who then stabs him in the neck as he lies on the ground.
Posted on 10/01/2021 5:36:17 PM PDT by Libloather
“How is it mutual combat when my son didn’t have anything to combat with?” asks Manuel Porties of the state’s attorney’s office decision.
An Illinois family mourning the death of their 18-year-old son is outraged that no murder charges will be filed in conjunction with his death due to what prosecutors are calling “mutual combat.”
Manuel Porties, Jr. was killed Tuesday after being stabbed to death during a recorded, planned fight in Schaumburg, a town located 30 miles east of Chicago.
According to WGN 9, video of the fight shows Porties Jr. being punched in the face by a 17-year-old, who then stabs him in the neck as he lies on the ground.
The younger teenager has not been identified but has been charged with misdemeanor unlawful use of a weapon.
“They’re saying that it’s mutual combat,” said the slain man’s father, Manuel Porties. “How is it mutual combat when my son didn’t have anything to combat with? The only thing he had was his two hands.”
“He stood over my son and finished him,” he added, “and that’s not murder?”
In a statement, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said, “After an extensive review of the available information presented to us, including a discussion with the Schaumburg Police Department, we determined that the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to file murder charges.”
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Lotta “Mutual Combat” in chicago these days....
Now instead of Murder.....
It will be “Mutual Combat” and suddenly.....
Chicago has the LOWEST murder rate in the United States!!!
corrupt state.
corrupt city.
corrupt AG.
corrupt mayor.
The case is clear. It was assault and battery and murder.
Schaumburg is a large suburb northwest of Chicago. I find other misfacts hard to believe in this story. Period.
a recorded, planned fight
sounds like it might have been at least a little mutual
So… dueling is back?
I have prediction. The individual that had the knife has rich and powerful democrat Parents that spread money around in the state that this happened in.
“West Side Story” sharks vs jets...
Doesn't sound too mutual.
Schaumburg, a town located 30 miles east of Chicago.
Well, the source IS Yahoo...
That’s the way I see it. We know to never bring a knife to a gun fight. And by the same token never bring two hands to a knife fight.
who then stabs him in the neck as he lies on the ground.
Play stupid games...
Mutual combat. In a country that can claim unarmed patriots staged a violent insurrection on January 6, we can also see an unarmed teenager can be killed via mutual combat.
They called it a planned fight. He should have come prepared.
So evidently dueling is now legal again.
the law will favor who it wants to favor and we rabble will just the heck up......I suspect the murderer is of a special class.
So, this was an agreed-upon event? I don’t see how you get A&B, but possibly murder.
How can the use of a weapon that results in a person's death in such circumstances only result in a misdemeanor? I would think that the guy could be successfully sued for a wrongful death but he would probably have no assets.
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