Teen beaten to death caught on tape!!

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Three teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old boy whose beating was captured on amateur video.


Derrion Albert was beaten to death last week. His death was captured on video.

Nineteen-year-old Silvanus Shannon, 16-year-old Eric Carson and 18-year-old Eugene Riley were charged as adults with first degree felony murder, said Tandra Simonton, spokesperson for the Cook County States Attorney.

They are charged in the death of Derrion Albert, an honors student who was beaten to death last Thursday. An amateur videotape of the beating has been broadcast nationally.

It's unclear who shot the footage, but a local television station that received the tape turned it over to police.

The tape shows attackers wielding two-by-fours and punching and kicking a single person. At one point, four or five males are seen beating and stomping the same young man after he falls to the ground.

As the attackers run away, the person with the camera and several others approached Albert and carried him into a nearby building. "Derrion, get up!" a female voice pleads.

On Monday, family and friends, some wearing shirts bearing Albert's photo, held a vigil in his honor.

They asked the community to turn in anyone they knew who was a part of Albert's beating.

"What kind of person, what kind of individual, has such rage and such anger and such madness?" the Rev. Michael Pfleger said. "We've got to get to the hearts of our children, because nothing, nothing, excuses or justifies the actions of an individual who would beat another individual. Nothing justifies that in this society. "

Pfleger said it was time to make a change, so children aren't afraid to go to or from school.

He said this kind of teen violence was not just an issue for Chicago, but from "Oakland to Newark."

Ron Huberman, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, said he had met with Albert's classmates.

"How do we make sure this event doesn't become another event?" he said. "Another vigil on another day."

Huberman said he will fight every day to ensure the safety of children in Chicago's schools.

"We can promise them and we can say that we we will absolutely remember Derrion," he said.


Flanked by people holding signs with photos of a young child and the words "Don't shoot, I want to grow up," Pfleger pleaded for peace.

"It's time for guns, and it's time for two-by-fours to stop being the way we treat each other," he said.

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[snowwhiteking291]

martin luther king would not be pleased =p

[lindsaymika97]

i hope and pray for all the victims of things like this because it is just tragic; things like this are happening every day to innocent people. NO ONE deserves to be treated like that, like absolute shit.

[scottie311272]

ye he would

[Racingirl911]

So very sad... I can't help but think that if the family unit was stronger and more loving, these gangs would hold no attraction for our youth....so sad for everyone....

[Chyannskye]

Im fed up with my race....nothing but a bunch of savages that have nothing better to do with there time. This is the reason why some white people dont want to live next to our kind because of the savage behavior we portray. This is one of the many reasons why racism is still alive because we give them reason, such as this one to hate, because we hate ourselves...I love my black ppl but i hate niggas. Anyone who doesnt really understand what i am saying, dont respond.

[WolfSentry]

Gang, and riots the new Natural Selection, yes yes, kill yourselfs. 

[Tomniso1]

@1outdoorsE I am white and I am sad that a different race has died what is wrong with black people explain to me without calling them apes or niggers or anything stop hiding behind your curses and reply to this like the adult you are

[Tomniso1]

Ilikepuppiesbootie and outdoors see this fighting is what everyone is the same black people are not niggers and they are the same just darker get that through your messed up brains we were all created equally whites are white trash all we've caused in this world is trouble black person is born white people get selfish and call them names kill the. Just for being a different color. Think long and hard about this African and American people stop being such idiots and wake up to the real world and

[Hollyavh]

@ThePoorShogun Not all American's think or act this way, believe me, many of us hurt over the situation over here.

[SuperSkyster]

This is what's wrong with kids today, no discipline. An award for 90% attendance? That means he missed 27 days of school for an average school year. When I was a kid that would not have gotten me an award, that would have been failure, expulsion, and I would have gotten my ass whipped at home, with a belt, by a parent.

Parents, you need to use that belt once in a while, or your stupid ass kids are gonna go apeshit like this and end up in jail.

[TheGabreyell]

OMG! ;'[ This is my cousin! ;'[ Derrion Albert!

[Luv2Sing524]

the probably only saying gang violence cuz they all black thats messed up but they still shouldnt of beat up the boyz