Long before prosecutors accused seven Patchogue-Medford High School students of taking part in a fatal, ethnically motivated attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant, the teens went on a yearlong campaign to batter and terrorize Latinos all over their community, according to an indictment unsealed in Riverhead Wednesday. In small groups with shifting members, the teens sent one Hispanic man after another to the hospital with injuries, prosecutors said. Here, according to the new indictments, are just a few highlights from 13 violent months: Last July, at least two of the teens beat a Hispanic man unconscious, stealing his money and shoes. In December, three of them harassed and menaced a lone Hispanic man with a pipe, telling him, “You’re dead.” In MORE
