News 12 Westchester Reporter Attacked in Yonkers

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CeFaan Kim, reporter at Cablevision's News 12 Westchester (NY), was the victim of an attempted mugging in Yonkers, NY while walking to work.

Kim was assaulted around 9 a.m. on March 21 while walking from a local train station. Four teens set upon him, hitting him 30-plus times in the head, before departing when motorists stopped to help.

"They were just going to town on my head," he told a News 12 colleague on air.

Police arrested the four, students at a nearby school for troubled youths, who are being charged with attempted robbery and assault.
Kim previously reported for NY 1. He suffered a broken nose in the assault.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.