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Grieving dad of 12-year-old fatally attacked at school blames son’s classmates
New York Post ^ | May 8, 2021 | Georgett Roberts, Dean Balsamini, Melissa Klein

Posted on 05/09/2021 6:22:31 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes

The distraught dad whose 12-year-old son died after being attacked at school over what may have been a $1 dare was overcome with grief Saturday — and blamed the boy’s classmates.

“They beat my son in the school. They kill him,” Romain Vilsaint, 59, sobbed, speaking in Creole as a neighbor translated. “Oh God, I lost my son, I lost my son.”

His family said the boy complained of a headache Wednesday, but didn’t tell them until later he was jumped by two kids. They don’t know where or what sparked the incident.

He went to school Thursday, where he was hit in the head by a kid allegedly paid a buck by a classmate. He spent the day in the nurse’s office complaining of a terrible headache.

Vilsaint played the voicemail his son left him from the nurse’s office:

“Hello Daddy,” Romy said in English. He continued in Creole, telling his dad he had “a huge headache” and that there was a guy who “hit me real hard” in the back of his head.

Romy Vilsaint was barely conscious at the family’s Flatbush home Friday and was taken to Kings County Hospital where he died. The NYPD is investigating.

A police source said there was no initial indication of criminality.

The Medical Examiner said Saturday that the cause and manner of Romy’s death was “pending further studies, but there is no trauma.”

For Romy’s father, an immigrant from Haiti, the death had an extra layer of tragedy. His older son died in a motorcycle accident in Haiti in 2018.

“He is my only son, only one,” he said of Romy, who had three older sisters — two in the US and one in Haiti — and younger twin sisters who live in Haiti with their mom.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: creole; deanbalsamini; flatbush; georgettroberts; haiti; kingscounty; knockoutgame; melissaklein; newyork; newyorkpost; nypd; romainvilsaint; romyvilsaint
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1 posted on 05/09/2021 6:22:31 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

I read it a couple days ago. It sounds suspicious to me.
Well see how it turns out. Either way, cute little boy dead before his time.


2 posted on 05/09/2021 6:26:45 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

NYC where currently they are teaching kids even in private schools to hate each other because of race. Gee whiz, what could have sparked this?


3 posted on 05/09/2021 6:30:20 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Sorry some one tell me why remote learning isn’t better. Kids can’t be with their friends (unless its after school, which technically outside of lunch and between classes can be with them anyways), but apparently can’t be protected by their enemies trying to make a buck, literally.


4 posted on 05/09/2021 6:30:32 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Sounds like a case of the “knockout game.”


5 posted on 05/09/2021 6:30:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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The Medical Examiner said Saturday that the cause and manner of Romy’s death was “pending further studies, but there is no trauma.”

I guess the victim was lying before he died, then. Seems consistent with a brain bleed, but the 12-year-old victim of a knockout game or whatever probably made the whole thing up.

6 posted on 05/09/2021 6:31:29 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Tired of Taxes

My heart aches for this man.


7 posted on 05/09/2021 6:32:06 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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“…The Medical Examiner said Saturday that the cause and manner of Romy’s death was “pending further studies, but there is no trauma.”…”
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No trauma? Bull! There may be no visible trauma but certainly there will be brain trauma. These disgusting idiots had better be doing an autopsy because this was definitely a homicide.


8 posted on 05/09/2021 6:32:36 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Tired of Taxes

I wonder if the school nurse knew he had been hit in the head.


9 posted on 05/09/2021 6:34:33 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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...the cause and manner of Romy’s death was “pending further studies, but there is no trauma.”

Maybe no obvious trauma.

10 posted on 05/09/2021 6:42:50 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Romain Vilsaint, M ap priye pou ou.


11 posted on 05/09/2021 6:50:30 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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My heart aches for this man.

He lost another son in a motorcycle crash in Haiti three years ago.

12 posted on 05/09/2021 6:53:08 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

In tears. How can anyone live through the vicious murder of a smart and adorable young son?


13 posted on 05/09/2021 6:55:56 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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In tears. How can anyone live through the vicious murder of a smart and adorable young son?


14 posted on 05/09/2021 7:01:58 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: DLfromthedesert

Mine too! OMG.


15 posted on 05/09/2021 7:02:44 PM PDT by MonicaG (Stunned... in 2021)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Subhuman ferrals.


16 posted on 05/09/2021 7:08:32 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: House Atreides

I kkow someone who was in a car accident resulting in a cut on the head. Never lost conciousness. Four days later they had to drill holes in his skull to relieve the pressure from the hematoma. He nearly died.


17 posted on 05/09/2021 7:11:06 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

I’d kill the two punks and their families.


18 posted on 05/09/2021 7:14:28 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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“I wonder if the school nurse knew he had been hit in the head.”
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With a near certainty she did. And equally certain she knew that a sucker punch can kill an adult male and therefore could also kill a little boy.


19 posted on 05/09/2021 7:14:54 PM PDT by House Atreides
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I knew a family whose 12yo was punched in the back of the head. Fortunately, the child was OK, but the school principal did not want police involved because he worried about bad publicity. The parents reported it to police, anyway, but... Makes you wonder how many cases are swept under the rug.


20 posted on 05/09/2021 7:23:42 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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