Is this true?
The NYS criminal justice system can be a sick joke at times.
The kid is a minor so he’ll basically get away with it. Won’t be tried as an adult, etc. He’ll be a guest of the state at some gladiator academy though for an indeterminate period.
Whatever he pleas to will dictate where this all ends up. Then you have the mitigating circumstances, only had one mother and father, turns state on his accomplices, gets Alvin Sharpton for a lawyer, etc.