[VermiciousKnid]

I don't even know what to say about this, though I wonder where this 15-year-old got the idea that giving his brother a lousy cigarette was a hanging offense (if the victim even DID it at all).

Sickening.

Regards,

[San Jacinto]

I wonder where this 15-year-old got the idea that giving his brother a lousy cigarette was a hanging offense

Bill and Hillary?

[aruanan]

15-year-old boy who thought the victim had given cigarettes to the older boy's little brother, authorities said.

D.A.R.E. claims another victim.

[cynicom]

People here on FR will tell you the boy should have gone to the gym and learned to fight back.

[VoiceOfBruck]

Gene Correia said his son, Gene Correia Jr., who was with Shane when the attack happened, told investigators the older boy had been looking for Shane for four days.

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The 15-year-old boy was being held at the Department of Juvenile Justice in Daytona Beach on a second-degree murder charge.

Sounds like 1st degree to me.

[Just another Joe]

"Please don't; no, no," Shane pleaded as the older boy repeatedly kicked him, according to the father of a witness.

Is he taking the word of his son or was he a witness also?
If he WAS a witness, why didn't he stop it?
Another sign of decay in the body of America.

[lsee]

Gang related?

[RightOnline]

Little beast deserves to be taken out of society.......and you can interpret that any way you wish.

Sometimes there ARE such things as "bad seed". The gene pool definitely needs some cleaning out..........

[Illbay]

I KNEW this was going to be an "anti-smoking is bad" thread.

Some of you need to go read the poem about the blind men and the elephant.

[kellynla]

This is just too sad. You wonder how people can be so violent and I bet the boy who beat this kid up has been beaten up by one or both of his parents too. Violence begets violence.

[Tacis]

Once we learn the race of the vic and the perp, we can determine if this a hate crime or not.

In 20 years, we'll look back on this posting. In 20 years, Fla will be trying to execute a menatlly retarded killer who was a child when he stomped another kid to death. The Pope, most of Hollywood, Mumia Adul Kopkiller (yep, he'll still be alive), and the usual suspects will be protesting and we'll look back to the day it happened.

[Wolfie]

StraightEdgers do this sort of thing all the time. Maybe the movement has taken on some new targets.

[gilor]

Sounds like this thug was just looking for a fight and had a 'reason' to be used as justification.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Please don't; no, no," Shane pleaded as the older boy repeatedly kicked him, according to the father of a witness.

My God...I am in tears as I type this...thinking of my own 13 year old son. If I were the father of this victim, I would be inconsolable. When I got my wits about me...there would be no place on Earth this 15 year old piece of human shit could hide from me. Nowhere.

[maxwell]

15-year-old boy who thought the victim had given cigarettes to the older boy's little brother, authorities said.

Yeah whatever. The kid was (1) looking for a fight, or (2) seriously whacked, or (3) both of above. This had nothing to do with tobacco or unwarranted use thereof.

[Great Dane]

Sad to say, it's the kind of extreme hate people learn from fanatics, it's almost like saying, if it's a smoker anything goes........ never mind sad, it's scary.