City Council Speaker Christine Quinn [D-Chelsea] joined Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, members of the New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force and others distributed flyers to strap hangers at the Myrtle Avenue subway station earlier this morning in connection with the bias attack that has left Mario Vega hospitalized with serious brain injuries.
The NYPD continues to offer a $12,000 reward for information that could potentially lead to the arrest of the three men who attacked Vega late last month near his Bushwick home.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, left, and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, second from right, talk with strap hangers at the Myrtle Avenue subway station earlier this morning about the bias attack that has left Mexican immigrant Mario Vega hospitalized with serious brain injuries. (Photo courtesy of Shirley Limongi.)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Officials continue to investigate Bushwick hate crime
Monday, October 19, 2009
Bushwick resident remains hospitalized after bias attack
As activists, politicians and local residents rallied behind College Point resident Jack Price and his family last week, news of yet another bias attack in Bushwick broke.
Three men beat Mexican immigrant Mario Vega last month as he returned to his Bushwick home with groceries he had picked up at a lower Manhattan pantry. WABC reported the men shouted anti-Mexican slurs at Vega before they struck him in the head and knocked him from his bicycle. Channel 7 added Vega remains hospitalized in a Manhattan hospital with serious brain injuries.
The attack took place within blocks of where Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott allegedly beat Ecuadorian immigrant José Sucuzhañay to death last December. And it comes nearly a year after seven Long Island teenagers fatally stabbed Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue.
The New York Police Department continues to offer a reward for information that could potentially lead to the arrest of the three men who attacked Vega. Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn [D-Chelsea,] Councilmember Diana Reyna [D-Bushwick,] members of the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force and others will hand out flyers to strap hangers tomorrow morning at the Myrtle Avenue subway station on Broadway.
