9 face murder charges in after-school brawl
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Girl fights--ugh--when I was principal I would rather have boy fights. Girls would never let it go
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When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are Stupid.<o
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When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are Stupid.<o
Well said Old School.........:0074
I once heard a wise man say about a stripper that he had just spoken with, "She doesn't know, and she doesn't even know that she doesn't know."
I heard that nearly 20 years ago and have never forgotten it.
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http://www.wlwt.com/national/9-face-murder-charges-in-afterschool-brawl/38702066
By Kevin Conlon and Phil Gast CNN
It started out as a fistfight. Two girls -- emboldened by bystanders alternately yelling out support or derision -- went toe-to-toe in the residential street before they tumbled to the ground.<aside abp="1123">
</aside>It only got uglier from there.
A two-minute cell phone video shot by a witness last week in Hephzibah, Georgia, captures the chaos as others join the fray, some wielding bats or pipes, others their fists. The driver of a black car targets two young men, narrowly misses them, and backs up on the subdivision lawn, striking another vehicle.
In the end, an 18-year-old boy was mortally wounded.
The sheriff in Richmond County has accused nine people -- including six high school students -- of murder. He told CNN affiliate WJBF that any person who participates in a felony that results in loss of life can be charged with that crime.
"Every person who was involved in this type of foolish behavior are going to be charged with the most severe crime that we can possibly charge them with," Sheriff Richard Roundtree told WRDW, another affiliate.
The disturbing video, shot March 18, captured the screams of onlookers and participants during the after-school brawl in the east Georgia suburb of Augusta. A young man used a bat or pipe to strike the vehicle that eventually came charging. At one point, a teen holding his bloodied upper shoulder runs from a porch toward the street.
A girl, her voice hoarse from the effort, screams, "Call 911."
As many as 50 people -- many of them students at Glenn Hills High School in Augusta -- participated in the brawl that resulted in the death of Demajhay Bell, WRDW reported, citing officials.
Bell was stabbed in the neck and died two days later, the affiliate reported.
Richmond County District Attorney Ashley Wright told CNN that none of the defendants has entered a plea because the charges must first be presented to a grand jury for possible indictment. All nine are being held without bond, pending a hearing, she said.
WJBF reported a 10th person is being sought, and that all are facing additional charges of aggravated assault.
According to Roundtree, the dispute began as high school "drama."
"That drama that happens in high school, and everybody has gone through it," the sheriff told WRDW. "But when the adults get involved, that's always a bad thing."
A spokesman for the Richmond County school system, however, told CNN that reports of the altercation beginning at school are "unsubstantiated."
"[The brawl] did involve students from school, but reports that the incident began at school are unsubstantiated," said Kaden Jacobs. "According to our investigation and the information available at this time, it seems to us that this began due to Facebook posts."
Jacobs told CNN that six current Glenn Hills High School students have been charged: Quiasha Henley, A'Lexis Cain, Tyteanna Thomas and Myah Dunbar, all 18, as well as Terry Lee Daniels and Raheem Jobes, both 19.
All have been suspended pending tribunal hearings, according to Jacobs.
He said that Bell had dropped out of a different district high school in September.
The other three charged, according to WJBF, are Quiauna Henley, 35, Eyvette Lashawn Byrd, 39, and Demetrius Lamont Harris Jr., 21.
It was unclear whether any had retained defense attorneys, and CNN was unable Friday to reach any family members of the nine.
A message left for Bell's mother was not immediately returned.
Roundtree said the community can't tolerate such violence.
"It was a series of events that led to it. It wasn't just one incident of a violent act against an individual," he told WRDW. "This was a coordinated, conscious effort."
By Kevin Conlon and Phil Gast CNN
It started out as a fistfight. Two girls -- emboldened by bystanders alternately yelling out support or derision -- went toe-to-toe in the residential street before they tumbled to the ground.<aside abp="1123">
</aside>It only got uglier from there.
A two-minute cell phone video shot by a witness last week in Hephzibah, Georgia, captures the chaos as others join the fray, some wielding bats or pipes, others their fists. The driver of a black car targets two young men, narrowly misses them, and backs up on the subdivision lawn, striking another vehicle.
In the end, an 18-year-old boy was mortally wounded.
The sheriff in Richmond County has accused nine people -- including six high school students -- of murder. He told CNN affiliate WJBF that any person who participates in a felony that results in loss of life can be charged with that crime.
"Every person who was involved in this type of foolish behavior are going to be charged with the most severe crime that we can possibly charge them with," Sheriff Richard Roundtree told WRDW, another affiliate.
The disturbing video, shot March 18, captured the screams of onlookers and participants during the after-school brawl in the east Georgia suburb of Augusta. A young man used a bat or pipe to strike the vehicle that eventually came charging. At one point, a teen holding his bloodied upper shoulder runs from a porch toward the street.
A girl, her voice hoarse from the effort, screams, "Call 911."
As many as 50 people -- many of them students at Glenn Hills High School in Augusta -- participated in the brawl that resulted in the death of Demajhay Bell, WRDW reported, citing officials.
Bell was stabbed in the neck and died two days later, the affiliate reported.
Richmond County District Attorney Ashley Wright told CNN that none of the defendants has entered a plea because the charges must first be presented to a grand jury for possible indictment. All nine are being held without bond, pending a hearing, she said.
WJBF reported a 10th person is being sought, and that all are facing additional charges of aggravated assault.
According to Roundtree, the dispute began as high school "drama."
"That drama that happens in high school, and everybody has gone through it," the sheriff told WRDW. "But when the adults get involved, that's always a bad thing."
A spokesman for the Richmond County school system, however, told CNN that reports of the altercation beginning at school are "unsubstantiated."
"[The brawl] did involve students from school, but reports that the incident began at school are unsubstantiated," said Kaden Jacobs. "According to our investigation and the information available at this time, it seems to us that this began due to Facebook posts."
Jacobs told CNN that six current Glenn Hills High School students have been charged: Quiasha Henley, A'Lexis Cain, Tyteanna Thomas and Myah Dunbar, all 18, as well as Terry Lee Daniels and Raheem Jobes, both 19.
All have been suspended pending tribunal hearings, according to Jacobs.
He said that Bell had dropped out of a different district high school in September.
The other three charged, according to WJBF, are Quiauna Henley, 35, Eyvette Lashawn Byrd, 39, and Demetrius Lamont Harris Jr., 21.
It was unclear whether any had retained defense attorneys, and CNN was unable Friday to reach any family members of the nine.
A message left for Bell's mother was not immediately returned.
Roundtree said the community can't tolerate such violence.
"It was a series of events that led to it. It wasn't just one incident of a violent act against an individual," he told WRDW. "This was a coordinated, conscious effort."
Thank's for sharing..
In my 39 years as a teacher,coach,asst principal,and now principal it seem like it never ends...about 4 weeks ago right in front of the school as the students were being released I was standing there doing bus duty...two girls started swinging and grabbing hair...I grabbed one of the girls and a teacher grabbed the other...by the time we separated them our security staff had arrived...both got 5 days of OSS{ out of school}. It was about a boy and facebook...Facebook is our biggest nightmare today....anyway I hurt my shoulder...thought it was a rib....my staff was more upset with me getting involved...my 5 hall monitors look the the linebackers of the NY Giants{ wrong team to select because we can't tackle anyone} Big,strong,work out at Golds gym etc...I know I'm 64 and had a "stent" put in in Dec...WTF am I doing...I was right there and it was just a reaction...would do it again..my shoulder hurt for 2 weeks...in cardio-rehab didn't do the exercises using the upper body until two week ago...
When I told me wife in Texas what happened she went off...I love my job as a principal...I have always been an active principal...eat in the cafe with the kids..do hall duty and bus duty etc...but that fight a few weeks ago made me realize I need to hang it up...so in June I will retire for the 3rd time for good...that fight was the final straw....
Girl fights are always worst then boys...breaking up my 1st girls fight years ago... I had my shirt all stained with grease...I figures it out later..the girls go in the bathroom..take their earrings off,tie back there hair,and put grease all over there clothes and arms...then when they fight it hard's to separate them... the video of the fight and me sliding and slipping trying to hold back one of the girls would of won the $10,000 on America's Funniest Video's...
Like I said earlier..facebook and texting are huge problems...deal with it everyday in school...
Thanks for sharing that story..didn't see it...sorry for this long and boring story..
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In my 39 years as a teacher,coach,asst principal,and now principal it seem like it never ends...about 4 weeks ago right in front of the school as the students were being released I was standing there doing bus duty...two girls started swinging and grabbing hair...I grabbed one of the girls and a teacher grabbed the other...by the time we separated them our security staff had arrived...both got 5 days of OSS{ out of school}. It was about a boy and facebook...Facebook is our biggest nightmare today....anyway I hurt my shoulder...thought it was a rib....my staff was more upset with me getting involved...my 5 hall monitors look the the linebackers of the NY Giants{ wrong team to select because we can't tackle anyone} Big,strong,work out at Golds gym etc...I know I'm 64 and had a "stent" put in in Dec...WTF am I doing...I was right there and it was just a reaction...would do it again..my shoulder hurt for 2 weeks...in cardio-rehab didn't do the exercises using the upper body until two week ago...
When I told me wife in Texas what happened she went off...I love my job as a principal...I have always been an active principal...eat in the cafe with the kids..do hall duty and bus duty etc...but that fight a few weeks ago made me realize I need to hang it up...so in June I will retire for the 3rd time for good...that fight was the final straw....
Girl fights are always worst then boys...breaking up my 1st girls fight years ago... I had my shirt all stained with grease...I figures it out later..the girls go in the bathroom..take their earrings off,tie back there hair,and put grease all over there clothes and arms...then when they fight it hard's to separate them... the video of the fight and me sliding and slipping trying to hold back one of the girls would of won the $10,000 on America's Funniest Video's...
Like I said earlier..facebook and texting are huge problems...deal with it everyday in school...
Thanks for sharing that story..didn't see it...sorry for this long and boring story..
s
