21.   Investigators said Friday night that the five youths know one another each other from their Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, and possibly from school.

22.   Judge James Allendoerfer said the banishment of the two youths was supposed to be a cross-cultural experiment in the juvenile justice system.

23.   Lawyers for the other youth could not be reached.

24.   One key witness, student Dana Thomas, testified that she did not think the four youths were serious.

25.   She said her son barely knew the other youths.

26.   The crowd shouted insults at the four youths.

27.   The four youths were jobless high school dropouts who took inspiration for the siege from action movies filled with gunplay and pyrotechnics, friends told the police.

28.   The other two youths got away.

29.   The other youths are facing trial before Superior Court Judge Gregory Martin.

30.   The parents of the two youths had hired lawyers and had not spoken with investigators since last Wednesday, Davis said..