Posted on 01/15/2006 4:22:38 PM PST by paulat
Fla. Teens Surrender in Homeless Beatings
By DENISE KALETTE, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Two South Florida teens suspected in the beatings of three homeless men turned themselves in to police Sunday, authorities said.
Family attorneys negotiated the surrender of Brian Hooks, 18, and Thomas S. Daugherty, 17.
They will face murder charges in the death of Norris Gaynor and aggravated battery charges in the videotaped beating of Jacques Pierre, said Capt. Michael Gregory of the Fort Lauderdale police.
They also are suspects in the beating of a third man, Raymond Perez, 49, whose case remains under investigation, Gregory said.
The teens were in police custody pending official charges from a grand jury, Gregory said. Police also were investigating whether the two may have been involved in other beatings and if they had accomplices.
"We do know there have been other assaults of homeless in Fort Lauderdale," Gregory said.
Pierre, 58, was beaten on the Fort Lauderdale campus of Florida Atlantic University. Gaynor, 45, was killed a few blocks away, and Perez, 49, was beaten in a Church-by-the-Sea garden.
It was not immediately clear if Perez and Pierre remained hospitalized Sunday.
they should crash through their door in the middle of the night,then beat the hell out of then with bats like they did to that homeless man. an eye for an eye.
What on earth possessed them to do this? It is just awful to see that beating on film. Thugs..just terrible.
Great that they surrendered. Now execute them.
COT (caught on tape). More ammo for 'Big Brother' cheerleaders.
I can suggest a few things I'd like to put THROUGH these "kids'" minds.
Like bullets from a .45!
Execute these punks.
My God, are their parents permanently out-to-lunch?
Looks like the prison at Manila. I only wish these punks would be sent to a Filipino prison!
Don't worry about that part, the local inmates will be having all kinds of fun with these two.
good,i hope they end up being someones little bitch@@s
Years of violent video games, death metal music and gangster rap.
Distant, permissive and absent parents who do not take their children to church and look the other way when they display their cruel nature.
A society that fails to hold children responsible for their failures until it is too late.
Reminded me of this scene from Clockwork Orange...
sorry,but the death metal,video games had nothing to do with it.maybe parents not being there,i might believe that. but it's in them from birth.i've listened to matel for a long time and i don't want to beat someone with a ball bat.neither do my kids.they're screwed up from day one.don't blame it on something else
Funny. From those eyes, I think I could finger a thug and an idiot who thought beating the homeless "was a good idea at the time".
APf
Meth. Or crack.
Funny, the national murder rate has dropped pretty steadily for the entire avaliablilty of (realistic) violent video games, most of the history of gangsta rap, especially its popularity amoung whites, and much of the history of "death metal."
Sadly enough, I don't think so. It looks like just pure evil. I bet they started on small animals very early.
I want to know what their parents are like.
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