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TERROR IN CENTRAL PARK: VICTIM HAS 50-50 CHANCE
Salurday, Apri
WILDING' TEENS
HELD IN RAPE
Golng wilding
In the streets
On the streets, where
kids groove on staccato
blasts of rap music, it's
called "wilding"
"You could say, Tm
wilding,' and it means do-
ing prankish jokes that
Jead to violence or cha-
0s," said Kevin Maxwell,
a salesman at Downstairs
Records, a Manhattan
shop frequented by rap
dise jockeys
While cops said yester-
day the term was new to
them, Maxwell said
"down" or hip kide have
used "wilding" as slang
for "bugging out" or "go-
ing berserk" for about
two years.
Deejays said they've
never heard the term in
rap titles or lyries, which
typically feature rhyth-
mie rhymed chants. But
M.C. Serch, 22, a Cołum-
bia Records recording
artist. sald rap fans and
kids all know about wild-
ing.
"It could mean having a
good time, but the way
the worst eriminal ele-
ment uses it, it means vio-
Jence," said Serch.
7 are called part of wolf pack
Seven teenagers were charged yesterday with
brutally raping and nearly killing a jogger dur-
ing a crime spree in which nearly three dozen
youths roamed Central Park "wilding" - ran-
domly attacking anyone they found.
The youths - aged 14 to 16 -
were charged as the coma-
tose woman, a 28-year-old in-
vestment banker, battled for
her life. Cops said the teens
were part of a wolf pack that
attacked at least nine people
during their rampage.
Doctors said the woman, a
Pittsburgh-area native who
has lived on the upper East
Side since 1986, suffered
multiple head fractures,
bruises to the front and back
of her brain and possible se-
vere brain damage.
The woman is not being der, rape and assault on the
identified by the Daily News
because she is a rape victim.
An honors grad with a mas-
ter's degree from Yale, the
vietim was listed in "ex-
tremely critical" condition
and was attached to high-tech
life support systems.
"She has a 50-50 chance,"
said Dr. Robert Kurtz, direc- used the pipe and rock when
tor of surgery for the Inten- she continued screaming and
sive Care Unit at Metropoli-. clawing at them.
tan Hospital, where the wo-
man was surrounded by her
tearful and stunned family.
"She has a fighting chance 15, of W. 111th St.; Clarence
to return to completely nor- Thomas, 14, of W. 112th St.; They described how the wom-
mal functions," Kurtz added.
This story was reported
by Daily News staff
writers SHARON
BROUSSARD, LARRY
CELONA, INORID DEVITA,
JAMES DUDOY, TONY
MARCANO, PATRICE
O'SHAUGNNESsSY and
CLAIRE SERANT. It was
written by STUART
MARQUES.
The seven teens were
charged with attempted mur-
woman, who put up a fierce
struggle as she was beaten
unconscious with fists, a 12-
inch pipe and a rock.
Cops said some of the ac-
cused teens told them they
initially beat the woman with
fists to subdue her, but then
-Jehn Marzulli
Richardson, 14, Kharey
Wise, 16, and Steve Lopez, 15,
all of the Schomburg Plaza
Houses on Fifth Ave.
Police sources said Rich-
ardson, a student at Jackie
Robinson Junior High
School, and MeCray, a pupil
at Career Academy Junior
High, reenacted the attack
for detectives yesterday.
The suspects were identi-
fied as Raymond Santana, 14,
of E. 119th St.; Anton McCray,
and Yusef Salaam, 15, Kevin
an was pulled off the 102d St.
transverse in the park,
dragged into the woods,
stripped and raped.
Police said a dozen youths
took part in the attack, but
that not all of them raped the
woman. Cops said she battled
so fiercely she seratched
Richardson across the face.
Sources said some of the
youths gave statements ad-
mitting their guilt and de-
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seribing the assault in graph-
ie detail.
Though they will be tried
as adults, they must be sen-
tenced as juveniles if convict-
ed. For example, a juvenile
convicted of rape or attempt-
ed murder would face a max-
imum sentence of 3% to 10
years - compared to 84 to 25
for an adult.
Richardson, Santana, Lo-
pez and two others - a 13-
year-old and a 14-year-old -
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