Rapt jurors watched disturbing footage of a West Village brawl that left a college student bloody and unconscious after he was battered with a tire iron, a bat, and a black jack.
The brother of victim Kevin McCarron broke down in tears in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday as he recalled finding his pummeled sibling lying motionless on MacDougal Street in the early morning darkness.
“He was unconscious,” said a weeping Patrick McCarron, “I was on my knees trying to wake him up. He was gasping for air and started puking.”
Hatem Farsakh, Sherif Rizk and Mahmoud Habib are on trial for attempted murder for allegedly using the arsenal to bludgeon McCarron and a group of pals.
Farsakh didn’t show up to pretrial hearings and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
The 24-year-old victim from Andover, Mass. suffered a fractured skull in the Jan. 13 attack and has not yet fully recovered, his brother testified.
Prosecutors showed jurors surveillance and cell phone video of the violent melee that began with two groups of men shouting and shoving each other in front of a stoop.
At one point, McCarron’s pals are seen fleeing as the attackers pursue them brandishing weapons retrieved from the trunks of their cars.
Roughly eight of McCarron’s college pals return into view and a brawl breaks out.
Patrick McCarron can be seen on the ground trying to fend off at least four men punching, kicking and whacking him with a bat.
The video pans out to show his brother lying unconscious in the middle of the street as the defendants flee in their cars.
The defendants are charged with attempted murder and gang assault.
Farsakh told police the fight began when a member of McCarron’s group used a racial slur aimed at their Arab background.