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YONKERS, N.Y. -- A woman from the Philippines is recovering from a vicious anti-Asian attack in Yonkers. The suspect is charged with attempted murder as a hate crime and has a long criminal history, CBS2's Tony Aiello reported Monday. Wendy Trinidad reacted with horror to surveillance video of the hate crime committed in the lobby of her building. "I'm in shock. I know nowadays a lot of mental issues, but that is just unbelievable," Trinidad said. It's hard to watch the video of 42-year-old Tammel Esco assaulting his 67-year-old neighbor. Esco threw 125 punches and seven vicious kicks, then twice...

(CNN) A New York woman was punched more than 125 times in the head and face and stomped on seven times by a man who had allegedly called her an "Asian b*tch," the Yonkers Police Department said in a news release Monday. The victim, a 67-year-old Asian woman, was returning home Friday evening when she saw the suspect, whom police identified as Tammel Esco, 42, in front of her building. Esco allegedly used the racial slur as she passed him, police said in the release. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of people in the US have been...

A black man has been charged with attempted murder as a hate crime after he was caught on video punching a 67-year-old Asian woman more than 125 times and stomping on her as she tried to get into her Yonkers apartment. Tammel Esco, 42, was arrested at the scene and taken to Westchester County Jail on Friday at around 6.15pm. Esco, who spent time in prison for assault and criminal sale of a controlled substance, allegedly yelled a racial slur at the woman when she walked by him on her way home. Surveillance footage shows the victim fiddling with her...