Man Assaults Woman, Barricades Himself In Nearby Suffolk Home: PD

KINGS PARK, NY — Suffolk police on Sunday evening arrested the man they say broke into a Kings Park home and barricaded himself in a room following the assault of a woman who lived nearby.

Mark Reyes, 43, of Medford, entered the Clover Lane home of a woman who was his acquaintance on Saturday evening and held her against her will overnight, police said. The woman, 33, was assaulted and sustained knife-wounds, police said. She escaped the house around 9:30 a.m. Sunday and was brought to a nearby hospital for treatment of serious but non-life threatening injures, police said. Two children who were in the house at the time were unharmed, police said.

Reyes ran from the house and kicked in the back door of a nearby home on Rumford Road, around 9:35 a.m. Sunday, police said.

A Good Samaritan saw Reyes enter the home on Rumford Road and called 911, police said. Suffolk County Police Emergency Service Section officers and members of the hostage negotiation team responded to the scene, police said. Emergency Service Section officers entered the home and brought a 77-year-old woman living there to safety while Reyes barricaded himself in an upstairs bathroom, police said. The woman was uninjured.

Around 5:45 p.m., Emergency Service Section officers re-entered the home and removed Reyes from the house, police said. Reyes, who had a self-inflicted knife wound, was brought to a nearby hospital for treatment of serious but not life-threatening injuries, police said.

Reyes, who lives on Lacebark Lane, was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief, criminal obstruction of breathing, two counts of second-degree unlawful imprisonment, first-degree assault, aggravated criminal contempt, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree criminal trespassing and third-degree criminal mischief. Other charges may be pending, police said. He will be arraigned on a later date.