The NYPD has made an arrest in the Friday night attack against a Hasidic man in Williamsburg.

Sources tell YWN that suspect turned himself in at the precinct and was taken into custody on Tuesday.

The suspect has been identified as Enrique Gerena, 32, of Willoughby Ave in Brooklyn. He has 5 prior arrests.

He has been charged with a Hate Crime/Assault in the 3rd degree.

As reported on YWN, the victim was walking home from Shul with his young son and had stopped to talk to another man in the area of 68 Throop Avenue, when a man approached one of them from behind and punched the 33-year-old victim in the back of the head. Police say the suspect yelled a word that sounded like “BLAH”. The suspect then fled on foot southbound on Throop Avenue. The victim suffered minor injuries as a result of the attack.

The attack comes less than a week after a Hasidic child was attacked just a block away, breaking his nose as he was shoved to the ground. The suspect in that attack remains on the loose.

 

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WATCH: #Hasidic man sucker-punched in #Williamsburg. Community leader Jude Werzberger speaks with the media: . . “We start running after him, but, unfortunately, we grabbed him … we got him. … We caught him, but unfortunately no cop was there to get him,” Werzberger told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner. “I felt just like everybody else over here, that you have to be afraid on the streets and nobody cares.” . “You feel like you’re in a wilted country where people don’t like us,” Werzberger said.

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WATCH: Hasidic Jewish men are seen chasing after a thug who attacked a man on Friday night, punching him from behind as he stood on a street corner with his young son, talking to another man. The attack, on Throop and Wallabout, took place a block away from where a Hasidic child was attacked and shoved to ground last week, causing him to break his nose. Both suspects remain on the loose #Williamsburg #Brooklyn #newyorkcity #nyc #crime #hatecrime #jews #jewish #antisemitism #nypd

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(Charles Gross – YWN)