Posted on 11/24/2009 2:40:28 PM PST by Bob017
KENT, Ohio - Fox 8 News has learned that a Kent State student who had been hospitalized in critical condition after a brutal attack, has died.
According to the Kent State Police Department, Chris Kernich passed away around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, at Akron City Hospital.
Police say the 23-year-old the was walking home on East Main Street with two friends early Sunday morning, when they were nearly run over by a car.
Witnesses say one of the students yelled to the driver "watch what you're doing".
Police say the car then pulled ahead of Chris Kernich and his friends, and two men, 20-year-old Ronald Kelly and 21-year-old Adrian Barker jumped out and began beating the three students.
Members of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity saw what was happening and tried to help Kernich and his friends.
Kent State Senior Shawn Mullins says "this kid ended up getting beaten up and then they started stomping him in the street and he was by himself really."
By the time the members of the fraternity got to Chris Kernich's side, he was laying in the street.
Mullins says "it didn't look like he was breathing whatsoever and his body was like limp so we had to physically pick up out of the street."
While a couple of the fraternity brothers summoned medical attention for Chris Kernich, the others kept Ronald Kelly and Adrian Barker from fleeing until Kent Police arrived.
But they almost ended up being victims themselves.
Shawn Mullins says "when we chased the kid off, they tried to hit us, the guy, he came out from a driveway over here somewhere and he tried to hit us with the car too."
On a Facebook page created for Chris Kernich, hundreds of his friends and relatives have sent messages of support.
Friends say Chris suffered a severe head injury from a kick to the head, resulting in swelling on his brain.
His fellow students at Kent State say the attack on Kernich was a complete overreaction, and in their minds unprovoked.
Shawn Mullins says, "Just to make a comment like that which most people would overlook but to have somebody that's that aggressive, that's just going to jump out and try to do something that's that serious to you, it's I don't know, it's kind of scary."
Kent Police say Kelly and Barker have been charged with felonious assault. They are being held in the Portage County Jail.
No other information is being released at this time.
Kent State University President Lester A. Lefton has issued a statement regarding Kernich's death. It reads:
"The university community is deeply saddened to learn about the untimely death of one of our students. Christopher Kernich, a junior studying pre-business management, has died at the age of 23. The entire Kent State community sends our heartfelt condolences to Chris family. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Losing a loved one is never easy, particularly if it is a result of a senseless tragedy.Chris death is a tragic reminder that violence, whether provoked or unprovoked-regardless of the reason, is never the answer. May we learn something from this incident, for our own sake and in Chris memory."
There. Fixed it.
We need stricter gun laws to prevent this type of thing!
oh, wait......
/sarc
is a tragic reminder that violence, whether provoked or unprovoked-regardless of the reason, is never the answer.
Really? Should we have sent Hilter flowers instead of American soldiers who perpatrated extreme violence on the nazi?
Would you rather be called an Englsihman instead of an American? It was extreme violence that made you an American..
You are blaming the action-a kick to the head(violence)instead of blaming the scumbags that used the violence in a totaly immoral illeagl improper manner.
I blame the scumbags..
“Chris death is a tragic reminder that violence, whether provoked or unprovoked-regardless of the reason, is never the answer.”
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Au contraire.
To those not burdened with the plague of political correctness, it is becoming patently obvious that violence IS the answer when faced with increasingly emboldened, ignorant, third world savages.
alleged perp. Oh how I hate that word.
What’s with you and the Amish? Odd comments and Odd tag.
This is likely a 2nd degree murder (IANAL) but I tell ya, this is an example of a 2nd degree murder which IMO should be prosecuted and sentenced as vigorously as a 1st degree murder.
Consider: This is pure animalistic violent behavior, with no apparent self-imposed limitations, and if society is to be protected against such, this deserves a very lengthy prison sentence. If the perps here can go overboard to this extent over something so apparently trivial, then at what point are they to be considered safe to allow to run loose? And I mean, “run loose”. This is animalistic behavior, not human behavior.
As opposed to first degree murder, which, though it is certainly heinous and deliberate, is probably directed only at a single person whom the perp believes has wronged him/her to an intolerable degree. That it is premeditated speaks to a sense of logic, a sense of right and wrong, twisted though they may be.
My opinion.
Reverse the races and it’s front page news and the lead story on TV.
The victim is sadly, melanin challenged.
We sacrifice thee Charles Kernich, age 23 on the altar of political correctness. Your death shall be in vain, the country will not know your name.
Hardly a day goes by when some white kid or some white girl isn’t beaten or raped or both by Amish men.
Oops, CHRISTOPHER Kernich, prayers for the Kernich family.
I saw the headline on the thread and knew without even having to look at the photos.This is getting frightening.
“this kid ended up getting beaten up and then they started stomping him in the street and he was by himself really.”
It was a hate crime, pure and simple. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Is that the sound of ole al sharpton I hear?
It's a running joke here on FR. When there is a story about violent crime, and the perps' ethnicity is not mentioned, even though everyone knows what it is, we say that it must be the Amish.
“NEVER RELAX”
And either get a CCW or learn to BOX! Many white people think every black man is Mike Tyson, and predators can sense that fear. The middle class has become feminized over the past 40 years and socialized to think that “violence never solves problems” and such psychobabble baloney. They did not get that message in the ghetto-they smack each other around since the day they were born. Another good rule of thumb is to stay off the streets in an urban area after midnight.
Looks like a HATE crime to me. Kill Whitey.
Prayers for the victim, his family and loved ones. RIP
Sounds like he was killed by encephalitis, or a random meteorite, instead of a purposeful human attack.
Felonious assault?????
The kid’s dead
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