Tammel Esco is a suspect being charged with attempted murder.
A woman from the Philippines is recovering from a vicious anti-Asian attack by Tammel Esco on her in Yonkers.
Wendy Trinidad reacted with horror to surveillance video of the hate crime committed in the lobby of her building by Tammel Esco.
“I’m in shock. I know nowadays a lot of mental issues, but that is just unbelievable,” Wendy Trinidad said.
It’s hard to watch the video of 42-year-old Tammel Esco assaulting his 67-year-old neighbor. Tammel Esco threw 125 punches and seven vicious kicks, then twice spit on the woman and used anti-Asian slurs.
The victim is well liked by neighbors.
“She’s very, very nice … Two daughters … Her husband passed. He was a mailman, I remember that,” neighbor Sken Shabaj said.
“We’re gonna file this as a hate crime, and we’re charging attempted murder based on the number of strikes and the length of the attack,” Yonkers Police Commissioner John Mueller said.
Tammel Esco has a criminal record which includes 14 arrests and multiple convictions, Mueller said.
In Feb. 2021, Tammel Esco pushed a woman through a plate glass window. She was not seriously hurt, but Esco was given conditional discharge and no jail time.
