Victim In Port Chester Assault Loses Eye

A Port Chester woman who was beaten by her boyfriend earlier this month had her eye removed, hospital officials told Port Chester police.

Boyfriend Michael Mobley, 30, is accused of attacking his girlfriend in a drug-fueled rage, swinging at her with a baseball bat and a metal barbell before going after her with a glass beer bottle and knife, Lt. James Ladeairous said. His 26-year-old girlfriend suffered multiple stab wounds and a deep cut to her left eye — blinding her — and after hospital staff at Westchester Medical Center stabilized the victim, they performed eye surgery.

Passersby on Irving Avenue initially thought Mobley was the victim when he stumbled out of his building at about 8:45 p.m. on June 6 and collapsed outside, bleeding heavily from one arm. Concerned onlookers called authorities, but when paramedics arrived, Mobley started hurling verbal abuse at them, Ladeairous said.

Paramedics busied themselves with treating Mobley, who didn't mention his severely injured girlfriend, and got him into a departing ambulance before a neighbor called to report a loud fight in a neighboring apartment. That's when paramedics and police found the 26-year-old victim in an upstairs room, immobilized from blunt force trauma, several knife and glass wounds, and her eye injury.

Mobley was kept under guard, with a police officer posted outside of his room at the medical center for several days after the attack, until he was stabilized and authorities could bring him in for arraignment in Port Chester village court. Mobley was charged with first-degree assault, a felony, and was denied a chance at bail. He's in custody in Westchester County Jail until his case moves to county court next week.