BROOKLYN — Police were still looking for a teenage girl — part of a group of six — who was caught on cellphone video viciously beating a fellow high school student in a Flatbush McDonald's last week, according to the NYPD.
Four of the other suspects in the attack were arraigned last week on a slew of gang assault and robbery charges in connection to the March 9 assault, the Brooklyn District Attorney said. Another suspect, a 14-year-old girl, was caught by Atlanta police on an plane in the airport's international terminal last Thursday, police there said. She was taken to a juvenile detention facility there.
Mercedes Wilkinson, 16, Tilani Marshall, 17, and Dahvina Gonzalez, 15, were arrested on Friday and the crew's ringleader, Aniah Ferguson, 16, was arrested on Thursday. They are being held on $25,000 bail and will all be tried as adults, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office said.
A School Safety Agent identified three of the girls from the cellphone video that went viral as students were at George Wingate High School, the criminal complaints against them said.
Police arrested another girl, Zaira Ingran, 16, at the scene last Monday, in a scuffle just before the bashing in front of the McDonald's. She was arraigned last weekend and was held on $200,000 bail.
A grainy cellphone video taken inside a restaurant at 943 Flatbush Avenue, near Snyder Avenue, captured the beating just as school let out around 3 p.m.
A group of girls, surrounded by onlookers who did nothing to stop them, punched, kicked and shoved the victim who curled up on the ground with her hands shielding her head from the blows.
Police would not give any details about whether or not the other girls charged have prior offenses.
Ferguson's lawyer declined to comment and lawyers for the other girlss could not be reached for immediate comment.
