Two-Sided Story

At the preliminary hearing a week lat-
er, according to Radzinski's mother Pam,
bail was set at $40,000.
On Aug. 27, bail was reduced to
$15,000 and Zora was released.
'The defense attorney (Kirsten Nielsen
Hartig) called for an emergency bond
hearing, showing that Zora has ties to
the community," Oakland County Assis-
tant Prosecutor Scott Hamilton said. "It's
not something that is unusual."
Zora, according to his attorney, is a star
athlete and honor student at Oak Park
High who's on track to graduate one year
early. He works two jobs totalling 60
hours a week, Hartig said, with much
of the money given to help the family. He
was born at Providence Hospital in
Southfield and his mother is an Ameri-
can citizen.
Hartig tells a different version of what
happened.
"It was two teens getting into an ar-
gument over ethnicity," she said. "There
were racial slurs made to Zora and his
friends in the car. My client threw a
punch in self-defense."
According to the statement given to
the Farmington Hills police from one of
the passengers in Zora's car, Zora "began
beating the kid [Radzinski] up. [The wit-

A teen-age scuffle quickly turns ugly in Farmington Hills.

LONNY GOLDSMITH STAFF WRITER

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n Aug. 13, Jay Radzinski and his
friends went out for an ordinary
Slurpee run to the 7-11 on Orchard
Lake Road at 13 Mile. They were
three friends, hanging out and enjoying
the waning days of their summer vaca-
tion.
Until the moment a green Jeep Chero-
kee pulled up beside them.
"I was looking at the car because it
looked familiar," Radzinski explained. "A
car pulls into the parking lot, you look
and see if it's someone you know."
The seemingly innocent look turned
into a nightmare for the 16-year-old
North Farmington High School junior.
"He came up and asked me, 'What are
you looking at?' " Radzinski said. "I told
him, 'Nothing.'
The next and last thing Radzinski re-
membered was the hand of the Jeep dri-
ver, 16-year-old Oak Park High School

student Simon Zora, wrapping around
Radzinski's throat and slamming him
into a brick wall.
According to the police report, Zora
punched the unconscious Radzinski,
knocking him to the ground, and then al-
legedly kicked him "several times in the
face."
"I didn't feel anything once I was un-
conscious," Radzinski said. "I didn't know
I was getting punched or kicked. I don't
remember anything."
Shelby Berger, one of Radzinski's
friends at the scene, threw his body on
top of his friend, and Zora left the scene.
Steve Krasman, the other friend, ran into
Kinko's to call the police.
Zora was arrested later that evening
on a charge of assault with intent to
commit bodily harm less than murder.
He was released to the custody of his
mother.

Mrs. Zora said. "I don't care about a per-
son's religion, only if they are a good hu-
man being. She dislikes us because we
are Catholic."
Mrs. Zora said her son was taken to
a hospital following the incident for "his
hand being cut, and his head and body
being sore."
The pretrial hearing for the case will
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"The witness claims that he never
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