Kid shot & paralyzed over Marmot "biggie" coat @ Bryant Park VOL Hurtlocker coat makin waves in NY

[ninjahood]

[h1]Marmot Mammoth’s ‘Biggie’ coat linked to city shooting violence[/h1]
By Frank Rosario and Amber Sutherland

November 11, 2013 | 4:46am

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The Marmot Mammoth "Biggie" parka sparked Saturday's shooting at Bryant Park.

Photo: www.paragonsports.com

This coat is to die for.

The popular parka that sparked Saturday night’s shooting at the Bryant Park skating rink was previously linked to the murders of two city teens — enough bloodshed to prompt its manufacturer to pull the plug on it and leave the only city store selling it to get rid of its last ones.

In January, Raphael Ward, 16, of the Lower East Side, was gunned down by a masked man after refusing to hand over his  coat — also known as the “Biggie.”

Two years earlier, Malik Jenkins, 18, of The Bronx, was struck and killed by two cars while trying to escape a gang demanding his “Biggie.”

Marmot Mountain LLC discontinued the product — according to a worker at Paragon Sports near Union Square, which once sold the goose-down-filled coat with detachable hood for $680 — after word of the deadly violence got back to the manufacturer.

“They sold really well, but the company didn’t want to be associated with that,” the worker said. “They didn’t want the negative attention.”

Store employees noted that some bought the coat for its big pockets — to stash guns and drugs in.

On Sunday, Paragon had only one “Biggie” left in stock: a purple, triple-extra-large model marked down to a mere $200.

“We put the rest on sale to move them out,” one worker said. “Paragon doesn’t want to affiliate itself with an item that’s going to cause violence.”

Marmot didn’t return an e-mail seeking comment.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/11/marmot-mammoths-biggie-coat-linked-to-city-shooting-violence/

 

[ninjahood]

[h1]Notorious 'Biggie' jacket has set off much jealousy-driven violence in New York[/h1][h2]The utilitarian down jacket — $700 object of alleged shooter Corey Dunton’s desire — was the cause of bloodshed in at least two previous instances.[/h2]Comments (40)[h3]By Corinne Lestch / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS[/h3][h5]Sunday, November 10, 2013, 10:59 PM[/h5]

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The Marmot Mammoth Jacket is filled with down, has a zip-off hood and boasts lots of pockets — all for about $700 or $800. It's also a status symbol among teens in New York, leading to shootings like the one in Bryant Park on Saturday.

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Corey Dunton's alleged shooting spree at Bryant Park on Saturday was not the first time bullets went flying in New York because of the Marmot Mammoth coat, also known as “the Biggie.”

The utilitarian down jacket, which usually runs between $700 and $800, was the cause of bloodshed in at least two previous instances.

RELATED: COPS CHARGE FACEBOOK-HAPPY TEEN FOR BRYANT PARK SHOOTING

Raphael Ward, 16, was shot in the chest earlier this year on the Lower East Side during a scuffle with a group of teens who coveted his coat.

The 11th-grader had just bought the jacket.

RELATED: TEEN SAID TO ADMIT ROLE IN COAT MURDER

Malik Jenkins, a high school senior, was struck by two cars in 2010 after a Bronx trio tried to steal his coat.

All three men were indicted in 2011 for the 18-year-old’s murder.

RELATED: INDICTED FOR CHASING TEEN TO HIS DEATH

The coat was mysteriously discontinued last year, a Paragon Sports sales rep told the Daily News.

The rest of the coats in stock went on clearance for $200, and sold out a few weeks ago, the rep said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-nyc-violence-article-1.1512688#ixzz2kX9j1d9g

 

[big meech]

Dudes been getting murked in the city for biggies now they wanna pull the plug on them?

 

[SC kid]

I f****** KNEW you was gonna make a thread on this


Complex did an article on "biggies" a few days ago that was pretty good.

RIP to the kid tho smh

 

[isnx2]

Wow, killing youngins for they marm.
Smh

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

This is wild

 

[rocman23]

it's all because of the dude getting wop on the 6 train. kids trying to catch that public neck

 

[ninjahood]

[h1]NYPD arrest 16-year-old who 'tried to steal rare 'Biggie' coat' from another man before opening fire on packed Bryant Park skating rink[/h1]

• Coret Dunton, 16, has been arrested and taken in custody at a Manhattan police station following a shooting last night at Manhattan's Bryant Park skating rink
• Three shots rang out at 11pm on the ice in Bryant Park during busy skating session
• One of two victims identified as Adonis Mera, 14, who was skating with his friends and sister

By Snejana Farberov

PUBLISHED: 17:16 EST, 10 November 2013 | UPDATED: 13:40 EST, 11 November 2013

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Alleged Shooter: Corey Dunton, 16, has been arrested by NYPD following the shooting at Bryant Park's skating rink last night in Manhattan which has left a 14-year-old boy paralyzed

A New York teenager has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly opened fire at skaters in Manhattan's Bryant Park and then seemed to confess to the crime on Facebook.

During an hour-long standoff at his Bronx apartment on Sunday morning, Corey Dunton, 16, wrote on the social media website: 'Feds trien [sic] kick down my door its over were do i go from hereeeee...[I don't know] wat to do i f----ed up.'

Minutes later, he added: 'These n----s gunna have to take me out take my life … I aint goin to jail i reather [sic] take my life!!'

The alleged gang member is accused of shooting two men at the ice rink because of a dispute with another man over a coveted 'biggie' jacket he was wearing.

When police began banging on his door at around 8 a.m., he posted: 'Feds at my door Im goin out with a bang!!!!!!! take my soul.'

He is suspected to be a member of the Bloods gang and was taken to the Midtown South precinct house in Manhattan where he refused to answer questions and demanded a lawyer.

The teenager allegedly fired on Javier Contreras, 20, of the Bronx, but in doing so hit Adonis Mera, 14, of Manhattan who now faces being paralyzed from the waist down.

Police believe that Contreras was targeted for the particular Marmot Mammoth 'biggie' jacket he was wearing and was shot in the hand and the hips.

A source with the NYPD confirmed that Contreras and Dunton knew each other.

The arrest of Dunton comes after the distraught family of 14-year-old Mera expressed their fears he will never walk again.

Currently being held in Bellevue Hospital in a critical but stable condition, Mera's brother Jorge Arias told the New York Daily News he visited to see his injured sibling.

'I didn’t really try to get him to speak,' Arias, 24, said. 'I just wanted to see his face. He’s a baby. He’s a little kid.'

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Facebook: The alleged shooter took to Facebook early Sunday morning in a series of posts including the above

Detained for questioning: Corey Dunton is suspected by the NYPD of carrying out the shooting at Bryant Park skating rink that left two people hospitalized

Harrowing scene: Twitter user Raghuram Krishnamachari shared this image of paramedics attending to two people who were shot while skating on the ice rink in Bryant Park

Dispute: NYPD believe that Corey Dunton entered into an argument with Javier Contreras, 20, of the Bronx, over a particular style of jacket

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Panic as gunman opens fire at popular ice rink

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Contreras was approached by the gunman and asked to hand over his jacket. When he refused the shooter left the rink but returned minutes later to unleash three gunshots - hitting both Contreras and Mera.

This is not the first time the puffy 'biggie' jacket has become a source of problem in New York.

The jacket, which costs $600, is believed to be the source of a scuffle in the Lower East Side earlier this year which led to Raphael Ward, 16, being shot in the chest over the coast.

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The coat was discontinued by Paragon Sports last year and as such has become a desirable and rare piece of fashion.

The shocking incident happened just after 11pm Saturday, on the skating rink in the heart of the popular midtown park located at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue.

Desirable: Police believe that Contreras was targeted for the particular Marmot Mammoth 'biggie' jacket - which are no longer made and retailed for $600

Witnesses of the harrowing incident took to Twitter to share their accounts and photos from the crime scene.

‘People just fell on the floor because they heard a gunshot and they had ice skating skates on so they couldn’t run,’ said Raghuram Krishnamachar, 29, of Brooklyn, who was eating dinner with his girlfriend and her family at the park’s second-floor restaurant Celsius.

‘People were scared they didn’t know what was going on,’ he said.

Krishnamachar said he heard three shots ring out and saw skaters down below scramble for safety, while one person lay motionless on the rink. He posted a photo of the scene on Twitter.

He said restaurant patrons were told to lie on the floor and eventually were ushered to a back room.

‘We didn’t know anything. The shooter could’ve been a lunatic with a machine gun,’ he said.

Full house: The free-admission ice rink was teeming with skaters just moments before gunfire erupted

Gunned down: Police say one of the victims was hit in the back while the other was struck in the leg

A witness told the New York Times Saturday night that he saw a man skate up to another person in the middle of the rink, pull a gun and open fire.

In total, three shots reportedly rang out, sending park goers running for cover, some of them wearing only socks.

A young woman believed to be a victim's sister was heard exclaiming, ‘My brother 'just got shot in front of my face.'

Christopher Guerrero, 19, said one of the victims was a friend named Adonis, identified by MailOnline as Adonis Mera.

Victim: One of the Bryant Park shooting victims has been identified as Adonis Mera

Skating enthusiast: Shortly before the shooting, Mera posted a message on his Facebook page saying that Bryant Park was crowded

Mera's friend who witnessed the shooting said the teen told him he could not feel his legs

According to Mr Guerrero, the teenager told him he could not feel his legs as he was lying on the ice.

On his Facebook account, Mera posted a message Friday about his weekend plans: 'Catch me at Bryant Park!!'

Shorty before the shooting, the boy wrote on his page that the park was packed with people.

Early Sunday morning, Mera's numerous friends and well-wishers took to Twitter to post messages of support for the injured young man. 

Arelis Marie wrote: 'The fact that people can't go ice skating without someone tryna catch a body is crazy! Pull through Adonis, we're praying for you.'

Terrifying moment: A paramedic is attending to Adonis Mera, who was shot on the ice rink

First aid: Mera was loaded into a waiting ambulance with his skates still on and rushed to Bellevue Hospital

NYPD officers converged on the park after receiving reports of shots fired and quarantined some 50  skaters, who were later released after being questioned by police.

Joe Carella, a spokesman for Bryant Park Corporation, the not-for-profit company that privately manages the park, said the park is virtually crime free.

In the 1970s, Bryant Park, like much of Midtown Manhattan, had been taken over by drug dealers, prostitutes and homeless people and was considered a no-go zone by law-abiding city dwellers.

The park went through a massive overhaul in the late 80s, emerging as an exemplary urban green space after a 4-year renovation, which was praised by Time Magazine as a ‘small miracle.’

Manhunt: Police are searching for a suspect with dreadlocks and a red hoodie

Quarantine: Police secured the rink and questioned the park goers before letting them leave

These days, the park is packed with office workers on fair-weather weekdays, tourists and families on the weekends and ice skating enthusiasts during the winter months.

In 2005, Bryant Park introduced Citi Pond - a free ice skating rink that became a fixture in the Manhattan holiday scene. It is open until midnight on the weekends.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-Bryant-Park-skating-rink.html#ixzz2kXC5wIPV
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[bruce negro]

Wow, I literally worked right across the street from BP over the summer. I wonder if my co-workers heard the shots or saw the commotion.

 

[Arthur Shelby]

Reckless robbers / shooters going for clothing is way to common

When did Marmot jackets make this jump back in corner store fashion its a BX thing ?

 

[ninjahood]

I f****** KNEW you was gonna make a thread on this

Complex did an article on "biggies" a few days ago that was pretty good.
 

[h1]A Jacket to Die for: Selling Marmot Biggies in NYC[/h1]By Noah Johnson | Nov 11, 2013 | 2:24 pm | Permalink

Image via Frankie's Apartment

Written by Noah Johnson.

My first job out of college was at Paragon Sports, just outside of Union Square. It was 2005. I'd been living in Colorado spending most of my time snowboarding, doing other outdoorsy things, so I was well- qualified for the job of selling high-end sporting equipment to overpaid yuppies. I took the job hoping I'd meet backcountry skiers or mountain climbers and help outfit them for their next expedition.

But that's not exactly how it went down. 

"We'll put you on outerwear," my manager told me on day one. I wanted to be in the sneaker or snowboarding department, but it was early fall, and with winter coming, I was told that I'd make a much better commission in outerwear. "Selling big boys," he said.

It never occurred to me that I was the last link in a chain that had an occasionally lethal end.

A big boy, or biggie, I learned, is the street name for the Marmot Mammoth Parka, a heavyweight down jacket with a Gore-Tex shell. They came in a few different colors—that year the most popular was slate blue—and cost around $700. For each one we sold, I got $7 or $8, nearly double what I'd make for the next highest commission item (a technical ski jacket from Arc'Teryx that almost no one ever so much as tried on).

It was rare I'd meet any sort of athlete. Almost all of my sales were to European tourists, old people who get very cold in the winter, and young black kids looking for biggies, or Marmots. They were the biggest and most expensive jackets on the floor. I often encouraged these customers to consider a more practical piece. 

"It really doesn't ever get cold enough in New York to need a 700 fill down jacket," I'd advise them. "If it's cold enough for a jacket this heavy, you won't need a Gore-Tex shell because it'll be snowing, not raining." 

I wonder if I might have sold a jacket to a kid who died for it.

But those who were looking for a biggie didn't care about my outerwear knowledge or sensibly battling the elements.

They just wanted to know if I had it in XXL or XXXL. If we didn't have it in stock (a rare occurrence; Paragon's stockroom seemed to have an endless supply, and very few in size medium or smaller), they'd leave without considering anything else.

When I did make a sale, I was happy to get the commission. Still, though, I thought it was odd that Marmot would make a piece with no sports application exclusively for Paragon, and sell it for so much, and make so many in such big sizes, but it didn't seem immoral. 

Years later, when I hear that there have been terrible  violent  crimes linked to biggies, I wonder if I might have sold a jacket to a kid who died for it. At the time I knew how coveted they were, and I knew about kids getting jumped or worse for Starter jackets and Jordans, but I didn't think Marmots had that power. 

As a writer for Noisey pointed out, the reviews  on Paragon's site warn potential buyers "this is not the coat for yu if yu live in NYC yu will get robbed." Turns out, the crucial facts about this jacket were beyond my area of expertise. I was a retail employee and I was just doing my job. I never considered the possible repercussions of a sale. In the same way that a fast food restaurant worker slinging deadly doses of fat to the masses doesn't think twice about putting money in the register, I was happy to put my little commission sticker on all those Marmot price tags. It never occurred to me that I was the last link in a chain that had an occasionally lethal end. 

http://www.complex.com/style/2013/11/jacket-to-die-for-marmot-biggie

 

[polo sport nyc]

uptown cats.... smh

 

[soleasian]

is marmot really that serious? i dont see that many ppl rocking them and it's more older ppl when i do see it

 

[knowledgebones72]

I knew black kids in the DMV were on Marmots,

but i didn't think they were a big deal outside of the area.

Just looked this coat up, and the young black/latino youth killing people for this jacket are playing right into the hands of those who want them dead or in jail.

 

[fontaine]

Them jackets look lame though...

Inb4 new Yorkers clown me for having an opinion

Smh @ the young'ns feeling they have to go this route...

But son.. .

Posting on Facebook? Like... I don't think people realize when they post on Facebook...

That they're posting on Facebook...

 

[polo sport nyc]

is marmot really that serious? i dont see that many ppl rocking them and it's more older ppl when i do see it

in the winter time in harlem its OUT OF CONTROL!!!!

first time i saw one was in 00 and i was like what the hell is that thing... and copped the first northface snorkel instead

 

[ninjahood]

Reckless robbers / shooters going for clothing is to way common

When did Marmot jackets make this jump back in corner store fashion

its a BX thing ?

marmots aka merms been steadily rising in popularity since i was still in high school in 2003, back then marmot only had 1 style, and it was da marmot parka GORE-TEX

**** was 700 dollar back in da jersey era, and basically da only people who had em in my school were da dudes who sold drugs or had a retail gig on da side, i wasn't sold

on em back then, still in actually tried one on a few years later, once i realized da hype da legit (they're MAAAAAAD WARM) i copped a black goretex one.

for da record, they made a base model version of da marmot parka with NO goretex and less fill called a Marmot White Horse for a few years, but they discontinued

it, that particular model was called a marmot white horse.

and i guess 2012 was da last year they still made da GORETEX marmot.

only da GORETEX version of da marmot is refered to as da "biggie" aka Big Boy, cuz it was da most expensive, and warmest one with da best specs, all others aren't known

as a bigboy/biggie

tell you what, da IronMerm is ready to take its place if they discontinued da parka...

and all those goretex marmot coats still out WILL start going for more cake they start to become more rarer and rarer...

da one i own was from 2010, they would make SLIGHT changes to em every year to differentiate em.

 

[dankenstien88]

Ugly Lands End looking old man coats :x

 

[dathbgboy]

for a coat that cost that much, I could've went right to Burlington, copped a military grade peacoat and still had about $450 left over to ball out in there

 

[solecity]

Killing each other over some Skittle looking attire.

Those coats are ugly as hell.

 

[ninjahood]

uptown cats.... smh

yea marmots was always a uptown thing, especially harlem.

north face for example became a "Spanish thing" as funny as that sounds (da papi shampoo k steezy types would gravitate towards steep techs & summit series)

and da uptown & BX blacks with a couple of ricans would hop on da Marmots.

 

[you go boy]

I feel bad for this kid but he should have gave up the jacket because they were going to shoot him regardless

 

[ayzee]

 

 

[derryj3]

I f****** KNEW you was gonna make a thread on this


Complex did an article on "biggies" a few days ago that was pretty good.

RIP to the kid tho smh

THIS , yeah I read the article yesterday on dailymail.co.uk and just KNEW Ninjahood was gonna make this lol

 

[ohmygosher]

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