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Article: Death Chase Described In Howard Beach Trial;Participant Testifies in Return for Leniency
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- The Washington Post
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- October 23, 1987
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In a thick, monotone Queens accent, Robert Riley described today
how he and his friends chased a black man to the edge of the Belt
Parkway in Howard Beach last December, testifying that he heard a
loud "thud" and saw the man's body "go up a couple of feet in the
air" when he was struck by a passing car.
Riley, 18, the prosecution's chief witness at his friends' trial,
said that he and four other white teen-agers had pursued Michael
Griffith to a roadside guard rail and that Griffith ran "straight
onto the Belt Parkway" where he was hit.
Riley said the chase began several blocks earlier when he and his
high school friends confronted three black men outside a pizzeria and
ran after them, ...
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Article: FOUR GO ON TRIAL TODAY IN HOWARD BEACH CASE.(Local)
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September 8, 1987 ;
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... ... walked into the white Howard Beach community in search of ... investigation of the Howard Beach attack to a grinding ... other survivor of the Howard Beach attack, Cedric Sandiford ... cooperation of Robert Riley, 18, one of the defendants ...
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