A group of teens brutally beat two girls with a baseball bat in a Queens park, even shaving one of the victims’ heads in a horrific attack caught on video that a relative described as an attempted “execution,” The Post has learned.
The 13- and 16-year-old friends were playing basketball in Flushing’s Kissena Park around 6 p.m. on May 2 when a group of older kids approached and got into an argument.
According to police and video footage posted on social media, at least four 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old dragged the girls to a wooded trail and brutally beat them with the bat.
One of the tormentors allegedly used a portable hair clipper to shave a portion of the 16-year-old’s head, and the mob fled with her cell phone and the younger girl’s $558 limited edition Air Jordan 4 White Oreos, leaving the victims bruised and swollen, according to police.
A brute in a black and red hooded sweatshirt was seen whaling on the 13-year-old with the bat as she lay on the ground curled into a ball, according to a disturbing video posted last week on Instagram by the advocacy group Asians With Attitudes (AWA).
He then tore off her sneakers and pummeled her again.
According to the video, the attacker then sat the victim up and appeared to remove a piece of her clothing.
According to the video, the girl appeared limp at the end of the attack.
“This was a premeditated, vicious, and inhumane assault. “This was not bullying; it was torture,” one community advocate stated in a response video.
According to police, the victims knew their attackers, but they did not reveal what the kids were fighting about.
The victims were both Chinese, and the attackers also appeared to be Asian. Authorities said the incident was not a hate crime.
World Journal, a Chinese newspaper based in Queens, reported that one of the girls lost consciousness during the two-hour ordeal.
The family shared photos of the older girl on a hospital gurney, her back covered in massive bruises and a patch of hair missing from just above her forehead, according to World Journal.
“The whole process was like an execution,” an unnamed relative told the outlet, adding that the victim struggled to speak following the attack.
Police are treating the incident as a robbery because the group stole the younger girl’s sneakers and the other victim’s phone — but the victims’ families have requested additional investigation.
So far, the NYPD has arrested three 17-year-old males, a 17-year-old female, and a 16-year-old boy on a variety of charges including felony robbery, assault, gang assault, strangulation, harassment, weapons possession, and grand larceny.
Four of the alleged attackers were arrested a week after the incident, while a fifth was apprehended on Monday.
The assault in Kissena Park comes less than a year after a teen girl was brutally raped in the same area.
A 25-year-old migrant held the victim, 13, and a male friend at knifepoint in a wooded area of the park. According to officials, Christian Inga was charged in September with kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault, and rape in connection with the incident.