By Shane Galvin | New York Post
Two teens have been charged in the attack on ex-Governor David Paterson and his stepson, according to sources.
The juveniles turned themselves over to police along with their parents at the 23rd Precinct on Saturday night, less than 24 hours after the attack on Paterson and his step-son, Anthony Chester Sliwa, as the pair walked their dog on the Upper East Side Friday.
The alleged assailants are facing second-degree assault charges, police sources say.
A third teen who spoke to cops along with the suspect was not charged as it was determined he did not attack the Sliwa or former governor, who is legally blind.
Paterson, 70, and Sliwa, 20, encountered the group of teens climbing a fire escape on Second Avenue near East 96th Street.
Sliwa admonished the teens out of fear for their safety and that of others, according to Paterson.
The teens then came off the fire escape and yelled at the father-step-son duo – but the pair continued on their walk.
Then on the way back home, the same group confronted and then attacked them outside a McDonalds, the sources said.
“I got punched in the face a couple of times and I got punched in the shoulder,” Paterson said, “but the person who punched me on the shoulder, I threw them against the McDonalds window myself.”
Sliwa, the son of Curtis Sliwa, is trained in martial arts and was raised to be a Guardian Angel from a young age.
But he was not able to escape the incident unharmed. While fending off the assailants, Sliwa was hit several times in the face and a cut to his lower-lip required five stitches.
Paterson and Sliwa were treated at NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Center and discharged early Saturday morning.
Police initially said a group of five people – including an adult woman with purple hair who threw the first punch – were being sought in connection to the incident.
Police would not confirm that they were seeking any more suspects.
Paterson, who served as New York’s governor from 2008 to 2010, is married to Mary Paterson, the ex-wife of Sliwa.
