(Washington Insider Magazine) Earl Gumbs was arrested on pending murder and assault charges against him after fatally beating Duane Patterson outside a Manhattan bar.
A criminal was arrested Thursday for allegedly beating a bouncer to death outside a Chelsea, Manhattan, bar on Christmas Eve, police said.
Identified as Earl Gumbs, 34, he was captured and murder and assault charges were pending against him, authorities said.
Duane Patterson, 61, was working at Billymark’s West Bar on Ninth Avenue near West 29th Street when he and the offender started a fight at 3 a.m. Dec. 24, officials said.
The altercation spilled over outside the venue, where Gumbs punched Patterson in the face, throwing him to the ground and causing him to hit his head. A bartender found him unconscious and called the police.
The shooter fled the scene and officers had been searching for him ever since.
The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital and was in a coma for several days before losing his life, authorities and his relatives declared.
“Duane suffered a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for four days,” Duane’s daughter, Arianna Buchholz, said in a GoFundMe post, the New York Post reported.
“Unfortunately, the intensive care he received was not enough to revive his mind,” she wrote. “The family needs emotional and financial support during this devastating time.”
The woman described her father, who was an organ donor, as “such a strong and honorable person” that he “was always quick to make us laugh.”
Her kidney was donated to her sister, whose kidneys were failing due to diabetes. The rest of his organs were donated to others in need, Patterson’s wife Melissa Bulchholz said.
Unprovoked Murder
“This was an unprovoked murder. I want him to suffer more than my husband,” Buchholz said of the attacker. “We want him to throw the full weight of the law at him.”
This article is authored by Marlyn Montilla.
