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Showing Original Post only (View all)Ohio teens charged with murder over sandbag tossed from overpass [View all]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-teens-murder-charges-deadly-interstate-75-overpass-sandbag-toss/
Four Ohio teens face murder charges after allegedly throwing a sandbag from a highway overpass. The bag smashed through the windshield of a car that Marquise Byrd, 22, was riding in last week on Interstate 75 in Toledo. Byrd died from severe head injuries on Friday.
Three of the boys charged are 14 years old, and the other is 13. They had already been charged with felonious assault, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
Around 10 p.m. last Tuesday, a woman was driving with her friend, Byrd, under an overpass when something came crashing through the passenger-side windshield. She pulled over and called 911.
"I don't know what happened! My friend, I don't know what happened, he's not moving!" she told the dispatcher. "Something hit my car. And hit my friend. And he is not moving!"
"OK, you don't know what hit him?" the dispatcher asked.
"No, my windshield is, like, smashed up. He is laid out on my seat. I think the windshield might have smacked his head," the distressed woman responded.
Police arrested four juveniles after seeing them leave the area near the overpass. They're accused of throwing objects off the interstate bridge. It was a sandbag that broke the windshield and hit Byrd in the passenger seat. He leaves behind a 2-year-old son and was reportedly engaged to be married.
The arrests come nearly two months after a similar incident near Flint, Michigan. Five teens there are facing charges of second degree murder after throwing rocks off an overpass, hitting a vehicle and killing 32-year-old Kenneth White.
Four Ohio teens face murder charges after allegedly throwing a sandbag from a highway overpass. The bag smashed through the windshield of a car that Marquise Byrd, 22, was riding in last week on Interstate 75 in Toledo. Byrd died from severe head injuries on Friday.
Three of the boys charged are 14 years old, and the other is 13. They had already been charged with felonious assault, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
Around 10 p.m. last Tuesday, a woman was driving with her friend, Byrd, under an overpass when something came crashing through the passenger-side windshield. She pulled over and called 911.
"I don't know what happened! My friend, I don't know what happened, he's not moving!" she told the dispatcher. "Something hit my car. And hit my friend. And he is not moving!"
"OK, you don't know what hit him?" the dispatcher asked.
"No, my windshield is, like, smashed up. He is laid out on my seat. I think the windshield might have smacked his head," the distressed woman responded.
Police arrested four juveniles after seeing them leave the area near the overpass. They're accused of throwing objects off the interstate bridge. It was a sandbag that broke the windshield and hit Byrd in the passenger seat. He leaves behind a 2-year-old son and was reportedly engaged to be married.
The arrests come nearly two months after a similar incident near Flint, Michigan. Five teens there are facing charges of second degree murder after throwing rocks off an overpass, hitting a vehicle and killing 32-year-old Kenneth White.
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IronLionZion
Dec 2017
OP
No. They have childrens undeveloped judgment and should be adjudicated in Juv court.
Shrike47
Dec 2017
#65
They sealed their own fates when they decided to deliberately drop a heavy object off
Aristus
Dec 2017
#72
So if found not guilty they should have all the rights of an adult also??? nt
USALiberal
Dec 2017
#77
Charging children as adults reduces the chance at rehabilitation and puts them at risk of violence.
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2017
#8
When I was 13, I was pretty clear on that "don't kill or injure people" thing...
brooklynite
Dec 2017
#9
I'm not surprised at all that you are either unwilling or unable to discern the relevant legal diffe
LanternWaste
Dec 2017
#42
More and more I'm leaning this way. I had a predominate psychiatrist friend once that said
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#51
All it takes is one sociopath in a group of kids and something like this happens.
haele
Dec 2017
#56
Parents can be held liable for the actions of thier children till a certain age.
oneshooter
Dec 2017
#83
Parents should bear some responsibility for negligence. Not sure what, but some.
lindysalsagal
Dec 2017
#74
They should all pay child support and college tuition, room and board for the surviving son.
LuvLoogie
Dec 2017
#82