Last week, a 22-year-old Pratt student was robbed and brutally beaten at Grand and Lexington Avenues in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill section. Eddy Sanchez had been walking towards to the Pratt campus around 10 p.m. last Tuesday night when, WCBS 2 reports, five teens surrounded him—"They demanded money, and when Sanchez initially refused, the suspects punched and kicked him into submission, and took what they wanted." The Daily News adds that one teen used a crowbar to beat him when he tried to fight back. Now Sanchez is in a coma at Kings County Hospital.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "The motivation was robbery. His credit cards were taken from him, and the credit cards were subsequently used." Surveillance video also captured some of the teens using Sanchez's ATM card to withdraw cash.
Sanchez's mother Betty, who, with her husband, flew from Miami to be with their son, told the News, "I want everyone to pray for him. There's a God who loves him very much. I'm confident Eddy is going to pull through." The Local has a photograph of the scene after the attack: A blood stain, a candle and a sign near it saying, "THIS IS NOT ALRIGHT."
