4 Kids Beat Homeless Man to Death
Yesterday when I was coming back to school on the train I was reading 17 magazine. In there they have articles about interesting topics and things that have happened to teens. The one article that really caught my eye was about four boys who killed a homeless man. In the article it said that they always went to this one spot in the woods to hang out, talk, and smoke pot. They would go there to get away from their lives and often would go back to one of their houses and watch jackass and videos on beating bums. From this they decide to make a club… something along the lines of bum beaters… they wanted to beat bums like they had seen on the shows they watched. On this one afternoon they met in their spot like they always did and smoked pot and hung out when they saw the neighborhood homeless man near them. One of the boys yelled at him to get out of their area. Then they started to beat him up. They punched him in the face and hit him with piece of wood while blood got on them. Then they decided to go get food and they left him there in very bad shape. When they got back he had moved a couple hundred feet from where he was when they left and they start to beat him up some more. One of the kids picked up a piece of wood with a nail on the end and hit him several times in the head fracturing his skull and making him unconscious. They also jumped on him, breaking half of his ribs. Then they left him there to die. The mother of one of the boys says that her soon said to her that he killed a man and a couple days after she found out that he had taken his cousin to the woods and showed him the homeless mans dead body. Not knowing what to do, the mother called the police and told them what she knew and they found the man dead in the woods. The boys were arrested and their sentences ranged from 17-35 years in jail. If they hadn’t watched the disgusting videos that they did do you think that maybe they never would have done such a horrible thing? I personally think that they there parents are partially to blame because they were either unaware of the pot or they just ignored it. Smoking pot is obviously a problem and being under the influence can make people do things they would normally do. Although this is true it is not an excuse. These kids definitely deserved the sentences that they received. What they did was horrifying. How could they kill an innocent man?
May 7th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
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