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CHICAGO (Sept. 28) - Prosecutors have charged three teenagers with first-degree murder in the beating death of a Chicago student who was walking home from school.
Family members believe the victim, 16-year-old Derrion Albert, was fatally beaten Thursday for refusing to join a gang. But some witnesses say he was
a bystander who was swept into a violent fight.
A vigil for Albert is planned outside Fenger High School on the city's South Side on Monday afternoon.
Police have been using a video purportedly taken by a person at the scene of the beating to help identify people. The video shows several people beating a stomping a person believed to be Albert.
Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin says the teens were charged Monday as adults.
http://news.aol.com/article/derrion...derrion-alberts-beating-death-captured/690024
CHICAGO (Sept. 28) - Prosecutors have charged three teenagers with first-degree murder in the beating death of a Chicago student who was walking home from school.
Family members believe the victim, 16-year-old Derrion Albert, was fatally beaten Thursday for refusing to join a gang. But some witnesses say he was
a bystander who was swept into a violent fight.
A vigil for Albert is planned outside Fenger High School on the city's South Side on Monday afternoon.
Police have been using a video purportedly taken by a person at the scene of the beating to help identify people. The video shows several people beating a stomping a person believed to be Albert.
Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin says the teens were charged Monday as adults.
http://news.aol.com/article/derrion...derrion-alberts-beating-death-captured/690024