The New York restaurant dishwasher who was arrested for assaulting an elderly woman riding the subway was handed over to police by his own co-workers.
Marc Gomez, 36, was arrested on Saturday for repeatedly punching and kicking a 78-year-old woman riding a Bronx train on March 10, in an attack all caught on video.
Footage of the vicious assault was shared by police this weekend and racked up 13million views in an attempt to identify him.
Gomez worked as a dishwasher at the acclaimed Tribeca restaurant Frenchette and was immediately recognized in the viral video by his co-workers, leading the eatery owner to call the cops.
'I called the police immediately and gave them his name and address,' Frenchette co-owner Sean Cunningham said to the New York Post on Monday.
Co-workers of Marc Gomez, the 36-year-old who was arrested for attacking an elderly woman in a viral video, set him up for arrest on Saturday at the Tribeca restaurant Frenchette. He was apprehended still in his white kitchen uniform after he showed up for work as the dishwasher
Gomez was arrested on Saturday at Frenchette, the Tribeca restaurant where he worked as a dishwasher. His co-workers recognized him in the viral video of the subway attack and the restaurant owner reported him to police
'We wanted to make sure we did everything the right way and he was picked up as quickly as possible,' Frenchette co-owner Sean Cunningham on handing Gomez over to police
'We wanted to make sure we did everything the right way and he was picked up as quickly as possible,' he added.
Police first went to Gomez' home address but didn't find him there. Then detectives arrived to the restaurant, which has been awarded the esteemed James Beard 2019 award, on Saturday morning to apprehend him while he was at work.
Cunningham says that the entire restaurant worked carefully to make sure Gomez didn't expect a police ambush.
'There were not many staff in the kitchen at that time, he was one of the first there, and we made sure not to spook him,' Cunningham said.
Thanks to the staff's ploy, detectives were able to arrest Gomez without any trouble.
'The detectives arrested him in the kitchen dish-washing area and took him away, still wearing his kitchen whites,' Cunningham said.
Gomez was arrested on Saturday, identified as the man behind the shocking attacking of an elderly woman riding on a Bronx bound train
