A Ring video of a pizza delivery man getting attacked inside of an apartment building in Pelham Bay is going viral.
“When you go into buildings, you don’t know what’s on the other side of the door,” said Billy Salierno.
Salierno said he was just doing his job earlier this month, when a tenant let him into the apartment building.
“I knocked on the [apartment] door,” Salierno said. “He told me, ‘Give me a minute.’ I wouldn’t have answered the door either if I saw what was going through the camera outside in the hallway and I had an infant baby in the house.”
The video shows the neighbor across the hall knocking the pizza out of Salierno’s hands twice, get in his face, then attempt to get into the apartment of the couple who ordered the pizza.
“I’m like in shock,” said Claudia Escobar Passafiume, the customer. “I don’t know what to do. I already had called the police earlier that day.”
The couple told News 12 that this was not the first incident with the neighbor. They said they’ve had more than a dozen issues with her within 10 days - which include trash being left in the hallway, spitting and threats.
The NYPD told News 12 that the woman who lives across the hall, Quanisha Reed, was arrested twice after the viral incident. One arrest was for assaulting a police officer and another was for criminal mischief.
News 12 knocked on Reed’s door for comment on Monday evening, but there was no answer.
“[Reed’s] mother spoke to my husband [and] said she does have a mental issue but she’s refusing help,” said Escobar Passafiume.
As for the viral moment, Escobar Passafiume said she only posted it to a community group to alert neighbors.
“I didn’t know it was out there [on other social media websites],” Escobar Passafiume said. “Then I started receiving messages, threats like, ‘It was your fault,’ ‘We should go after them,’ ‘We set them up.”
Salierno said he doesn’t feel that way. However, he said he is looking to press charges against Reed.
“We’re out there trying to make an honest living, and we don’t deserve to go through stuff like that,” Salierno said.
