New York Daily News

BY SHANE DIXON KAVANAUGH , EDGAR SANDOVAL AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013

A heinous beatdown in the heart of Greenwich Village has left a Massachusetts man fighting for his life.

Kevin McCarron, 24, was bashed with a tire iron, baseball bat and blackjack and stomped repeatedly by a gang of toughs in the middle of MacDougal St. early Sunday, police and witnesses said.

Cops on Monday busted Hatem Farsakh, 24, and Sherif Rizk, 22 of Brooklyn, who was arraigned on charges of attempted murder and assault.

A screen grab from video footage of a beating in the Village that sent a Massachusetts man to the hospital.


Onlookers were horrified by the savage attack. “I started screaming for someone to call the police,” said a 25-year-old woman who captured the incident on video. “It was hard to watch.”

The violent rumble erupted after McCarron, from Andover, Mass., and his friends argued with their attackers while leaving Artichoke Pizza around 5:15 a.m.

One of the attackers may have been sitting on top of the car McCarron and his friends drove into the city, prompting a booze-fueled altercation between posses, a police source said.

McCarron’s assailants ran to the trunk of a black car and returned with the motley array of weapons, sources and witnesses said. That’s when all hell broke loose. At least seven men descended on McCarron, beating him unconscious and fracturing his skull, witnesses and court papers allege.

“They used a bat and a tire iron,” said a bouncer at a nearby bar.

“I’ve been doing this job for a few years now and I have never seen such a brutal fight,” said another bouncer.

McCarron was rushed to Weill Cornell Medical Center. A relative, Patrick McCarron, also suffered minor injuries.

The video may be viewed at the following link: http://pix11.com/2013/01/16/savage-gr ... kull/#QWOm9302luWP1mPb.99