Teen Attacked, Beaten to Death in Melee,Chicago
Raw video:September 24/09.Chicago.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 p
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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. Less..
Added: Sep 27 2009 In: news_politics
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TEXT:Chicago, Illinois - A 16-year-old boy was beaten to death in a melee involving dozens of people Thursday afternoon in the Far South Side%u2019s Roseland neighborhood. About 3 p.m., police responded to a large group of people fighting in the 300 block of West 111th Street and found a male punched, kicked and struck about the body, according to police News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti. Derrion Albert, 16, of 12138 S. Normal Ave., was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The incident occurred at the Agape Community Center at 342 W. 111th St. Milton Massy, Director of Agape Community Center, saw the melee on surveillance tape.
"The whole incident took a span of four minutes," Massy said. "Kids were coming from the east and the west and converging in the middle of the street. Kids were also gathering in the empty lot next to the center." Massy said he saw one child hit another in the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground. He then saw at least three or four teens beating another.
"Kids were hopping over cars, bringing sticks. It was like a riot." Massy said. When police arrived, three of Massy's staff went out to rescue a boy who was getting beaten by several others. The teen was later identified as Albert. Police waited with the staff members until the ambulance arrived to transport Albert, Massy said.
Massy estimated at least three children were hurt. Police did not have anyone in custody as of 11 p.m. and did not know the motive.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "jdischord" (R)
Keep killing each other. ubangis. Make America better for everybody else.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "AvgDude2" (R)
I see Animal Planet's Primat world is on.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Plainbob13" (R)
no loss here...the tragedy is that the rest of them lived
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "YT14" (R)
Savages! Let em all rot in hell.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "trippleheartbypass" (R)
OBAMA's black-shirt mafia
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "spadata" (R)
Disgusting.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "ThunderHorse" (R)
This is totally senseless.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "I am Samuel" (R)
you are disrespectful to the man whom you use as an avatar. He was considered a savage by the British. Go read some history before spewing nonsense.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "Sadistikal" (R)
Wow i'm rubbing my eyes in disbelief.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "unschlagbar" (R)
It's funny...you'll never hear Obama, Sharpton, Farrakan or Jackson comment about the cancer of the black community.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "thetruthhurts" (R)
I'm Shocked!
Well not really..
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "jamie25" (R)
chicago sucks!
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "brako" (R)
actually looks like the souf side of my city.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "brako" (R)
Why can't more weapons be shipped into these ghettos? These apelings could kill themselves much more efficiently if they were using AK 47's instead of fence planks.
Posted Sep-27-2009 by "tonkoo" (R)