Bryant Park ‘shooter’ all but confessed online

Larry Celona, Jamie Schram and Bruce Golding nypost.com A 16-year-old suspected gang-banger virtually confessed to shooting two people over a coat at the Bryant Park skating rink as he ranted online about keeping the cops at bay and whether to kill himself, make the cops kill him or surrender Sunday. Posts from the Facebook page of alleged shooter Corey Dunton. “FEDS AT MY DOOR IM GOIN OUT WITH A BANG!!!!!!! TAKE MY SOUL,’’ Corey Dunton wrote on Facebook as police descended on his mom’s Bronx apartment, where he was hiding, around 8 a.m... Shortly after, Dunton meekly surrendered. He was charged Sunday night with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. Saturday night, Dunton had tried to mug Javier Contreras, 20, of Manhattan right on the Midtown rink’s ice, demanding the man’s Marmot Mammoth parka, known on the streets as a “Biggie,” sources said. Dunton wrote on Facebook early Friday that he was going to the park fully loaded. Modal Trigger“Bryant Park Looking To Litt Saterday Gotta Bring Da. amp,” he wrote, using the slang word “amp” for gun, law-enforcement sources said. His Facebook page showed him wearing red beads and holding his fingers in the shape of a pistol. But Contreras refused to hand over his $680 yellow-and-green jacket, prompting Dunton to storm off the ice, sources said. Dunton took off his skates and then went back to the rink’s railing and demanded Contreras’ jacket again, the source said. The pair didn’t know each other, sources said. But Contreras still refused to give in. When he skated around again in front of Dunton, the suspect fired three shots with a .22-caliber handgun, hitting Contreras in the hand and hip, a source said. Another skater, Adonis Mera, 14, of East Harlem also was struck — shot in the back and gravely wounded. A cellphone photo captured him tragically lying on the ice. A law-enforcement source said Sunday that it appears Mera will be permanently paralyzed by the bullet. He “has no feelings from the waist down,’’ Mera’s brother, Jorge Arias, 29, said early Sunday. to read more click here: nypost.com