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Waiter describes attack by 4 teens in Patchogue

Jeffrey Conroy, 17, front, and other teens arrested

Photo credit: James Carbone | Jeffrey Conroy, 17, front, and other teens arrested in a hate crime killing, are led out of a police station for their arraignment in Central Islip. Conroy is accused of being the stabber in the hate crime. (Nov. 10, 2008)

A Patchogue restaurant worker told a Riverhead jury Tuesday that he feared for his life when four teenagers attacked him as he walked home from work on Nov. 8, 2008.

"I was afraid and started running like hell," said Hector Sierra, 57, head waiter at the Gallo Tropical Restaurant in Patchogue.

The teenagers attacked Sierra, of Patchogue, the same night that a gang attacked Marcelo Lucero,...

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