NATION : Gang Slaying of Black Teen-Ager
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NEW YORK — Four young white men were charged today with being part of a gang accused of killing one black teen-ager and chasing three others from a white neighborhood with baseball bats.
The gang of as many as 30 white youths, intent on preventing an interracial couple from meeting, mistakenly attacked the black teen-agers Wednesday night as they were going to meet someone selling a used car in Brooklyn’s mostly Italian-Jewish Bensonhurst section, authorities said.
Keith Mondello, 18; Steven Curreri, 18; Pasquale Raucci, 19, and Charles Stressler, 21, were charged today with assault, riot, aggravated harassment, violation of civil rights, menacing and possessing a weapon. The weapon was a bat.
Mondello and Curreri also were charged with conspiracy. Police said none of those arrested fired the shots that killed the victim, 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins.
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