The final of 5 younger ladies convicted within the brutal stomping dying of a 64-year-old man in Washington, D.C., acquired one of many harshest sentences among the many teen assailants.
Decide Kendra Briggs sentenced the 14-year-old lady to serve out a seven-year time period in a restricted facility, stating that the teenager “delivered among the most vicious blows” that in the end led to the dying of Reggie Brown.
Authorities discovered Brown’s physique in an alley on Oct. 17, 2023. A health worker concluded that Brown, a bodily disabled man with most cancers and lupus who lived in northwest D.C., died from blunt pressure trauma to the pinnacle, which resulted in a mind bleed. His dying was dominated as a murder.
A number of months after his dying, police introduced that 5 ladies, all between the ages of 12 and 15, had been behind the vicious beating. Authorities mentioned the group chased Brown into an alley the place they beat, punched, and stomped him to dying.
All 5 both pleaded responsible or had been convicted of varied crimes, together with second-degree homicide, assault with a harmful weapon, and conspiracy to commit assault.
One of many teen attackers was remanded to a youth rehabilitation facility till she turns 21. The youngest of the group, a woman who was 12 on the time of the assault, will serve time in a detention facility till she’s 20.
One other lady will likely be in custody till she’s 21 and the 15-year-old lady, the oldest of the group, was sentenced to a few years in jail for assault with a harmful weapon after taking a plea deal.
After the ultimate sentencing, WUSA9 spoke with Brown’s sisters.
“She bought juvenile life. That’s all that they can provide her. They will solely keep incarcerated till they’re 21,” mentioned Nasia Israel, Brown’s sister.
“Till they begin in all probability making these dad and mom held accountable for what their kids do, then it’ll be a greater world,” Malda Brown added. “I hope and pray that these younger folks on the market that’s having these children. I pray and hope they be taught some instilling values of their kids. They keep dwelling and train their kids and provides them steerage.”
Decide Kendra Briggs commented on the emotional toll Brown’s household suffered throughout this case.
“A detailed has come to this legal case, however there isn’t a closure for the households concerned,” Briggs mentioned.
The 15-year-old confessed that shortly earlier than the assault, she proposed that the group “discover somebody to beat up … as a result of we had been bored.”
As the ladies had been strolling by way of D.C.’s Brightwood neighborhood, a person who was already attacking Brown invited them to hitch in on the assault.
One lady took selfies on the crime scene and one other later despatched a voice message to a buddy bragging concerning the beating. After prosecutors performed a recording of the message in court docket, Briggs mentioned the lady “talked about homicide as if it was like making a sandwich.”
Authorities are nonetheless on the lookout for the person who attacked Brown first. He stays unidentified and at giant.
