Thursday, October 12, 2006

More Nice White Boys

This is disgusting. The victim is probably going to die. His family is having to face the terrible decision of whether or not to remove life support. One of the men responsible is John Fox, 19; charged with the hate crime:
From the article:

At 9:40 p.m. on Sunday at the meeting place — a narrow, garbage-strewn parking lot near Sheepshead Bay, sandwiched between Plumb Beach and the eastbound lanes of the parkway — Mr. Sandy, 28, was attacked by at least two of the men, the police said. He backed away from them and, at one point, darted into the path of a car, which struck him and kept going, the police said. The police were still seeking the driver of the car that struck Mr. Sandy.

Other cars on the highway were forced to stop as the attack spilled across three lanes of roaring traffic. One witness told detectives that after Mr. Sandy was struck by the car, she saw a man drag him to the shoulder of the Belt Parkway and rifle his pockets.

Detectives investigating Internet communications Mr. Sandy had had were led to the first suspect, John Fox, 19, of Knapp Street in Brooklyn, who is a sophomore at SUNY Maritime College. The other two suspects are Gary Timmins, 16, of Gerritsen Beach, and Ilye Shurova, 20, of Sheepshead Bay. The three men were charged yesterday with first-degree assault as a hate crime, and first- and second-degree robbery, also as hate crimes, according to the police.