Off-duty NYPD cop in serious condition after thug beats him while unconscious then targets terrified wife
Sgt. Mohammed Dean was assaulted outside a restaurant in Ozone Park, Queens, a witness told police. The attacked also tried to smash car windows where Deen's wife was cowering. Hayden Holder, 29, was arrested about a block away and charged with felony assault.
Comments (121)By Mark Morales , Tina Moore AND Ben Chapman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 3:14 PM
Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 4:42 AM
Graphic video shows who police think is Hayden Holder pummeling off-duty NYPD Sgt. Mohammed Deen who was lying unconscious in the street.
An off-duty NYPD sergeant was viciously beaten in a Queens street attack early Sunday while his wife watched helplessly from their car, police and witnesses said.
The fight outside St. John’s Express restaurant and bar on Liberty Ave. in Ozone Park left Sgt. Mohammed Deen, 40, in a medically induced coma Sunday night, cops said.
The attacker is then caught on video attempting to smash the window of Deen's car, where his terrified wife takes cover from violent thug.
A graphic cell phone video appears to show Deen taking a brutal thumping from Hayden Holder, 29, who was charged with felony assault in the 5 a.m. attack.
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In this still frame from a video, a man who is apparently an off-duty NYPD officer, is treated by EMS after being seriously injured in a fight on Liberty Ave. near Lefferts Blvd. on Sunday.
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO — SEE THE FIGHT
“That n---- dead,” said the man filming the video, which shows Deen lying unconscious in the street as a man believed to be Holder punches him repeatedly and smacks his head on the pavement.
Hayden Holder, 29, of Jamaica, was arrested and charged with felony assault in the beating of off-duty NYPD Sgt. Mohammed Dean outside an Ozone Park restaurant and bar.
The video clip, posted on Facebook, also shows the attacker attempting to punch out the windows of Deen’s BMW sedan after the initial assault while Deen’s wife cowered inside.
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"I saw the end of the fight," said Ken Lee, 53, who runs a shop at the corner of 118th St. and Liberty Ave. "The one man was lying in the street. The larger man was standing over him, punching him."
After the attacker fails to break the car window, he walks back to where Deen lies in the street and bashes the cop’s head into the pavement again.
The beaten cop’s mother, Khirol Deen, was still reeling from the horrific assault Sunday night. “All I know is that my son is lying down in the hospital,” she said. “How would you feel if your son was hit like that?”
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Investigators were focusing on the St. John's Express Bar & Restaurant.
“He’s a very good cop,” she said.
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The injured NYPD officer was transported to Jamaica Hospital and listed in serious but stable condition.
NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks III said Deen got into a dispute with Holder outside the restaurant just before the bloody attack.
The bad blood between the two men may have originated in an argument at Maracas nightclub about a mile away, sources said. Detectives interviewed staff there Sunday night.
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Scene on Liberty Ave. near Lefferts Blvd. on Sun., November 17, 2013, where an off-duty NYPD officer was seriously injured.
Witnesses said Holder tried to take off when police arrived at the scene of the attack, but cops nabbed him just a block away. Holder admitted that he assaulted Deen but said he didn’t know Deen was NYPD, police sources said.
EMTs rushed Deen, who works in Harlem’s 32nd Precinct, to Jamaica Hospital, where doctors put him into a medically induced coma. He was in stable condition.
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