The first suspect has been arrested in a pair of racially-motivated pellet-gun shootings earlier this month in Central Park.
Edward Fall, 20, of Morningside Heights, was charged late Saturday with assault and reckless endangerment as hate crimes in the non-fatal attacks, which police said were committed by a group of black suspects against white joggers.
In the earlier attack, at 9 p.m. on Sunday, August 17, a 34 year old male suffered a pellet gun shot to the head as he jogged on Central Park North and the East Drive.
In the second attack, a 36-year-old woman was shot in the back of her head as she jogged on West Drive near 60th Street around midnight on Aug. 18.
The woman told cops she turned and saw a group of five black people — three men and two women — “laughing and making anti-white statements,”