Man Arrested For Assault At Ronkonkoma Train Station

RONKONKOMA, NY – A 52-year-old man was arrested for assaulting a man and shouting racial slurs at the Ronkonkoma Long Island Rail Road station Wednesday night, police said.

According to Suffolk Police, Sean Oree approached a Hispanic man, who was sitting on a bench at the station, yelled racial slurs and punched and kicked the man at 8:45 p.m.

The man was transported by members of the Ronkonkoma Fire Department to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Oree, of Westbury, was arrested at the scene. Hate Crimes Section detectives charged him with third degree assault as a hate crime. He was scheduled for arraignment Thursday at First District Court in Central Islip.

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