Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an as­sault on Guardian Me­dia se­nior pho­tog­ra­ph­er Kris­t­ian De Sil­va while he was on du­ty yes­ter­day.

The as­sailant, who is in his 60s and lives at In­de­pen­dence Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do, could face charges of as­sault and ma­li­cious dam­age, po­lice said. How­ev­er, he has not yet been ar­rest­ed as in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

De Sil­va said he was dri­ving along the north­ern lane of In­de­pen­dence Av­enue when he saw two nurs­es com­ing out of the car and en­ter­ing a res­i­dence. He stopped at the side of the road and was tak­ing pho­tos when a man, who was sit­ting on the porch of the house, threat­ened to hit him with two bot­tles.

“I was sit­ting in my ve­hi­cle very calm­ly. He came out of his home, walked across In­de­pen­dence Av­enue on the op­po­site side, my win­dow was down, (he) came to my ve­hi­cle and push his hand in my face, hit me on my hand, hit me with a bot­tle, push the bot­tle in my face.”

De Sil­va said he showed the man his press pass, but he grabbed the pass from around his neck and threw it on the road.

De Sil­va said he “flagged down” a pass­ing po­lice ve­hi­cle with two po­lice of­fi­cers and told them what hap­pened. He al­so point­ed out the as­sailant’s house.

The of­fi­cers, how­ev­er, ad­vised him to make a re­port at the po­lice sta­tion and left.

De Sil­va said he went to the near­by po­lice sta­tion where he made a re­port and was ad­vised to seek med­ical treat­ment at the Pleas­antville Health Cen­tre. He said the at­tack was un­pro­voked and un­just as he was on a pub­lic road per­form­ing his du­ties as a mem­ber of the me­dia.

Po­lice of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the scene where the in­ci­dent oc­curred and in­ter­viewed the as­sailant at his home.

A se­nior of­fi­cer said if De Sil­va’s press pass was dam­aged then the man could al­so face a ma­li­cious dam­age charge in ad­di­tion to as­sault.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.