Cops charge seven more teens in vicious gang attack on NYC girl
Seven more teens have been arrested in the vicious robbery of a 15-year-old girl who was pummeled and stomped on a Brooklyn sidewalk before having her Air Jordan sneakers snatched off her feet, the NYPD said Sunday.
The arrests brought to 12 the number of alleged attackers charged in the horrific, caught-on-camera incident in Crown Heights last week.
The defendants are all males between 14 and 17, except for one 14-year-old girl, according to cops.
Seven other suspects are still being sought, according to remarks made in court by a prosecutor on Saturday.
Disturbing surveillance video shows the girl being punched and kicked by a lone assailant as she lay on a sidewalk, only to have a horde of other teens race up and join in the merciless attack, which authorities say took place on Utica Avenue around 4:10 p.m. Thursday.
One boy, wearing boots, even leaped into the air and landed on the defenseless victim with both feet, the video shows.
The mother of one teen charged in the incident said Saturday that she was “beyond shocked” when the clip popped up in her social media feed.