Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The 13-year-old Hispanic boy who pushed a shopping cart off a Harlem overpass - hitting a woman and putting her in a coma - cared more about his sneakers than her condition, according to officials

City lawyer Leah Schmelzer said that Jeovanni Rosario, 13, and his partner in crime Raymond Hernandez, 12, spent the day laughing and joking and showed no empathy or remorse after the October 30, 2011 incident. He told Manhattan Family Court judge Susan Larabee that the respondent was more concerned with the condition of his sneakers than the condition of his victim. A police source said that Rosario asked if he was going to be able to get his sneakers back as he was led off to detention. Both boys have pleaded guilty to dropping the cart over the railing of a shopping mall despite knowing it could seriously hurt those below. Their actions left philanthropist mother-of-two Marion Hedges, 47, in a coma and they face anything from probation up to being jailed until their 18th birthdays. She had been at the mall buying candy for disadvantaged children with her 13-year-old son and remains seriously injured from a head injury. The 13-year-old Latino has a history of troubling behavior — from trying to run down schoolmates on his bicycle to hitting his mother's cat — before the latest and most serious incident with the shopping cart that took place in the parking lot of a Harlem Target store.

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