The view from the fourth-floor parking level. (NY Post: G.N. Miller)
Thugs tossed this cart from the fourth-floor parking level.
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The philanthropist who was crushed by a shopping cart that two preteen punks dropped from four stories above at a Harlem mall was technically dead at the scene — and she was brought back to life by a doctor who happened upon the scene, The Post has learned.
“She actually died in the parking lot. There was no pulse, and she wasn’t breathing. The doctor brought her back to life with CPR,” a law-enforcement source said yesterday of Marion Hedges, 47.
She had been shopping with her 13-year-old son for Halloween candy for needy kids at Costco on East 116th Street on Oct. 30, when she was smashed by the heavy plastic carriage that had been shoved off a parking-level walkway by Raymond Hernandez and Jeovanni Rosario, cops said.
Guarav Patel, a resident at New York Hospital who was shopping with his wife and year-old son, revived Hedges.
The mother of two was then rushed to Harlem Hospital, where she was placed in a medically induced coma due to her severe head injuries. During her recovery, Hedges has had to relearn her name and basic functions.
“She’ll never be the same. They altered her life forever. She will have cognitive issues,” said the law-enforcement source.
The source also revealed that the remorseless runts shared a particular interest in how the cops were able to catch them.
Rosario, the source noted, went as far as to make an “underlying threat” about a witness he thought had ratted him out.
“He’s not your typical 12-year-old kid. He’s pretty street-savvy,” said the source, referring to Rosario, who is now 13.
While in custody, the suspects even turned on each other at one point, the source said. “Both of them ratted out each other. For a moment, they were angry [at each other], but they went back to being friends,” the source said.
The pint-sized perps were slapped with felony assault charges and confessed to the despicable act while laughing about it in police custody.
“Numerous detectives told them to calm down. They thought it was a joke. They calmed down for a moment, but they went right back into it,” the source added.
Hernandez is slated to appear in Manhattan Family Court on Jan. 17. Rosario has a hearing scheduled for Jan. 26.
The judge can sentence them to anywhere from probation to custody until their 18th birthdays.
Hedges has said she bares no ill will toward the young goons. She worked in real estate but was best known for volunteering for groups like the Junior League, which named her “Outstanding Volunteer” of 2006.