Real-life horror
Egging of baby among attacks on H’ween night
ONE HALLOWEEN monster beaned a 7-month-old boy in the head with an egg in Brooklyn, then robbed his irate mother, and another drove his minivan into a teenager in Queens, authorities said Wednesday.
The baby and his 27-year-old mother were trick-or-treating on Nostrand Ave. near Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 8 p.m. on Tuesday when a group of teens started hurling eggs and fruit at them, cops said.
One of the eggs hit the infant in his forehead, leaving a small bruise, the mom told police. Outraged, the mom confronted the teens — who threw more fruit and eggs.
The teens then began throwing punches, striking the baby’s mother in the face as they ran off with her backpack, which contained an iPhone 7 and a pair of shoes, according to police.
Officers later apprehended the teens — two boys and a girl between 13 and 15, a 16-yearold girl and an 18-year-old woman — cops said. The older teens, Destiny Williams, 18, and Vanaysia Buggs, 16, were charged with robbery, assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child. The younger suspects were charged as juveniles. Their arraignments were pending.
About 20 minutes after the that attack, motorist Keith Rich- ard, 50, plowed his Dodge minivan into 17-year-old Christopher Miraba on 23rd St. and Jackson Ave. in Long Island City after accusing Christopher and his friends of hitting him with eggs. “One for one!” Richard allegedly screamed moments before he hopped the sidewalk and began chasing down Christopher’s group.
As Richard chased the teens, Christopher split off, witnesses said. “(Richard) made a U-turn and ran him over,” said a witness who identified himself as Frank.
“Then he backed up and ran him over again. The kid was in real bad shape. He was bleeding from his head and his leg was twisted up real bad.”
Christopher wound up pinned against a traffic stanchion at the southeast corner of Jackson Ave., police sources said. Richard drove about a half block away, abandoned his minivan and was arrested as he made his escape, according to the sources.
“There was no denying it was intentional,” Frank said. “This was absolute evil.”
Medics took Christopher to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he is expected to survive but has a series of surgeries ahead of him, doctors told police.
Cops charged Richard with reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident, vehicular assault and reckless driving. His arraignment was pending.