more than seven years ago, was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, police said.
Gary Anderson, 34, also took the attack on Bedford Stuyvesant, which ultimately took the life of Domingo D. Tapia in connection with the unprovoked attack on June 8, 2017. Relatedly, officers said he was charged with criminally negligent murder.
Tapia knocked him in the face at about 1:30am while on Fulton Street near the Kingston Tullop metro station when a bearded stranger knocked him on the ground, police said. .
Authorities say Tapia, the two married father, suffered severe head injuries and was taken to Kings County Hospital where she was placed in a medically induced coma.
Anderson was initially arrested a few weeks after the attack and charged with a misdemeanor, third-degree assault, according to officers and criminal charges.
According to a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, he pleaded guilty to a felony second-degree assault (felony) in 2019, and with the understanding that if the victim dies he will face additional charges, the victim said. He committed a crime a year later.
He was released on parole that expired in May 2022 in November 2023, state amended records show.
But then, Tapia had already spent nearly seven years in coma – died in March 2024, but urged Anderson's upgraded fees, officials said.
Anderson said nothing as detectives escorted him from the 81st pm precinct on Wednesday, and escorted him into an unmarked police car, but was greeted by cheers and jealousy from a group of schools he had seen before. I did.
Anderson, who has been arrested at least five times, was awaiting arrest Wednesday evening with a new charge, police said.
The meaningless attack came ten days before Father's Day, and Tapia's wife, Esther Diaz, struggles to tell her father what happened to her husband and sons, who were then five and seven years old. did.
“I don't know how to tell the kids,” Diaz told the Post via Sobs. “Father's Day is this weekend and their dad is not at home. I don't know what I'm going to do.”
Tapia arrived in the United States from Mexico 18 years before the attack and worked at a fruit stand on Church Street.
He was the only profiter in the family while he watched after the children throughout the summer, she said.
“What I want is that person handed him over himself — anyone… and pay for what he did, because now my child needs a dad.”
The brave attacks came to the height of what is called “knockout games” (the so-called “knockout games” intended to make strangers unconscious in the way of cities and countries as a whole.
