Chicago Teen, Derrion Albert, BEAT to Death
Editor’s Note: Warning, the video is graphic! I hope that Derrion Albert rests in peace! It’s almost to the point where people are beginning to feel uncomfortable allowing their children in the public school system. Sad and very disturbing!
UPDATE: Three teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in Derrion Albert’s beating death.
Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric Carson, 16, all of Chicago, were charged as adults ordered held without bond, the Tribune reports.
Prosecutors declared Albert an “innocent bystander” in the fight that led to his death.
Chicago police are still investigating the gang fight that erupted Thursday in Roseland that resulted in the death of 16-year-old Fenger High School student 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.
An amateur video of the brawl shows dozens of people punching, kicking and swinging wooden boards in the street. Albert was struck by blows from one of those boards, Fox Chicago reports, and the video obtained by Fox shows a person getting hit with a board and then stomped on after falling to the ground.
As people rush to help the injured person, a voice can be heard on the video yelling, “Derrion, get up!”
September 28, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Thank God they got them. RIP Derrion
September 28, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Man, the end is so very hard to watch! Seeing them helplessly drag his body from the sidewalk. and hearing, “Derrion, get up!”, made me tear up! It is truly a sad thing!
Its amazing how many young people have all this built up anger. They want to be tough, thugs, and bullies. They don’t know they are killing themselves and our people! This is senseless, no merit behind it at all. My heart and prayers go out to the young man’s loved ones. Also, anyone else that was affected by this. I see these things a lot growing up in Texas, but it never seizes to amaze me!
Really, you’re willing to kill, hurt, and DESTROY our people, YOUR people over your “hood”, “set”, “COLORS”, etc. Spending most of your life in prison is like an honor for some of them (US). I hope whomever was involved in this, gets what they deserve! Shameless!!
The cameraman and the chick he/she was with should have stepped in. I don’t think the soul purpose of them recording this video was for the good of the public. My black people, we are already a dying race, why make the end much closer than it should be?