An emergency medical worker was attacked in the Bronx in an encounter that was captured on video, News 12 New York reported in an exclusive. The footage shows the moments when, according to police, an EMS worker came under assault after a man threw a rock at an ambulance, turning a routine call into a violent confrontation on a city street.
The video lays out how the situation escalated. It shows a more than five minute standoff between the two men, during which the man even appears to spit at the worker. What began as a tense face-off did not stay at a distance for long, with the recording documenting each stage of the encounter as it unfolded.
The confrontation eventually turned physical. According to the report, the two men lunge at each other and go to the ground, with the man kicking and punching before he is finally pulled off. Witnesses told News 12 that the worker was left with cuts and blood all over his arm after the struggle.
Police have since identified the man at the center of the case. Authorities named him as 26-year-old Trayvon Rumble, the suspect they say was responsible for the attack on the EMS worker that was caught on the exclusive video.
Investigators say the suspect was already known to the system. According to police, Rumble had previously been charged six times as an adult, including an arrest for burglary and another for false impersonation just last month, pointing to a record that stretched back before this latest incident.
The newest case brings fresh charges. For the attack on the EMS worker, Rumble is now facing two counts of felony assault, the formal counts that police say stem from the violent encounter shown in the footage.
For people who live in the area, the episode landed close to home. One neighbor who said they regularly see the man described being shaken by what happened, suggesting he seemed to be someone in need of help, as the community reacted to the violence that played out on the video now circulating after the arrest.