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| Brian Carey |
The 1010 WINS anchor found savagely beaten in his Upper East Side apartment building Monday night was
beaten by his homeless male friend, police sources told The NYPost Wednesday.
52-year-old Brian Carey was pummeled around 11 p.m. Monday,
suffering a broken jaw, facial fractures and a deep gash, the sources said.
Carey, whose voice is familiar to millions of news junkies
who listen to 1010 WINS, staggered downstairs and collapsed in the lobby.
Police found him semi-conscious. His wallet and cell phone
were missing.
Carey was rushed to New York Presbyterian
Hospital
But Tuesday night, the newsman started communicating with
detectives and gave several different accounts.
“He first said it was a robbery,” said one police source. “Then he said
he knew the guy.” Carey ID’d his attacker to cops, who are now searching for
the suspect.
Carey has been a fixture at the “most-listened to station in
the nation” for more than a decade, and currently anchors the weekday
“afternoon drive” newscasts from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. He’s also heard across the country on the ABC
Radio Networks.
Carey is a Nanticoke ,
PA
He got a part-time job with WBRE 1340 AM while attending King’s
College and became the news director at WILK 980 AM Radio in his 20s.
He became anchor of an hour-long evening newscast for WARM 590
AM and was the morning anchor for WMGS Magic 93 FM before moving on to
anchoring jobs in Philadelphia and then NYC.
