Black Thug in Brooklyn teacher attack nailed and linked to six more robberies

[Christian Zionist]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/06/13/2008-06-13_thug_in_brooklyn_teacher_attack_nailed_a-1.html





BY ALISON GENDAR, VERONIKA BELENKAYA and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Saturday, June 14th 2008, 2:02 AM

 DeCrescenzo for News
Mugging victim Patricia McGowan is escorted by police from her home in Staten Island Friday.

 DeCrescenzo for News
Eric Ferguson, 18, was taken into custody early Friday morning.

The cowardly punk who punched a 62-year-old Catholic school teacher in the face and stole her purse was arrested Friday - and promptly linked to six other robberies, police said.

Eric Ferguson, 18, ambushed Patricia McGowan outside the Good Shepherd School in Marine Park, Brooklyn, early Tuesday, cops said. Surveillance video captured the mugger attacking her from behind and pushing her through a metal gate topped with a cross before running off with her bag.

McGowan, who has taught at the school for 43 years, suffered bad bruises on the left side of her face. Her left eye was blackened and bloodshot, and her left cheek was swollen and purple from her eye to her jaw.

The sickening attack triggered a massive search for Ferguson, a juvenile delinquent facing charges for as many as four purse snatchings and two Chinese-food delivery robberies, including one in which the deliveryman was stabbed, police said.

Ferguson, who lives in Sheepshead Bay, was taken into custody at 6:30 a.m. at a friend's house in the Bronx. He was expected to be arraigned early today on charges including robbery, assault, larceny and car theft.

He had been arrested just last week for driving a stolen green minivan, but a Brooklyn judge released him on his own recognizance so his reign of terror - which allegedly started on May 15 with a purse snatching - was allowed to continue.

"I was so scared," said one of his victims, who asked that her name not be printed.

The woman was walking along Avenue U at 6:45 a.m. on June 2 when a man who was following her suddenly reached for her bag, she said.

"He pushed me, and I fell on my face and elbow," the woman said in Russian. "He dragged me with the bag. . . . The bag's strap [broke] and remained with me, and he took the bag."

"I'm afraid to walk down the street now," said the woman, who lost $100 in cash and a credit card that cops said Ferguson later used for a shopping spree. "I don't want to think about him - I want to forget the story like a nightmare."

Ferguson - who spent time at a school for troubled kids in Yonkers - was arrested wearing a pair of Nike Air Force 1 sneakers bought with a credit card stolen from a woman he robbed on May 30, police said.

He confessed to robbing a pair of Chinese-food deliverymen, one of whom he stabbed, on June 9 - the day before he attacked McGowan.

McGowan was opening a gate to the school at 6:40 a.m. when Ferguson hit the startled computer teacher in the face, slamming her through the gate and onto the ground, police said.

As the terrified teacher shielded herself with her hands, Ferguson snatched her purse and ran off, leaving McGowan sitting on the ground, holding her face.

Ferguson stole the teacher's car, a 2000 Toyota Corolla, but ditched it after driving a few blocks, cops said.

The savage attack was apparently the second time Ferguson struck at Good Shepherd. Cops said Friday night he also mugged a 19-year-old woman in the parking lot June 8.

McGowan changed the locks on her Staten Island house, leaving home only to go to the 61st Precinct stationhouse for a lineup.

"She's a wonderful, dedicated teacher," said Good Shepherd Principal Anthony Paparelli. "She's doing well, [but] she's still in a lot of pain," said Msgr. Thomas Brady, who added he expected that McGowan would forgive her attacker. "She's praying for him, I'm sure."

[Bruicy Kibbutz]

rofl crazy nignagz. His face was so clear on that tape 

[MasterWolf1]

Yes I saw this coward on video, and man how I would of loved to do the same thing to this s.o.b.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

But don't yew unduhrstayand? He was a vyktim--of racism! He is not accountable for his actions because he experienced racism his whole life! 

Twenty dollars says that will be his defense in court, and twenty dollars says the judge will allow it.

And a hundred bucks says that the judge who released him "on his own recognizance" is Jewish. 

[nopeaceforland]

Can I ask you guys something? Something that always makes me laugh: Are blacks born with that stupid look on their face or is it possible that there's 1 thing they can actually learn? It comes in handy when arrested!

[Ulli]

I wounder about this name: Eric Ferguson 

Such people have normally other names, which more savagely soundings.

[mord]

Like abdul kenyatta the third

[Ulli]

Like abdul kenyatta the third

Yes 

[Americanhero1]

But don't yew unduhrstayand? He was a vyktim--of racism! He is not accountable for his actions because he experienced racism his whole life! 

Twenty dollars says that will be his defense in court, and twenty dollars says the judge will allow it.

And a hundred bucks says that the judge who released him "on his own recognizance" is Jewish. 

Give me 5 Minutes And I will make him a Victim

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

I wounder about this name: Eric Ferguson 

Such people have normally other names, which more savagely soundings.

Might be Jamaican. Jamaicans have names like that.

[Mstislav]

But don't yew unduhrstayand? He was a vyktim--of racism! He is not accountable for his actions because he experienced racism his whole life! 

Twenty dollars says that will be his defense in court, and twenty dollars says the judge will allow it.

And a hundred bucks says that the judge who released him "on his own recognizance" is Jewish. 

Do you think slavery might be thrown into the mix?

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Do you think slavery might be thrown into the mix?

Wouldn't put it past them...

[Ulli]

I wounder about this name: Eric Ferguson 

Such people have normally other names, which more savagely soundings.

Might be Jamaican. Jamaicans have names like that.

I learned something new 

[Mstislav]

I wounder about this name: Eric Ferguson 

Such people have normally other names, which more savagely soundings.

Might be Jamaican. Jamaicans have names like that.

I learned something new 

So do blacks from the rest of the Caribean.

[Americanhero1]

The last name Ferguson is very popular name among blacks in the Bahamas

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

So do blacks from the rest of the Caribean.

Haitians have more French-sounding names because they used to be a colony of France. The Bahamas and Jamaica used to be English colonies.

Of course Cuban, Dominican, etc. blacks would have Spanish names.

[Mstislav]

So do blacks from the rest of the Caribean.

Haitians have more French-sounding names because they used to be a colony of France. The Bahamas and Jamaica used to be English colonies.

Of course Cuban, Dominican, etc. blacks would have Spanish names.

I should have been more specific.   

[spiritus_persona]

But don't yew unduhrstayand? He was a vyktim--of racism! He is not accountable for his actions because he experienced racism his whole life! 

Twenty dollars says that will be his defense in court, and twenty dollars says the judge will allow it.

And a hundred bucks says that the judge who released him "on his own recognizance" is Jewish. 

And twenty bucks says this ganja savage will get what's coming to him in the form of a lynch mob.

[Mstislav]

But don't yew unduhrstayand? He was a vyktim--of racism! He is not accountable for his actions because he experienced racism his whole life! 

Twenty dollars says that will be his defense in court, and twenty dollars says the judge will allow it.

And a hundred bucks says that the judge who released him "on his own recognizance" is Jewish. 

And twenty bucks says this ganja savage will get what's coming to him in the form of a lynch mob.

Maybe there will be a bon fire to celebrate after giving the perp what he is looking for.