Ventura del Castillo Perez, 19, went to Mount Sinai Hospital and talked to Dr. Steven Silvers, 69, who was his mother’s doctor. Silvers is said to have given the suspects’ mother opioids after a treatment in June.
“I was going to my office and, at 8:15 in the morning, I briefly had an interaction with this gentleman and then I turned to walk away and he jumped me from the back and beat me, and there is clear video at Mount Sinai Hospital that shows this,” Silver told Castillo’s court hearing.
“He was waiting in the hallway pacing, waiting for me and I know this because I had an international patient.
Who was waiting in the area of the lobby by the elevators and she told my staff afterward, that she was very nervous as she saw this person walking up and down the hallways, up and down the hallways prior to me arriving,” Silvers said.
Castillo’s mother, Carolina Perez, said, “My son knows how bad things got for me with drugs.” “Being given a narcotic for me is something very, like I can not [starts crying].”
She also said in court that she did not know her son was going to the hospital to talk to her doctor.
Brett Silvers, who is Dr. Steven Silvers’s son, also spoke at the meeting and described how his father was hurt in the attack.
“My dad has two displaced fractures in his left sinus, six facial fractures, and a cribriform plate fracture at the base of his skull. He also had facial trauma.
” His right collar bone was broken three times, and his fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs were also broken. His head is swollen, there is blood on his face, and he has a brain bleed, Brett said.
Castillo told the police that Silvers had grabbed him first, which made him attack.
“He grabbed my phone and then grabbed my arm to try to keep me from leaving,” said Castillo.
“Then I grabbed the body lock, I lifted, and [unintelligible] he cracked his head by the lockers,” he said.
After seeing the surveillance tape, the judge did not agree with Castillo’s account of what happened. He called the attack “savage.”
“To be honest, I did not see the doctor grab him.”
“It is possible that the doctor was trying to keep him from leaving so that he could talk to him more, but this was a brutal attack on a 69-year-old man, who may have other problems that keep coming up,” said 11th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Alberto Milian.
It has been charged against Castillo with aggravated battery and battery on an emergency medical care worker. He was not given bail.
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