According to The Post, a New York model claims a vicious heist outside a luxury Manhattan lounge left him with a shattered jaw and missing teeth. He is now preparing to sue the nightclub, claiming its security did nothing to stop the attack.
Adam Byrd, 33, had just left the East Village’s Little Sister Lounge with a friend on March 16 when a group of guys punched, stomped, and beat him with a belt before stealing his $35,000 necklace, according to Byrd and police.
However, Byrd claimed that despite being only a few steps away during the beating, the bar’s bouncers declined to aid.
“Security is three feet away from this situation, and I watched this happen with the belt and stomping on the face,” Byrd told The Post Thursday.
According to his attorney, Anthony C. Sears, the model and actor plans to sue the security guards and Tao Group Hospitality, which runs Little Sister Lounge, for negligence.
According to Byrd, he was walking out of the lounge, which is located on East 11th Street near Fourth Avenue, when the attackers appeared out of nowhere and jumped his friend.
“I see my friend literally within four seconds of walking out of the venue; he gets sucker punched by one guy and then sucker punched by another guy,” Byrd said in a telephone interview.
One of the thugs allegedly ripped off his friend’s Rolex before turning on Byrd and beating him.
“My back is turned.” “I hear footsteps running up to me, and the next thing I know, I wake up to a stomp,” Byrd said, adding that the brutes pushed him down and elbowed his torso.
The attackers then took out a belt.
“They were hitting me in the face with belts.” “They were beating me while I was unconscious for over a minute,” Byrd stated.
“They were trying to rip the chain off my neck, but it wouldn’t come off,” he explained of his 22-inch Cuban white gold diamond-encrusted necklace. “They were stomping my face into the pavement.”
He claimed he was pleading with the bouncers to do something.
“I’m literally begging for help,” he explained. “I’m asking, ‘Please, can somebody call the cops?”
According to Byrd, after his attackers fled, he eventually went into the street and stopped a police officer.
EMS transported him to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, according to police.
Byrd stayed in the hospital for many days, undergoing emergency surgery on the inside of his jaw and receiving wires for his mouth.
“I am unable to feel the outside of my jaw from my chin to the back side.” “They had to mend one of my nerves,” he explained, adding that he will require at least six months to recover.
Byrd claims a detective told him he was a target, and since then, he has developed paranoia.
“I never would have imagined that they would have seen me getting stomped in the face and not only not help but ensure I didn’t get any assistance,” he added of the police officers.
Sears, of personal injury company Shulman & Hill, described it as one of “the most heinous cases of negligent security” he has ever seen.
“This case highlights a disturbing reality: the negligence of’security guards’ to take any measure, at all, to protect club patrons,” he said.
The Tao Group did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Police stated the suspected offenders are still at large.
An 87-year-old Brooklyn grandmother who was run over by her own automobile on Wednesday had been praying in the vehicle in her driveway for 20 minutes before the fatal accident, according to her distraught son.
Joan Behan, a grandmother of ten and a devoted Christian, had just arrived home from a two-hour workout and exited her blue 2013 Toyota Corolla after finishing her customary prayers, according to her son.
But catastrophe happened as she was walking behind her car, which she had never put into a park.
Police said the automobile went backward and crushed her outside her Gravesend house on West 10th Street at 3 p.m.
Behan sustained significant head and torso trauma and was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, but she could not be rescued.
The octogenarian was highly active, healthy, and sharp, going to the gym several times a week, according to her 60-year-old son.
“Before the accident yesterday, she just came home from a two-hour workout,” David Behan, her husband, told reporters.
“She remained in the car in her driveway for about 20 minutes to pray.” “She always did that.”
“Then she wanted to get out of her car when the accident happened, and she died.”
Her son stated that she worked as a teacher’s aide when she was younger and had four children, ten grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
“She made everybody’s life always very happy, no matter who she spoke to,” he went on to say.
“She had a positive attitude about everything. “Everyone loved her.”
