Posted on 12/27/2017 1:23:19 PM PST by Simon Green
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.
The four Ohio teens are awaiting confirmation of their next court date.
"It's not fun and games. I mean, people are losing their lives," Warren police commissioner Bill Dwyer said. "And the consequences for these kids that think it's fun and games and a prank, they're gonna go to prison."
Prosecutors say given the ages of the boys, their case will likely remain in juvenile court. In addition to the murder charges, the boys are facing charges of felony vehicular vandalism.
Filthy little sob’s.
I’ve lived in both Toledo and Flint.
Guess I’m real lucky I never took a shot from an overpass.
Life in prison. Period. Send a national message so this finally stops. that poor widow and 2 year old.
Driving through Atlanta and someone dropped a cinder block off an overpass.
Thankfully, they didn’t have one of those fancy Nordan bomb sights and they dropped it too early.
Someone on another thread on this subject (on a different board) said the maximum penalty for a juvenile convicted of murder in Ohio is, in fact, life (with the possibility of parole).
Okay.
If Obama had 4 sons.
Shouldn’t they have just thrown the 4 boys off the overpass??
I still remember the first Saturday Night Live Christmas Show.
There was a murder that was in the news and the murderer’s name was Gary Gilmore.
The cast sang a beautiful carol.
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
Let’s throw Gary on there, too.”
I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair.
I’m guessing:
Quantavious
DeMarcus
LaShawn
Tyrese
Good. Hang them from the bridge and leave the bodies there to rot.
From the skin color of their hands looks like blacks. Notice how the white teens get full disclosure, but camera’s hid these guys’ ID.
Ohio has chain link fencing on all highway overpasses. Are these kids climbing the fence while carrying a sandbag?
Sean, William, Pedro, Demetrius.
Sean Carter, 14, William Parker, 14, Pedro Salinas, 13, and Demetrius Wimberly, 14, have been charged as adults, which means they face up to life in prison
Sean Carter, 14, William Parker, 14, Pedro Salinas, 13, and Demetrius Wimberly, 14
Are you 100% certain that every overpass in Ohio has chain-link fencing?
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