More than a dozen suspects brutally trampled a teenage girl, and the entire incident was captured on camera.
Even worse than the vicious attack was what one young man was observed doing to the girl when she was “bleeding like crazy” on the sidewalk.
After a gang of suspects brutally attacked and robbed a 15-year-old girl in Brooklyn, New York, at 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon, Carlita Gorden was working at a nearby salon when she heard screaming.
Gorden was troubled by what she observed when she rushed to the scene on Utica Avenue close to Sterling Place in Crown Heights.
More than a dozen suspects had viciously trampled on a girl who was on the sidewalk. Gorden reportedly told CBS,
“It’s just ridiculous that so many kids would jump on one individual.” “Grabbing on her book bag,” the girl said.
Just sitting there without shoes. Gordan recounted, “Then you see the little one running away while holding her sneakers.”
Surveillance footage captured the event, showing a male knocking the girl to the sidewalk before more than a dozen others joined in and started stomping her.
As more and more suspects gathered around the girl to partake in the vicious beating, the crowd’s number rapidly increased in a matter of seconds.
It’s sad, come on. As a community, we must perform better. As a collective, we must perform better. Gorden stated,
“That this little girl could’ve lost her life; it’s really sad,” and it’s difficult not to agree after watching the video of the suspects in the crowd kicking and stomping on the girl alternately.
The next day, New York City police said that five suspects—all of whom were minors—turned themselves in.
Armed with the video, the police claimed to be looking for the other suspects in the brutal gang attack.
Although they did not specify the nature of the prior event, investigators believe the attack was a reprisal for it.
A video shot from a different angle at the crossroads shows the crowd starting to disperse after viciously stomping the girl who was attacked.
Unfortunately, one suspect can be seen in that video yanking the girl’s sneakers from her feet as she lies bleeding and slumped on the sidewalk. The shoe thief is shown on camera grinning and laughing as he makes his escape.
The brutal stomping the victim experienced caused her face and torso to swell and bruise, necessitating medical attention at a hospital.
Her debit card and phone were taken along with her shoes. The neighborhood is understandably disturbed and afraid as a result of the attack.
“I didn’t require any difficulties,” Anita Peavy remarked. She claimed that she swiftly lowered the gate and went outside after the incident,
Which took place in front of her electronics business. According to her, “I [was] afraid the kids [would] come in here and just go crazy the
way they were going crazy out there.” “I have never in my life seen something like it … It was insane to watch such a young child just drop on one child.
“She was bleeding like crazy,” Peavy continued, adding that she is a certified nurse as well and that she attempted to assist the
Woman as the throng viciously trampled her. She said, “We just tried to keep her calm and sit there until the ambulance came.”
According to Tony Herbert, a longtime community organizer, the victim is his cousin, and the attack undoubtedly had long-term consequences in addition to the physical harm. She is currently traumatized.
She’s a little uncomfortable,” he clarified. “[Her] mother is just devastated right now to think that she sent her daughter to school only to find out later that she was assaulted in the city where she was born and raised.”
Although Eric Adams, the president of Brooklyn Borough, denounced the attack, the neighborhood has long struggled with this issue.
As evidence that criminal incidences involving juveniles are not new, the NYPD had just recently appointed over 300
Officers to operate as youth coordinators in order to crack down on crimes involving offenders under the age of 18.
Teens are known for getting into trouble, but this is a whole other level of mischief. This is blatant disrespect for
another human life and an attempt at murder. That is unacceptable. Regardless of any past incidents,
It is excessive, illegal, and most importantly, cowardly for a group of more than a dozen men to gather around a single adolescent girl who had little chance and continuously tread on her.