4 teens charged with murder in Warren man’s death (interstate, controversial, Byrd)
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Whatever happened with just putting pennies on railroad tracks as kids?
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Toledo, Ohio — Four teenage boys will remain in an Ohio jail on murder charges in the death of a man struck by a sandbag thrown from an interstate overpass.
The boys, ages 13 to 15, appeared in juvenile court Wednesday in Toledo where they entered denial pleas to the murder charges.
Prosecutors filed the new charges Tuesday against the boys after 22-year-old Marquise Byrd died Friday at a hospital.
He had been sitting in the front passenger seat of a car traveling south on Interstate 75 in Toledo when a sandbag smashed through the windshield Dec. 19.
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
I agree, claymoore. I don't know what was going through their heads, whether any of them have records, etc., but none of that would justify trying them as adults to me.
I think because it goes back to the 90s and the "superpredator scare," during which Clinton made some unfortunate remarks that came back to haunt her during last year's election. I'm not sure if Ohio specifically enacted laws about trying juveniles as adults in response to that whole thing, though.
What a horrifying way to go, poor guy (yes, I know he didn’t die immediately). This isn’t the first time this year kids have killed someone by dropping a heavy object from an overpass.
14 is old enough to know that if you throw rocks/bricks at people, someone will get hurt/killed.
I hope they serve their full sentences of life in prison. They killed a perfectly innocent man, riding in a car, minding his own business, for God's Sake!
I hope they serve their full sentences of life in prison.
They haven't been sentenced to life in prison. They might face life in prison.
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