Police have charged a man in connection with the assault of an 81-year-old woman in Bridgeport in September.

Samuel Bryant, 42, was arrested on Thursday in connection with a warrant charging him with second-degree assault of an elderly person and first-degree reckless endangerment, according to the Bridgeport Police Department . He was taken into custody after officers responded to a call about a suspicious person squatting in a vacant East End residence.

Bryant was held on a $20,000 bond and was expected to be arraigned on Friday. Police have accused him of “repeatedly punching” an 81-year-old woman in the face and body near an East Side intersection on Sept 16.

The woman reported being assaulted near the intersection of Barnum Avenue and Central Avenue on her way home from a church

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