A hero teen dragged a shopping cart away from two 12-year-old boys who later grabbed another one and threw it four stories onto the head of a 47-year-old woman shopping for Halloween candy with her young son in Harlem, surveillance video shows.
Marion Hedges, a West Side philanthropist, remains hospitalized in critical condition after Sunday's incident. The boys who dropped the cart on her head have been arrested and charged with first-degree assault.
According to the Daily News, police got the surveillance video from the developer of the mall where Hedges was hurt.
It shows a teenager, believed to be about 14, pulling the cart away from the younger teens. The video also shows the 12-year-olds running back into the mall garage, grabbing another cart, and tossing it over the ledge onto the woman’s head.
“This is a horrible, unfortunate incident,” mall developer David Blumenfeld told the News. “It’s unfathomable that someone would do this.”
One of the accused 12-year-old’s grandmothers agreed, telling the paper she never believed her grandson could do such a thing.
The woman also confirmed to the paper that at least one teenager had told the boys they shouldn’t throw the cart over the ledge.
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The teenager pictured in the video is believed to be one of the people who turned the younger boys in to police. His identity has not been released.
