10.31.2011

Woman Fights For Life After Teens Throw Shopping Cart Four-Stories In Harlem Target Parking Garage

A woman was clinging to life Sunday after a shopping cart — pushed off a ledge by a group of teens in East Harlem — plummeted four stories and landed on her head, cops and witnesses said.

The 47-year-old woman was with a young boy when the red cart dropped from a walkway that connects a Target store to a parking lot near E. 116th St. and Pleasant Ave. about 5:45 p.m., cops and witnesses said.

Moments before, Carlos Vargas, 35, said he spotted the young hooligans pushing the cart near the fourth-level parking lot.

“Their friend was trying to stop it, saying, ‘Don’t do it!’ ” Vargas recalled. “But they didn’t care.”
“Whatever happens, happens,” Vargas said one of the teens responded before they launched the cart from the overhead walkway.
The cart bounced off a sign before landing on the unidentified woman below, witnesses said.
“Her son, a young boy about 10 years old, was on top of her crying,” Vargas said. “It was bone-chilling to see that.”

“It hit her in the head. She just collapsed,” said Orlando Campos, 30, who ran to help the woman as blood pooled around her head. “She wasn’t moving at all.”

Emergency workers responded within minutes and rushed the woman to Harlem Hospital, where she was in critical condition last night.
Police were reviewing surveillance footage to try to identify the suspects. No arrests were immediately made.


Daily News

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