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EVER Y.MAC 036 60,4.2 Sunday, May 25, 1986 DAILY NEWS 3 "It could have been a stray bullet from somewhere or debris kicked up by a passing car." Residents said they heard what sounded like a gunshot seconds before Aurelio crumpled to the ground. But fireworks also were being set off on the street at the time. police said. Yesterday, Bertha, 40. stood with her 44-year-old husband and fought back tears as they looked at the bloodstains spattered acros: the stoop of their one-family home on Euclid Ave.

"There's no words to explain how I feel," said Felix. a butcher at a Bronx meatpacking plant, speaking in hushed tones. "I agreed with my wife that something good had to come out of it." Mrs. Martinez, her eyes red from hours of crying, up socks from the floor near her son's bed in their small one-family home. "He was so little; he slept with us," she said pointing to the small bed diagonally across from the double bed where she and her husband sleep.

A large teddy bear, plastic robots, a He-Man figure and a small toy pistol were scattered around the second floor room. The mother winced when she looked at the toys and then hurried from the room. Student of the month Aurelio was described by his parents as a good student at nearby Blessed Sacrament School who was looking forward to his 6th birthday on June 9. "He was student of the month in March," said the mother. "I don't know what happened.

I saw him fall down in front of me and I carried him into the house." she said. "He was a healthy boy," said the mother. "I decided that I. would give my son's organs so that other children may live." While family members coped with their grief yesterday, police scoured nearby streets and canvassed area residents for clues to the death. Cops want to question a group of older kids, aged about 8 to 14, who were seen arguing across the street at the time of the incident.

He'll live 00 30 on 611 in others B'klyn boy's organs to be donated by parents By MIKE SANTANGELO It could have been a bullet organs might be gifts of life old sister, Audrey, and some and RUBEN ROSARIO that ended the life of little to other children in need of friends in front of his parAurelio Martinez. Yesterday, transplants. ents' East New York home. Daily News Staff Writers nobody knew for sure what it He suddenly fell, bleeding Their 5-year-old son that him Recipients from the back of his head. scanned was the victim of one of was struck in the Doctors from Downstate head as he played outside his Medical Center He was taken to Brookthose senseless acci- home.

lists spent of yester- dale Hospital, but nothing the day checking poten- could be done for him. dents that happen on When the doctors told tial organ recipients around Police say X-rays showed a streets of the city. But them that Aurelio was brain- the nation. Aurelio was re- bone fracture caused by an Felix and Bertha Mar- dead, that he was lying in a moved from the life support unknown metal object tinez still found a way to coma from which he could system in the late afternoon embedded in the brain. shape their grief into a not recover, Felix and and was officially pro- Gunshot, fireworks? Bertha gave their permission nounced dead at 5:25 p.m.

gift of love in Brooklyn for the respirator to be dis- Late Friday night, Aurelio "We don't know what it yesterday. connected so that Aurelio's was playing with his 13-year- was that struck him," said Sgt. Raymond O'Donnell, a Police Department spokesman. "It could have been a Aurelio Martinez PARENTS Felix and Bertha Martinez hold composite picture of son, Aurelio, killed playing in front of house. GRIEVING CARMINE United they stand on aid 2.5 million expected coast to coast By CHARLES W.

BELL Daily News Staff Writer And now, live, from coast to coast, it's Hand Aid, the flashy, star spangled, high stepping, blissed-out bash that will briefly unite more 'men, women and children than any single charity event in history. At least 2.5 million people, among them prison in- HELPING HANDS An editorial PAGE 55 mates, Hell's Angels, nuns, entire baseball teams, every. body at the White House, every worshiper in the Crystal Cathedral and a mile of kids from Staten Island, will hold hands and sing in a single but broken George Washington Bridge Amy 8 Ave. 12th 1 route ISOM Battery Park ROUTE is closed to traffic between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

TOM NEWS Many hands will be folded human chain reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific: The organizers, the same people who pulled together the "We Are the World" extravaganza, had hoped for 5.5 million people for every mile of the route. But yesterday, they conceded they would fall far, far short. But, hey, not to worry. Lengths of red and white rope will link the Hands Across America chain in the arid, broiling outback of the Southwest, where there aren't enough people to close the gap. "We're talking symbolic," said a spokesman for CocaCola, one of the major corporate supporters of the project.

It starts promptly at 3,4 See HANDS Page 31 By TONY BURTON Daily News Staff Writer FORREST CITY, Ark. Down at the A Cut Above unisex beauty parlor, Joan. Boren was preparing to snip the shaggy locks of homebuilder Barry Emerson yesterday. They were old friends but there was a smidgen of tension in the scented air of the little shop on Division St. The fact was that young Barry was not planning to hold onto anybody's hand today on Route 70 as part of the Hands Across America fund-raiser.

"I don't see as how it's See AMERICA Page 31.