two adults was arrested on monday The final suspects were uncovered after two boys, ages 12 and 13, surrendered in the attack on former Gov. David Paterson and his stepson on the Upper East Side, police sources said.
Trevor Nurse, 40, who is accused of killing Patterson, and a 34-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld pending charges, were charged Friday after the pair were shot on Second Avenue near East 96th Street, sources said. Was caught in the attack that took place on the night of.
The two boys – a 12-year-old charged with second-degree gang assault and a 13-year-old charged with third-degree gang assault – turned myself in on Saturday, police said.
A third boy, 14, was not charged because police determined he was not the attacker.
“Governor Patterson and his family are pleased to see the suspects plead guilty,” a representative for the former governor said in a statement after those arrests. “We hope the young people involved learn something from this unfortunate encounter.
Sources said the attack occurred when 70-year-old Patterson and his wife’s 20-year-old son, Anthony Chester Sliwa, saw the crew climbing a fire escape just before 9 p.m.
Sources said the pair confronted the miscreants, who then attacked them.
According to Patterson’s spokesman Sean Darcy, the group of suspects “had previous interactions with (Patterson’s) stepson.”
The former governor, who is legally blind, suffered head injuries, while Sliwa suffered facial injuries and bore the brunt of the attack, sources said.
They were both taken to NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center “as a precaution,” Darcy said.
Paterson, who served as Governor of New York from 2008 to 2010, is married to Mary PattersonEx-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
Sliwa and his ex-wife Mary have one child, Anthony.
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