NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A homeless man pleaded guilty to sucker-punching “Ghostbusters” actor Rick Moranis in a random attack near Central Park in 2020, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
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Marquis Ventura, 37, entered the plea Tuesday and faces two years in prison when he’s sentenced on Aug. 23.
In addition to the Moranis assault, Ventura also admitted to charges linked to four unprovoked attacks in Manhattan, the New York Post reported.
Ventura pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, second-degree attempted assault, petit larceny and four counts of third-degree assault.
Moranis was walking on Central Park West, near W. 70th Street, on the Upper West Side on the morning of Oct. 1, 2020, when a man in an “I Love New York” hoodie came up and punched him with a closed fist, police said.
The “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and “Little Shop of Horrors” actor, now 69, was knocked to the ground by the blow.
The NYPD announced an arrest in the case the next month, saying an “eagle-eyed” transit sergeant nabbed the suspect.
Ventura also admitted to repeatedly punching a SoHo liquor store owner and stealing a bottle of champagne the same day Moranis was slugged.
He was also accused of attacking a bodega customer in SoHo and two subway riders in Greenwich Village and the Bronx.
Ventura’s lawyer said his client was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
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