European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday Asci 23.1989 rape was part of . Rampage 9 people attacked during Wilding new York not the youths who raped and savagely beat a Young investment banker As she jogged in Central Park on wednesday night were members of a loosely organized gang of 32 schoolboys whose ran Dom motive less assaults terrorize at least nine people in a two hour period new York police investigators say. The City s Chic of detectives. Robert Cotangco said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning had told investigators thai the crime spree was the product of a pastime called it s not 3 term that we in the police bad heard before. Colangelo that the police were unaware of any similar incidents in the Park recently they just said we were going Wilding in my mind at this Point it implies that they were going to go raise he said the attacks appeared to be unrelated to Money race drugs or alcohol in about a two hour period the youths sometime sin smaller bands also harassed one Man knocked an other to the ground punched a 52-year-old Jogger assaulted another male Jogger in his 30s, rocks a couple Riding a tandem bicycle and attacked two other joggers one a Man in his 40s who was struck with a Metal pipe and seriously injured. Four of the boys two 14-year-Olds and two 15-Vcar Olds were charged As adults with attempted murder rape and assault on the 28-year-old Salomon Brothers banker Colangelo said police hoped other arrests would Fol Low in the rape and assault Case As Well As in the other incidents. The chief said the four suspects were among 12 boys who were thought to have attacked the woman the woman remained on the critical list at metro Politan Hospital Skull fractures and facial injuries she had been raped by at least four of the boys and beaten repeatedly with fists a Rock and a 12 Inch Metal pipe police said. She was identified about noon thursday by co workers who heard news reports and went to the police on a Hunch that they knew the victim. Three the rape and assault also were charged As adults with assault in inc attack minutes before of a Jogger in his 40s. He was beaten on the. Park bridle pain near West .96th other suspects in thai assault arc 13 and 14. The four boys charged in inc attack on the invest ment banker All from upper Manhattan were identified As Raymond Santana 14 Kevin Richardson 14 Steve Lopez 15 and Anion Mccray 5. The three also charged in the assault on the male Joglar in his 40$ were Lac Santana Lopez in d Richard son youths. The names of the 13-year-old and 14-year-old also charged in that assault were not released. All six boys arrested remained in custody awaiting arraignment and police officials said that two other were being questioned. All of the youths whom the police were required to question in the presence of their parents could be sentenced to prison terms of j i to nine years on each felony count if found guilty. Colangelo said that none of the youths questioned they just said we were going Wilding in my mind at this Point it implies that they were going to go raise Robert Colangelo had criminal records and thai we Don t Sec any drug use it s very difficult to explain he said. I think the were a group of kids who lived relatively close together who Hun out together and i think on wednesday night they said let s raise a Little hell go into the Parkland assault and harass joggers and bicyclists " the full dimensions of the episode which occurred under a full Moon on a mild Spring night did not become apparent to detectives until hours after the first assault. In that incident the 32 youths harassed a Man near the Park at 110th Strucel and Central Park West the police said. Colang cup said that the group split up at times into Coretta King opens Summit decries disunity among Blacks new .0 r leans a corel la Scot i King la my need a Lack of Unity among Blacks and rep Ron Dell urns blasted the budget priorities of the president and co grew As the african american Summit 89 opened Friday. Today we have More of what we fought for More african american elected officials More educational Opportunity More Access to Public accommodations said King the widow of Martin Luther King. Yet we have less Unity than we had during the civil rights movement such Unity must be regained if Blacks arc to Over come burgeoning poverty and Rise to positions of Power in business and politics she Suid in her opening speech to the summit1 the first such gathering since then mayor Richard Hatcher helped organize one in Gary 1972. Hatcher us chairman of the new conference called for development of a social and politic Al Agenda for Blacks in the 1990s and for dealing with such issues As threats to the Black family to can age pregnancy and drug abuse a panel discussion on criminal Justice was to in clude Angela Davis an activist who gained renown in the 1970s with hit arrest and acquittal on charge stemming from a 1970 shootout at the Marion county courthouse in Northern California a Drums d-calif., in his keynote speech before nearly 1,000 people said Blacks must concern then selves not just with Domestic problems but also with the oppression and poverty that afflict Blacks through out the world. " and he criticized president Bush and the democratic leadership of Congress for this month s much heralded budget Compromise most of inc Congress and As far As i m concerned the executive Branch have tailed the a Brno test of what a National budget ought to be Dellure Tissair Dellums chairman of the congressional Black Cau Cus group s own budget proposal would re Duce the Federal deficit by .$92.4 billion by placing a heavier tax Burden on the wealthy and reducing the military budget while increasing spending to feed the poor improve schools and build Homes. We Don t need my missiles and midget Man and Trident missiles and by bombers and Star wars said Dellums. You can t feed an by with it you can t educate anybody with it you can t create housing with it. It s in welcoming participants to the Summit. Hatcher made an oblique reference to the absence of a leading Black Republican Fred Brown of new York who last month withdrew after organizers extended invitations to Dayis and Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan who did no at tend. This in t about the people who Aren t Here Hatcher said it is about the people who arc Hatcher said he regretted the Republican Leader s absence because his Early help in the conference was valuable and he has something to offer that would certainly make this a better meeting fewer than 1,000 people were in the Hall for speeches by a blunts King and others but Hatcher said he was not perturbed by the relatively Low Atten dance 1 it was inc Media that got into numbers he said. The people that cared enough to come spent their own Money. If they cared enough to be Here then id me Tell you something my expectations have been smaller bands but that it was uncles who in each of inc smaller groups was responsible for the six assaults apart from the rape and inc pipe attack pm the joggerinhi54
