Chinatown assault victim was a gang member with a long history of criminal activity

The victim of a Jan. 22 mass assault on a Chinatown street was a gang member who had been arrested dozens of times. Pictured is the arrest of a gang member in New York State in 2018.

The victim of a mass assault in Chinatown last Friday (Jan. 22) and was stripped naked turned out to be a gang member himself who had been arrested 43 times and served three years in prison, the New York Police Department revealed.

According to the New York Post, which cites inside police sources, the 26-year-old victim of the Brooklyn gang assault was a member of the Mac Baller Brims gang in New York City. He was just released in 2017 after serving three years in upstate New York’s Fishkill prison after being charged with 17 felony counts in 43 arrests.

The man had just returned from Atlanta on the 22nd when he was assaulted by a group of a dozen men. The men were waiting specifically in Chinatown for him to get off the bus and had been waiting for hours before he arrived. They beat him up at an intersection on Kenney Road, robbed him of his cell phone, stripped him of his clothes and underwear, and finally escaped naked and asking for help. The man was seriously injured but not in fear of his Life and is currently being treated at a local hospital.

The case is still under investigation and so far no one has been arrested.

Video of the Jan. 22 assault in Chinatown.