Post by boxman on Nov 19, 2008 1:02:00 GMT -5
I was wondering if the this episode was based on an amalgamation of two violent crimes here in Philly. The first involved a near-fatal attack on a 13-year old Liberian who moved to Philly only a few weeks earlier. The second case was a subway concourse attack that triggered a fatal asthma reaction.
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Two Convicted In Student Beating
by Anne-Marie Green
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Two juveniles charged with beating up a classmate have been convicted of assault in Philadelphia Family Court.
Jacob Gray, a native of Liberia, was beaten on his way home from school last month. Police said his attackers thought Gray had snitched on another teenager who was arrested for marijuana possession.
Joseph Gray believes his son, Jacob, was targeted because he was an immigrant from Liberia after being in the United States for less than a month.
"It's sad this family came hear to pursue the American dream and part of that dream is for our kids to get an education and become professional in light of a better way," said assistant District Attorney Bernarda Villalona....
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Testimony: Fatal SEPTA Assault Prompted By Dare
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Five teenagers fatally beat a man on a subway platform after a friend dared them to hit someone, saying "next person we see we're going to hit," one of the defendants allegedly told police.
"We all didn't want to seem like no punk," Ameer Best, 17, told police in a written statement read at a preliminary hearing Wednesday for Best and four co-defendants.
Best and the other teens, Kinta Stanton, Arthur Alston, Rasheem Bell and Nashir Fisher, all 16, will be tried as adults on charges of third-degree murder and conspiracy for the March 26 beating, Municipal Court Judge James DeLeon ruled.
The friend accused of issuing the dare has not been arrested.
Sean Patrick Conroy, a 36-year-old coffee shop manager, received four or five hard blows, Assistant Medical Examiner Bennett Preston testified. The resulting stress led to a fatal asthma attack.
Preston found the asthma attack was triggered by blunt force trauma, and ruled the death a homicide.
"It was a tough day," said the victim's father, Steve Conroy, fighting tears. "It's tough to hear about him alone on that platform, knowing the way he died."
Conroy was found on his knees, gasping for air on the platform of a downtown subway station by a transit police officer who saw the attack from across the tracks....
cbs3.com/topstories/Jacob.Gray.Student.2.296913.html?detectflash=false
Two Convicted In Student Beating
by Anne-Marie Green
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Two juveniles charged with beating up a classmate have been convicted of assault in Philadelphia Family Court.
Jacob Gray, a native of Liberia, was beaten on his way home from school last month. Police said his attackers thought Gray had snitched on another teenager who was arrested for marijuana possession.
Joseph Gray believes his son, Jacob, was targeted because he was an immigrant from Liberia after being in the United States for less than a month.
"It's sad this family came hear to pursue the American dream and part of that dream is for our kids to get an education and become professional in light of a better way," said assistant District Attorney Bernarda Villalona....
cbs3.com/local/sean.conroy.septa.2.745516.html
Testimony: Fatal SEPTA Assault Prompted By Dare
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Five teenagers fatally beat a man on a subway platform after a friend dared them to hit someone, saying "next person we see we're going to hit," one of the defendants allegedly told police.
"We all didn't want to seem like no punk," Ameer Best, 17, told police in a written statement read at a preliminary hearing Wednesday for Best and four co-defendants.
Best and the other teens, Kinta Stanton, Arthur Alston, Rasheem Bell and Nashir Fisher, all 16, will be tried as adults on charges of third-degree murder and conspiracy for the March 26 beating, Municipal Court Judge James DeLeon ruled.
The friend accused of issuing the dare has not been arrested.
Sean Patrick Conroy, a 36-year-old coffee shop manager, received four or five hard blows, Assistant Medical Examiner Bennett Preston testified. The resulting stress led to a fatal asthma attack.
Preston found the asthma attack was triggered by blunt force trauma, and ruled the death a homicide.
"It was a tough day," said the victim's father, Steve Conroy, fighting tears. "It's tough to hear about him alone on that platform, knowing the way he died."
Conroy was found on his knees, gasping for air on the platform of a downtown subway station by a transit police officer who saw the attack from across the tracks....
