A 51-year-old man from Brooklyn got in a nasty altercation in Washington Square Park this afternoon that sent two young men to the the hospital. A Walk in the Park reports that Charles Graham "removed a broken bottle from a sock and slashed two males, ages 22 and 27" in a dispute around 1:15 p.m. around Washington Square North and Fifth Avenue. It is unclear if the slashing was in any way provoked.
The two victims were transported to Bellevue in stable condition while Graham was charged with two counts of felony assault and one count of criminal possession of a weapon, the NYPD says.
Graham apparently was having a bad day. He reportedly had assaulted a parks employee in the park just two hours earlier. While the worker was cleaning Graham apparently "removed his belongings and then hit the parks worker in the face and fled the scene."
Graham was arrested by the Parks Enforcement Police but, as you can see in the below video (which goes on for a very long time), was turned over to the NYPD "due to staffing commitments at the Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park."
