Three men chased a 14-year-old boy into a Chelsea wine store, hit him with bottles of alcohol and threw merchandise at him, causing several hundred dollars worth of damage to the shop, law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation tell NBC 4 New York.
The teenager was walking by the Robert R. Fulton houses on West 16th Street May 29 when the three men approached him, the sources said.
They asked him, "What house?", and the boy answered, "Chelsea," the sources said.
The three men then started beating up the teen and the boy ran into the wine store to try to escape, the sources said.
A 20-year-old man was charged with second-degree gang assault in the attack, and sources say the other two suspects remain on the loose.
The extent of the boy's injuries weren't clear, but they weren't believed to be severe.
