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A group of teens brutally beat two girls in a Queens park with a baseball bat — and even shaved the head of one of the victims in a horrific caught on video attack that a relative said was like 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 began an argument.
At least four 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old dragged the girls to a wooded trail and ruthlessly whacked them with the bat, according to police and video clips of the incident posted to social media.
One of the tormenters allegedly shaved part of the 16-year-old’s head with a portable hair clipper, 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, police said.
A brute in a black and red hooded sweatshirt could be seen whaling on the 13-year-old with the bat as she lay on the ground curled into a ball, according to disturbing video posted last week on Instagram by the advocacy group Asians With Attitudes (AWA).
He then ripped off her sneakers and pummeled her again.
The assailant then sat the victim up, and appeared to take a piece of clothing off of her, according to the footage. The girl appeared limp by the end of the attack, the video showed.
“This was a planned, vicious and inhumane assault . This wasn’t bullying, it was torture,” one community advocate said in a response video.
The victims knew their attackers, according to police, who did not reveal what the kids were beefing about.
The victims were both Chinese and the attackers reportedly appeared to be Asian as well. The incident has not been deemed a hate crime, authorities said.
One of the girls lost consciousness during the two-hour ordeal, World Journal, a Queens-based Chinese newspaper reported.
The family shared photos of the older girl on a hospital gurney with her back covered with massive bruises and a patch of hair missing from right above her forehead, World Journal reported.
“The whole process was like an execution,” an unnamed relative told the outlet, adding that the victim struggled to even speak after the attack.
Police are treating the incident as a robbery, since the group made off with the younger girl’s sneakers and the other victim’s phone — but the victims’ families have called for further 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 slew 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 and a fifth was arrested on Monday.
The Kissena Park beatdown comes less than a year after the terrifying rape of a teen girl in the same green space.
A 25-year-old migrant attacked that victim, 13, typing up her and a male friend at knifepoint in a wooded area of the park. Christian Inga was indicted in September for kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault and rape in the incident, according to officials.
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