‘MONSTER’ AND VICTIM: Cops yesterday lead away from the 46th Precinct station house Casmine Aska (right), 17, who is accused of throwing Freddy Martin (left), 9, from their five-story Bronx building. (
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Barely alive after being tossed from the roof of a five-story building, a 9-year-old bravely named his teen assailant — who was then busted on an attempted murder charge, cops said.
Casmine Aska, 17, was expected to be arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court last night for his alleged attack on Freddy Martin.
Aska allegedly dragged Freddy from his third-floor apartment to the roof of his home in Morris Heights.
He then threw Martin from the roof, said law-enforcement sources.
Freddy, who remained on life support yesterday, cried for his mother after his body smashed into the sidewalk on Nelson Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Friday
Authorities at first thought Freddy — whose bedroom is filled with stuffed animals, Legos and a Knicks hat and is adorned with a school award for academic and attendance improvement — may have jumped off the building.
But as he was being rushed via ambulance to New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Freddy regained consciousness just long enough to tell cops Aska, his upstairs neighbor, threw him from the roof, authorities said.
He remained on life support last night.
“I’m praying to God that he gets better,” said the boy’s heartbroken grandfather, Juan Nunez, 78, who lives with Freddy, a younger sister, their mother and grandmother in a cramped, two-bedroom apartment.
“He had leg surgery, and at the same time, he was operated on his arm,” Nunez added in Spanish.
Grandmother Ortencia Perez, 72, said she was home during the incident, but thought Freddy had gone to the corner store to get a soda for his mother.
They didn’t realize what happened until a frantic neighborhood boy yelled, “Freddy is downstairs!”
By the time mother Ana Lucia Nunez rushed outside, the boy was being loaded into an ambulance.
“He has problems. The boy has had problems ever since he was born,” said Ortencia Perez, describing her grandson as a “nervous” child who takes at least four different types of medication daily.
Cops yesterday could not pinpoint a motive for the assault, sources said.
Aska’s rap sheet includes arrests for robbery, assault and menacing, said law-enforcement sources.