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Article: `Nice Kids' and `Outsiders': The View From Howard Beach
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- The Washington Post
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- February 18, 1987
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The teen-agers hanging out at the Big Bow Wow Deli and Games room
were all agreed. What happened to Bobby Riley, Thomas Gucciardo or
Michael Pirone could have happened to any of them.
Last week, Riley, a corrections officer's son who liked to
organize sidewalk softball games, was charged with second-degree
murder. Gucciardo, nicknamed "the Gooch," was charged with attempted
murder. And Pirone, who regularly attended Sunday mass at the local
Roman Catholic Church, was accused of assault and riot.
The indictments against the three 17-year-olds were among 12
issued by a grand jury investigating the Dec. 20 attack on three
blacks whose car broke down here in Howard Beach, a secluded ...