Derrion Albert.
Albert was killed in a melee near the school that police believe is a continuation of ongoing tensions between Fenger students that are members of rival gangs. Albert was knocked unconscious when he was struck in the head with a board and a second person punched him in the face. Albert regained consciousness and was trying to get up when he was attacked a second time by five people.
Albert's mom said witnesses told her that her son "was trying to help another student and kind of got mixed in with the crowd of the fight and he was hit."
Prosecutors charged four teenagers Monday with fatally beating Albert, who was walking to a bus stop when he got caught up in the mob street fighting, authorities said.
The violence stemmed from a shooting early Thursday morning involving two groups of students from different neighborhoods, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County prosecutor's office. When school ended, members of the groups began fighting near the Agape Community Center.
Prosecutors charged Silvonus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, Eric Carson, 16, and Eugene Bailey, 18, with first-degree murder, Simonton said.
Chicago police said they were looking for at least three more suspects, but would not discuss a possible motive for the attack.
Fenger students said Albert's death intensified tensions at the school, with arguments about him breaking out in hallways all day Monday. Several blocks away, a memorial erected on the spot where he was beaten was burned down. Police also increased patrols before and after school and in the neighborhood.
"They're still trying to retaliate," said sophomore Toni Gardner, 15. She did not elaborate.
For Chicago, a sharp rise in violent student deaths during the past three school years — most from shootings off school property — have been a tragedy and an embarrassment.
Before 2006, an average of 10-15 students were fatally shot each year. That climbed to 24 fatal shootings in the 2006-07 school year, 23 deaths and 211 shootings in the 2007-08 school year and 34 deaths and 290 shootings last school year.
But Annette Holt, mother of Blair Holt, a Chicago Public Schools student who was shot on a city bus two years ago, said Albert represented "another promising future, just snuffed out because of violence."
"Someone said he (Derrion) was in the wrong place at the wrong time," she said. "No, he wasn't. He was in the right place. He was coming from school."
Source: Associated Press.
Really sad.
6 comments:
its time they take action against this gang crap in black america.I heard Nas wrote a letter to them.they need more artsiste like Jay Z and co to tell them that this attitude wont get them anywhere.Artiste too need to stop promoting violence, money and sex in their videos.A lot of boys dont have fathers to look up to.The women too should stop opening their legs to every Jamal,Tyrone and Lamar,..the men too should stop sticking their dick into every tiquana, lashonda they see.This,I believe is the root cause of the problem is having kids out of wedlock and then the men absond.The woman has to work 10 jobs cant look after the kids, then they join street gangs and the vicious circle continues.
It is hightime the chicago security operatives do their work properly and the criminals must be prosecuted accordingly
This is a sad story but it happens all of the time in many places around the world. I think poverty and the lack of education is the main cause for this.
Black on black crime!!! Hightime Blacks stop talking and start bringing up responsible men and women. It is such a shame!!!!
This is just to show that a Nigger would always be nigger. Those kids should all be put to death for their actions......I don’t understand why blacks are the way we are, we do not congratulate anything good instead we destroy our self and let minorities(Caucasians)insult us…….. I really don’t have any regards for those kids who performed this act and I hope they give them the death penalty. (blastmode)
Lilian and Anonymous it all goes back to poverty and the lack of education. Anon, name calling isn't going to change the situation because whether the kids succeed or not they will still be seen as a N#@$$ to the people who hate them because in many countries blacks are not the majority.
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