Arthur Cooke, 45, has died two weeks after he was brutally assaulted by a gang of ATV and dirt bike riders in Harlem following a fender bender.
A man has died after getting brutally assaulted by a gang of ATV and dirt bike riders earlier this month.
Arthur Cooke, 45, suffered severe injuries to his neck and spine as a result of the attack and died in the hospital two weeks after the violent attack. — Carmen Arroyo, Senior Director at the Exodus Transitional Community. Authorities say the November 4 assault happened around 10 p.m. on East 125th Street. One of the riders hit Cooke’s passenger-side mirror. Cooke got out to survey the damage and the riders attacked him."We were devastated," said Carmen Arroyo, Senior Director at Exodus Transitional Community. Cooke’s death was unexpected, and his friends and coworkers at Exodus Transitional Community believe— it was unprovoked.
"I don’t know how this could happen to somebody who was so loved in the community," Arroyo said. "How this could happen in this day and age when there are some many cameras all over and police officers patrolling the area?", vowing to step up enforcement, after a father and son were attacked by a group on dirt bikes in Harlem in March.
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