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   From: benghazi@hillaryclinton.com   
      
   The wife of a motorcyclist who was hit by an SUV during a melee involving   
   20 to 30 bikers said her husband is paralyzed from the waist down and may   
   never walk again.   
      
   Dayana Mejia told ABC News today that her husband was struck by a Range   
   Rover, setting off a confrontation between the driver and motorcyclists   
   taking part in a group ride in New York City on Sunday.   
      
   The SUV driver fled the scene of an initial fender bender after feeling   
   intimidated, police said. The group of motorcyclists chased him and then   
   bashed in the windows of the Range Rover, dragged him out into the street,   
   and beat him up while his wife and 2-year-old child watched from the SUV,   
   police said.   
      
   Two of the motorcyclists involved in the confrontation are in custody, one   
   of whom has been charged, according to New York police officials.   
      
   Law enforcement sources confirmed the driver of the Range Rover was   
   Alexian Lien. Lien received minor injuries and police are searching for   
   suspects involved in his assault, they said.   
      
   Mejia's husband, Edwin Mieses, 32, a father of two and an audio engineer,   
   is in critical condition at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York   
   following Sunday's incident.   
      
   In an emotional interview, Mieses' mother, Yolanda Santiago, told ABC News   
   that Lien should be charged with reckless endangerment.   
      
   "My son is fighting for his life. The Range Rover plowed right over him,''   
   Santiago said through tears on the front porch of her Lawrence, Mass.,   
   home.   
      
   "He's never going to be the same Jay he was,'' said Santiago, referring to   
   her son by his nickname. Then she began to weep into her hands. "Why   
   hasn't the driver been charged with reckless endangerment? He endangered   
   his own child."   
      
   Mieses' wife also expressed anger at Lien.   
      
   "I blame him. And what I even blame him more for is he's out, he's not   
   even charged, and he's the 'victim,'" Mejia said.   
      
   "His spine is crushed. All the ribs on this side are broken," she said,   
   motioning to her left side. "He's a survivor but he's paralyzed from the   
   waist down."   
      
   The confrontation began when the group of motorcyclists, out for an annual   
   ride in Manhattan, surrounded Lien's Range Rover and slowed down. One   
   biker cut off the Range Rover in traffic and then slowed his speed even   
   further, and the Range Rover then bumped into the bike.   
      
   New York City police said today that the driver of that motorcycle was   
   Christopher Cruz of Passaic, N.J., who was arrested. A second   
   motorcyclist, Allen Edwards, turned himself into police in Queens today   
   for questioning and is in custody, police said.   
      
   Cruz has been charged with reckless endangerment, acting in manner   
   injurious to a child, menacing and reckless driving, police said.   
      
   The initial accident caused the bikers to slow down, checking on Cruz and   
   yelling and gesturing at the Range Rover. The driver of the Range Rover   
   then took off from the group at a high speed, barreling through the   
   motorcyclists and hitting three of them, police said.   
      
   One of the men Lien hit was Mieses, according to his wife.   
      
   "He should have not run away," said Mejia. "He should have known he wanted   
   to help the person on the floor. By running away, all you're doing is   
   getting them upset like you're trying to flee the scene."   
      
   "He still has bumper marks on his forehead,'' Mieses' brother Ray Cepeda   
   told ABC News.   
      
   The rest of the bikers then chased Lien's Range Rover up the West Side   
   Highway and onto the Henry Hudson Parkway, where they bashed his car with   
   their helmets, dragged Lien out of the vehicle and beat him.   
      
   The man being questioned by police is thought to be responsible for   
   pulling the Range Rover's driver out of the vehicle, cops said.   
      
   The entire confrontation was captured on a six-minute helmet-cam video   
   taken by one of the bikers and uploaded to the Internet.   
      
   Police are now combing through the video and witness accounts to find   
   other suspects involved in the attack.   
      
   The NYPD distributed a still from the video of two suspects wanted in the   
   assault on the driver and said that one bike had a flag sticker of Guyana   
   on the back. The drivers are still being sought.   
      
   Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Monday that the driver would not face   
   charges for hitting bikers, including Mieses, as he fled.   
      
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/nyc-motorcycle-attack-bikers-wife-   
   walk/story?id=20430576   
      
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