Brooklyn, NY – A Staten Island man is under arrest in the early morning attack of a 62 year old Chasidic man as he walked down 13th Avenue on his to the synagogue this morning in Borough Park.

As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2yhyw0V), surveillance footage captured the vicious beating, sparking both fear and anger in Borough Park and prompting elected officials to call on the NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney’s office to take swift action.

Police said that they were called to the scene by a 911 call reporting the incident at the corner of 13th Avenue and 46th Street where they arrested 37 year old Farrukh Afzal, a driver with Church Avenue Car Service, and charged him with hate crime as an assault, criminal mischief and harassment.

Afzal was previously arrested three times this past year for aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, four times over the past three years for criminal contempt and for criminal mischief in March 2017.