Police arrested the 21-year-old son of "The Walking Dead" star Norman Reedus Friday night in Little Italy for allegedly punching a woman in the face.
Mingus Reedus was arrested and slapped with an assault charge for throwing a punch at a 24-year-old woman around 10 p.m. amid the San Gennaro festival in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood.
Cops say the victim had a laceration below one of her eyes and was taken to a downtown hospital by EMS.
The 21-year-old called the alleged assault an accident in comments made to The Daily News. He claimed the woman and her group bumped into Reedus and his friends at the festival.
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“We didn’t think anything of it, but these five girls followed us for two blocks, throwing food at us and yelling,” he told the outlet. " We told them so leave us alone, but they kept following, threatening to hurt my girlfriend and her friend."
According to Reedus, he accidentally struck the 24-year-old woman while throwing his arm out to create distance between the two groups after the initial contact was made.
