The teen’s family told Iowa News reporter Jim Dolan that he was not there at the time of the incident and did not participate.
Police on Friday arrested and charged a 17-year-old man with felony criminal mischief for allegedly damaging a BMW and a taxi and assaulting a businessman.
The incident was reported at 4 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of East 21st Street and Fifth Avenue, and on Thursday a group of teenagers surrounded and vandalized two cars.
One of the teenagers allegedly kicked the BMW SUV as it was surrounded by a large group.
The parents of the teenager, who was previously charged, said he had Alibi, and was buying gifts for his brother at the Queen’s Center Mall at the time of the incident.
Her brother and father showed almost a receipt at the time of the incident as well as what they said were screenshots of her cellphone tracking apps.
That is completely unacceptable, said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “You have done something to these teenagers that is just wrong, period. At least one has been arrested, there will be others. Look, we’ve done it to teach our youth better all the time. We have the consequences, too. So in this case, the results will come. I don’t want to see this happen again in New York City. “
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Police are searching for four teenagers apparently caught on video throwing a bike over the car’s hood, jumping over a windshield, and punching the rear window nine times.
At least two of them are investigating the possible identities of the suspects, and more arrests are expected.
They estimate that as many as 25 cyclists were part of the group around BMW, and that there was previously a yellow taxi on East 29th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Attorney Tenny Garagoz recorded the video and said she had seen many others do the same.
“Suddenly, I heard a loud scream and commotion.” “I ran from the conference table to the window to see what the season was like. I saw dozens and dozens of cyclists, banging, taking turns, cycling in front of the cab driver, the cab driver’s cab.”
She is urging anyone who has a video of the incident to turn it over to the police.
“There were a lot of them, there were a lot of them, and they were taking turns in the back of her window,” he said. “Then, they completely tied his mirrors to his car, and then a biker hit him too.”
She said she was shocked.
He said, “I was horrified, now seeing him and knowing it had happened to other people.” “It was horrible. It was almost unbelievable because there was nothing I had ever seen in that city. I was really praying that everything would be okay.
The 36-year-old BMW driver, Max Torgovinik, was with his mother when the scene happened. Both.
“And I saw that these cyclists, tall, small children were just weaving in and out of traffic and paying attention to the kind of surroundings of the car.” “We got to the point where they were in front of me and they were on both sides of me and behind me, and I was probably going seven or eight miles like an hour.”
The children have holdings on the door handles, Torgovinik said. He said his first instinct was to slow down, stop and let them pass.
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He said he did not see it, but a witness told him the driver of the bike was in the back of a vehicle. And when it slowed down the biker apparently collided with the back of the car.
Torgovinik says this is the same attack that was captured on camera. He said he stopped when he heard the trunk to make sure everyone was fine.
“I started to open the driver’s door, but I was immediately surrounded by these kids who stopped the bike and they started screaming, driving, hitting the car, hitting the hood of the car, just screaming, ‘Get out.’ “Get out, roll out the window, roll down the window,” he said. “When I didn’t, they started attacking the car.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIP (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-Pista (74782).
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