Two adults busted in NYC beatdown on former Gov. David Paterson, stepson: sources

Two adults were nabbed Monday in the Upper East Side beatdown on former Gov.David Paterson and his stepson – the final suspects busted after two boys, 12 and 13, surrendered over the weekend, police sources said. Travor Nurse, 40, who is accused of slugging Paterson, and a 34-year-old woman whose name is being withheld pending charges, were apprehended in the Friday night attack on the pair on Second Avenue near East 96th Street, the sources said.Two boys – a 12-year-old who faces a second-degree gang assault rap and a 13-year-old charged with third-degree gang assault – turned themselves in on Saturday, cops said. A third boy, 14, was not charged after cops determined he was not an aggressor.“Governor Paterson and his family are glad to see the suspects turned themselves in,” a rep for the ex-gov said in a statement said after those arrests.

“We hope that the young people involved learn something from this unfortunate encounter. The attack unfolded when Paterson, 70, and his wife’s 20-year-old son, Anthony Chester Sliwa, spotted the crew climbing a fire escape shortly before 9 p.m., sources said at the time.The pair confronted the ruffians, who then attacked them, the sources said. The group of suspects “had a previous interaction with [Paterson’s] stepson,” according to Paterson’s spokesperson Sean Darcy.The ex-governor, who is legally blind, sustained a head injury, while Sliwa suffered a face wound and took the brunt of the attack, sources said.

They were both taken to NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center “as a precaution,” Darcy said.Paterson, who served as New York’s governor from 2008 to 2010, is married to Mary Paterson, the ex-wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.Sliwa and his ex-wife Mary share one child, Anthony....