Three Brooklyn teen-agers have been taken into custody and will be arraigned on felony charges in connection with the anti-Semitic attack that seriously injured two Jewish students near the Brooklyn College campus early Sunday, just before Yom Kippur.
The three suspects surrendered separately at the 70th Precinct in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn Tuesday evening, according to Detective James Coleman of the Police Department’s Public Information Office.
Coleman identified them as Anthony Sorrentino, 18, Joseph Guben, 16, and James Hynes, 17.
He said that Sorrentino, who lives in the Bensonhurst section of the borough, has been charged with felony assault in the first degree, riot in the first degree, two counts of aggravated harassment and violation of New York state civil rights laws.
Guben, a resident of the Sheepshead Bay section, and Hynes of the Midwood section, are both charged with first degree felonious assault and violation of the civil rights law.
Coleman said Sorrentino was the first to surrender, coming to the precinct house in the company of a lawyer.
Guben and Hynes arrived later escorted by detectives, and the three were charged after interrogation. Detectives at the 70th Precinct would not say whether further arrests are expected at this time, but said the case is still under intensive investigation.
Police also declined to comment on an earlier report that the 16-year-old suspect — apparently Guben — was Jewish.
The attack, which witnesses said was committed by 10 to 20 white teen-agers and young adults, left two 19-year-olds, Steven Weisburg and Joshua Fogel, hospitalized with multiple injuries including skull fractures and one ruptured spleen.
(J.J. Goldberg of The New York Jewish Week contributed to this report.)
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