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The umbrella man resumen1/1/2023 Click here for the summary of the seven boys’ statements. The Assistant District Attorney, Emanuel Growman, took the statements of the boys. Seven youths in total were charged with the slayings. The press excoriated Agron who did not help matters any when he was quoted as saying, “I don’t care if I burn my mother can watch.” Read more about the notoriety of the case here. With these two stabbings being the third and fourth gang killings in a week, it threw New York City into an uproar. Finally somebody said, “He has had enough.” Reimer survived but Young and Krzesinski died shortly after the stabbings. Agron also stabbed Ewald Reimer, who then broke free only to be tripped and stomped. A fight broke out, and before long the cape-clad attacker, Salvador Agron, had stabbed Robert Young and Anthony Krzesinski. After some discussion with the kids in the park, someone punched one of the “American” kids. When arriving at the park, the boys, one of them dressed in a cape, blocked off the exits, trapping some teenagers inside. Armed with an eight inch dagger, a three-foot garrison belt and a sharpened umbrella, the boys were ready for a fight. On August 29, 1959, in a light drizzle, twelve or thirteen Puerto Rican gang members of the Vampires, Crowns and Heart Kings piled into a taxi on their way to a small park in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, a predominantly “white” neighbourhood, to avenge the beating of one of their friends.
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