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Each year, Jim Cirafice honors veterans during Christmas with a dazzling red, white and blue display at his house. But Monday, it was his yard in Rockland that turned into what some would say was a war zone.
"They had me on the ground and they just kept beating me," Cirafice said.
According to Cirafice, he was admiring his decorated tree when his neighbors suddenly attacked him. He said the attack may have been set off in part by an issue with cleaning up after a dog.
"I couldn't use any defensive moves on her because it's a woman. And it's a child," he said.
The accused assailants, Jim says, are a woman and her teen son who live above him.
He told FOX25 the boy brandished a pair of scissors.
"The first jab I blocked, which was heading for my stomach. The second one he had opened the scissors which caused me to have defensive wounds on my hands. I have deep cuts on three of my fingers," he said.
Cirafice was also injured in the foot and has a black eye.
"It's actually a broken eye socket and a broken nose," he said.
Rockland police would not comment on the incident because a minor was involved.
The district attorney's office also held off on commenting, for the same reason. The alleged assailants also declined to comment on the advice of counsel.
Cirafice said that what surprised him the most was the fact that his alleged attackers were released, but he still wants to move on.
"As far as I'm concerned this is a bump in the road," he said.
