New York Daily News

2 nabbed in attack on fellow homeless men

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA

Two of the five men wanted in a brutal beatdown of four homeless men during a robbery in Brooklyn are in custody — and are themselves homeless, police said.

The attack, captured on video, netted the suspects a total of $5 — and put one of the victims, 42, into a coma and on a ventilator at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.

Adolfo Romero, 25, picked up Saturday night for an unrelated transit robbery, and Jesus Guadalupe, 29, taken into custody in a quality-of-life offense, will be charged with the assault, NYPD Chief of Investigat­ions William Aubry said Monday.

A third suspect was identified by Aubry as Bacilio Zacharia, 33, and is still being sought. Zacharia is also homeless.

The other two suspects have not yet been identified.

Aubry said the other victims, ages 61, 51 and 41, are recovering from minor injuries.

A 2 ⁄ -minute video (inset) released by the NYPD shows the victims crowded together among garbage bags outside a garage on 60th St. near 10th Ave. in Borough Park on the morning of Feb. 23.

The five attackers, some with their faces covered, walk up to the men. At least two of the attackers then kick and stomp on the 42year-old before turning their attention to a second victim trying to hide a few feet away by covering himself with a sheet or blanket, the footage shows.

All of the suspects then kick and punch the cowering victim in the head before dragging him out from under the sheet and onto the middle of the sidewalk, where the unprovoked assault continues, the video shows.

The suspects swiped $5 from one of the victims before running off.

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