::the Derrion ♥ Albert case::

COURT PLEAS IN DERRION ALBERT CASE

Nov 3, 2009-CHICAGO - Three teenagers charged in the beating death of Chicago honor student Derrion Albert have plead not guilty to the charges.   Im sure thats what theird ‘public pretender’ told them to say…

The three teens, all held without bail, entered their pleas Friday before Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford.

Nineteen-year-old Silvonus Shannon, 18-year-old Eugene Riley and 16-year-old Eric Carson have been indicted on murder charges for aalleged roles in the Sept. 24 beating of Albert. The beating was caught on a cell phone camera.A 14-year-old has been charged as a juvenile with murder. That teen, whose name has not been released, is due to appear in Juvenile Court on Dec. 1.Shannon, Riley and Carson are scheduled to make another court appearance Dec. 9.
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4TH SUSPECT CHARGED IN DERRION’S MURDER!

Chicago – A 14-year-old boy has become the fourth teen to be charged with murder in connection with the fatal beating of 16-year-old Fenger High School honors student Derrion Albert.  He is charged with  two counts of first-degree murder.     One count specified that it occurred during an aggravated battery and the other count specified that his actions had a probable cause of death or injury.

Three other Far South Side teens were indicted in the murder on Oct. 23.

Silvonus Shannon, 19; Eric Carson, 16; and Eugene Riley, 18, are charged with the murder of Albert, an innocent bystander in a fight between two groups of students near the Roseland neighborhood school on Sept. 24, Cook County prosecutors said. All three were being held without bond.

The three were indicted on three counts each of first-degree murder and one count each of mob action, according to Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.   They are scheduled for arraignment on Nov. 10.     Shannon, a Fenger student, and Riley have given videotaped confessions.

It was a brutal and violent attack in which the victim was merely a bystander.      The assault, captured on videotape , was not gang-related but arose from a disagreement between students who live in Altgeld Gardens and another group who live in an area known as the “Ville,” according to Asst. State’s Atty. Jodi Peterson.     Earlier that morning, the ongoing fight led to a shooting outside the school, Peterson said.     That led to a brawl near the school after classes finished shortly before 3 p.m.

Albert had been standing near 343 W. 111th St. when Carson and an unknown offender from the “Ville” approached him, Peterson said.    Carson struck Albert in the head with a long wooden railroad tie and the unknown offender punched him in the face, knocking Albert unconscious.

When Albert gained consciousness, he moved a few feet away from the mob and tried getting up.    But he was attacked again.    Soon, a group of five from the Altgeld Gardens faction descended upon Albert.    He was struck again with a railroad tied wielded by Riley, as Shannon stomped his head repeatedly, Peterson said.

Charges against 18-year-old Eugene Bailey were dropped in what family members called a case of mistaken identity. Police say they were still seeking other suspects.

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NAS- Open Letter to Young Warriors in Chicago

Evidenly NAS was so heated about this Black-on-Black crime that he drafted this letter.  (Courtesy of globalgrind.com):

Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong war! I know that feeling, that frustration with life and needing to take it out on someone, any one. But….

We chose the dumbest things to go the hardest for.  I remember seeing deaths over 8 ball jackets, Fila sneakers, and name plate chains. Deaths over “he say, she say”!!!!! “I’m from this block or I’m from that block”, or “my moms n pops is f*cked up now the whole world gotta pay”!!!

I remember feeling like I was the hardest “n*gga” breathing.  And I couldn’t wait to prove it. But let’s think. What are we really proving?? And proving what to who?? Everybody knows Chicago breeds the strongest of the strong but I just feel, me, being ya brother from another state feels your pain as if I grew up with you in ya very own household.

You have the ability and mindpower to change they way we are looked at.  Look who’s watching us young warriors, look who’s throwing us in jail constantly, look at the ignorance in the world. Look at the racist dogs who love to see us down. Loving to bury us in the ground or in jail where we continue this worthless war on one another.

Young warriors…. We are WASTING more and more time. We gotta get on our jobs and take over the world. Cuz this movie left the theaters years ago, Juice, Menace, Boys n the Hood , Blood n Blood Out, Belly!

When we see each other why do we see hatred? Why were we born in a storm, born soldiers, WARRIORS….and instead of building each other up we are at war with each other.. May the soul of this young person find peace with the almighty. I’m with you young warriors. You’re me and I’m you. But trust me! you are fighting the wrong war.

This sh*t sucks !!

-Nas

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♥A Mother’s Grief…Derrion Albert mother speaks.  

This is heartbreaking.   The mother of Derrion Albert speaks about her grief, poor thing.    I cried.  But more importantly, she spoke about her fear for her life, and the control these hoodlums really have on this Chicago neighborhood.  This is really unreal; it almost sounds like they live in a warzone, and I can’t understand how the police the mayor, and public officals allowed this.  She talks about how afraid they are for their kids to go to school, to sit on their porches…

Mayor Daly and some community leaders do some explainin’, but she’s the highlight of the whole thing…my heart just bled.
Shes’s 2:43 into the vid.
Watch.

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Derrion Albert laid to rest; 1000’s attend.

Speakers urge action to save our children.

More than 1,000 mourners attended a funeral Saturday for Derrion Albert — the 16-year-old honors student killed last month in a violent melee near Fenger High School on the South Side.

Speaker after speaker — from the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan — urged the crowd to do more to prevent youth violence.

“There’s too many of our young girls and young boys getting shot down and destroyed,” said Derrion’s pastor, Jimmy D. Cutts, of Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church. “It’s time for a change. The devil has stolen from us our dignity.”

Along with Jackson and Farrakhan, those attending the service at Greater Mount Hebron Missionary Baptist Church on the South Side included Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis and Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman.

Some mourners were so overcome with sorrow during the three-hour service that they had to be helped outside. Several teens wore shirts silkscreened with Derrion’s name and picture.

Jackson reminded mourners that in 1957, the National Guard was needed to escort black students into a previously all-white Arkansas school to provide them with safe passage.  “We need the same intervention today,” Jackson said, to cheers and shouts of “amen” from the crowd. “They did it in Little Rock. Do it in Chicago!”

While words are powerful, Jackson said, more is necessary. On Saturday, his group signed up 250 people to become mentors and coaches for young people.  “There’s calling for action, and then there’s being in action,” Jackson said

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This is  sad case for  Black America.  Black on Black crime is definetly out of control, atleast based on this.

Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties has ramped up pressure on Chicago officials to address chronic violence that has led to dozens of deaths of city teens each year.  The graphic video on news stations o, showing the fatal beating of Derrion Albert, a sophomore honor roll student at Christian Fenger Academy High School.  

Albert was knocked unconscious when Carson struck him in the head with a board and a second person punched him in the face. Albert regained consciousness and was trying to get up when he was attacked a second time by five people, struck in the head with a board by Riley and stomped in the head by Shannon, Simonton said.   Desiyan Bacon, Bailey’s aunt, said her nephew didn’t have anything to do with the beating and was a friend of the victim.  “They need to stop the crime, but when they do it, they need to get the right person,” Bacon said.

Prosecutors charged Silvonus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, Eric Carson, 16, and Eugene Bailey, 18, with first-degree murder, and looking for at least three more suspects.  (their ugly faces are shown in the vid below).

But Annette Holt, mother of Blair Holt,  a Chicago Public Schools student who was shot on a city bus two years ago, said Albert represented “another promising future, just snuffed out because of violence.”  

Someone said he (Derrion) was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” she said. “No, he wasn’t. He was in the right place. He was coming from school.”

Bless his heart…