The off-duty cop who got brutally beaten outside a Queens diner has been released from the hospital, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Monday.
Sgt. Mohamed Deen, 40, was being treated at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering multiple fractures to his face and a brain hemorrhage in the relentless attack more than a week ago.
A grisly cell-phone video posted online shows a brawny thug sucker-punch Deen to the ground, then repeatedly pummel his face and head before trying in vain to smash his way into Deen’s white BMW sedan, with wife Ashley Raghoo-Deen locked inside.
The attacker then returns to Deen as he lay in the street, smashing his head against the pavement before battering him some more.
Cops said the violence erupted around 5:30 a.m. Nov. 17 in front of the St. John’s Express restaurant on Liberty Avenue, and followed an earlier confrontation between Deen and his assailant at the Maracas nightclub on Jamaica Avenue, about a mile away.
Auto mechanic Hayden Holder, 29, was caught running away from the scene and is charged with attempted murder and assault.