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One suspect collared in Pratt student beating

By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper

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Police arrested one teenager from a group of five that savagely beat a Pratt Institute student before robbing him in Clinton Hill last Friday.

The horde of hoodlums attacked the 22-year-old architecture major at the corner of Grand and Lexington avenues at 10 pm, clobbering the victim’s head with a crowbar and stealing his wallet and cellphone before leaving him critically injured in the street.

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The student, Eduardo Sanchez, remains in a coma in Kings County Hospital.

After police released a surveillance video, an anonymous tip cops led to the arrest of Eugene Adams, 16-year-old and Clinton Hill resident, on Wednesday morning. Police charged him with assault, robbery and possession of stolen property.

Two more suspects have been identified on the video, and cops said they expect them to be in custody.

Police chief Ray Kelly said the motivation for the crime was the robbery. The video shows the suspects using Sanchez’s bank card in an ATM shortly after they bloodied him.

The vicious incident startled the neighborhood, which has seen crime steadily drop for two decades.

But Pratt students still are often targets of muggings, though less violent, by people coveting their cellphones, iPods and laptops.

The brutality of this crime was too much for one Pratt co-ed who said she will move to a neighborhood where she’ll feel safer.

“Now I’m moving to another neighborhood because I don’t feel safe here coming out at night,” Jenni Hellstern told WCBS news.

Sanchez is from south Florida and transferred to Pratt two years ago, the Daily News reported.

©2009 Community Newspaper Group

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blackirish from clinton hill says:
Crime is down, you got to be kidding, that's a total misstatement..whatever, has to be coming from someone's fabricated statistics! Yo the crime never stops in Brooklyn, you live here you just learn to deal with it...Now, if they could just agree to hold a public trial of these lawless thugs in the city park, that would send a meaningful message to the other wannbe punks running rampart throughout the hood that the jig is up!!!! We need a hardcore SMACKdown in Brooklyn to bring this stuff to and end!
Aug. 13, 2009, 4:10 pm
blackirish from clinton hill says:
BULLROAR, we need to place the Michael Vick 5 behind bars as soon as possible, this reminds me of Brooklyn's infamous and mostly forgotten/hidden Jewish teenage mastermind criminals, I'm feeling the Horror of the past creeping back into the Brooklyn neighborhoods. I'm afraid the next effort may be to exceed the brutal beating with a copycat crime, the questions is whether or when will the thugs move from crowbars to slitting throats as the crime dejour.
Aug. 13, 2009, 4:54 pm
blackirish from clinton hill says:
I guess the Harlem business owner may have had the answer yesterday......right or wrong when you get tired of it, and have had enough, have the nerve to gun them down before they put a bullet in your head.
Aug. 15, 2009, 6:23 pm

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