Teen Attacked, Beaten to Death in Melee
This is the hard lesson some students at Fenger High School have to deal with after a day of learning. For them it's a hard lesson of reality on the streets.
Thursday after school, two rival gangs got into a fight three blocks from the high school.
In all four students were beaten in that melee -- one was released from the hospital Friday morning.
While police continue their investigatio
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Rival gang members have been fighting for a month -- and each time one of their fellow classmates is injured.
No knives and no guns were used in Thursday's fight. Just fists, feet and boards.
Derrion Albert, 16, was struck in the head by one of those boards.
Seconds later the honor student hit the pavement. That’s when witnesses, who are other high school students, say gangbangers began stomping on and punching Albert.
Derrion Albert's mom said witnesses told her he was "trying to help another student and kind of got mixed in with the crowd of the fight and he was hit.”
A senior who witnessed the whole thing says the melee lasted less than five minutes.
The video shows students and workers from a nearby community center rescue the boy -- but many out there knew it was too late.
Surveillance videos are mounted on businesses in the Roseland area, but Chicago Police say those don't show faces.
Police have a copy of this footage and it may help identify Albert's killers.
But while that investigation goes on, students say they will remember Derrion Albert as a good kid. A quiet, smart kid with no gang affiliation. But just a kid who may not have had enough street smarts to go another way.
If you can identify any of the people allegedly involved in the death of Derrion Albert, please call Area Two of the Chicago Police Dept. That number is 312-747-8272. Less..
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Added: Sep 27 2009 In: news_politics,leak
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Posted Sep-27-2009 by "leakinghole" (R)
that's what happens when you let monkeys loose!
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Cheetoman" (R)
Holly shit, I saw two white guys in this vid.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "PMBEELKE" (R)
If I knew things were gonna turn out this bad, I'd a picked my own damned cotton!
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Johnls" (R)
Wow, that's just a disgusting display. And judging by the blurred image, I'm assuming at least one kid didn't make it out alive.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "VictoryGirl" (R)
yes - innocent people get attacked, and good Samaritans try to help them, when you "let monkeys loose"
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "crassmockery" (R)
dont bring your fists to a board fight
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "rlnbns" (R)
I guess I missed the end of the article. Poor kid, I hope they find his murderer(s).
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "VictoryGirl" (R)
Damn... what third world shit hole is this?? The US of A?
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Vitali_85" (R)
Notice how they all dress exactly the same, this is done for the explicit purpose of making identifying any one person among the crowd extremely difficult. Gangs are doing this more and more, all wearing the same color T-Shirt and Pants. This should draw warning flags for citizens and police anytime you see a group of 3 or more who just "happen" be be dressed exactly alike, they are doing it to evade being identified after they commit violent criminal acts.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "nikone" (R)
This is the liberal utopia.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "nexuspal" (R)
who let the monkeys out? WHO! WHO WHO!!
who let the monkeys out?
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Fire Crusader" (R)
Darnell got ****ed up.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Nieko" (R)
Unfortunately. But at least it's confined to African-America.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Allanson" (B)
Thats exactly what Republicans terrorist groups the Minutemen do to defenseless immigrant by the border
The only difference is the the minutemen are killing womenand children's too
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "6_6_6" (R)