Central Park 5 Part 1.
Central Park Five Part 1. Ava DuVernay shed new light on the 30-year-old case of the Central Park Five with her Netflix miniseries, When They See Us. The scripted series is based on the true story of the “Central Park Five,” a group of five teenagers wrongly accused and convicted of a crime they didn't commit. Now, they're known as the “Exonerated Five,” since the real assailant was found in 2002. Who are the Central Park Five? In 1989, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana Jr., and Korey Wise (who later changed his name to Kharey) were in Central Park on April 19—the night a white female jogger, Trisha Meili, was raped and severely beaten. All five were Black or Latinx teenagers from Harlem between the ages of 14 and 16. What happened to the Central Park Five? Simply put, they were wrongly accused—and convicted—of raping and beating Meili, then a 28-year-old investment banker who fell into a coma after the attack. When she woke up,