Police ID Man Who Attacked Children In Yorktown Park

YORKTOWN, NY — A 19-year-old Yonkers man was arrested after being accused of attacking two children in Downing Park in Yorktown.

Shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Yorktown Police Department sent officers to the park for a report of a man who assaulted children.

On arrival, police met with the victims and their mother who said that the man had approached the children in the playground and grabbed one child’s hood and pulled on it which obstructed his breathing.

The man then went over to the second child, picking him up by his hood and swinging him around before dropping him to the ground, police said. The child suffered a scratch and redness to his head and eye.

Authorities said the man then went back to the first child and pushed him to the ground before kicking him in the stomach and running off into the wooded area.

A physical description of the attacker was obtained by police from eyewitnesses and broadcast.

Officers when into the woods and found the man, who was identified as Tyreek Lewis, 19, of Yonkers.

He was taken to Yorktown Police Headquarters for processing.

Lewis was charged with two counts of second-degree assault, felonies, and criminal obstruction of breathing and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, misdemeanors.

He was arraigned, but because he was unable to post bail, he was sent to the Westchester County Jail.

Lewis is scheduled to appear in Yorktown Justice Court April 11.