Youth Beaten to Death After Shooting at Group

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/nyregion/youth-beaten-to-death-after-shooting-at-group.html

Youth Beaten to Death After Shooting at Group
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
At the sprawling Edenwald Houses, the largest housing project in the Bronx, memorials to the victims of gang violence are common. There were two on a recent day, one for a young man nicknamed Smooth who was shot to death a few years earlier.

A message on it read, “Thug N Peace.”

There might have been a few more memorials had Antonio Lyles, a 17 -year-old from a rival apartment complex, struck any of his presumed targets.

On Monday afternoon, Mr. Lyles opened fire with a .32 caliber semiautomatic pistol on a group of young men standing in front of a building in the Edenwald project, the police said. When he failed to hit anyone, and perhaps ran out of bullets, witnesses and the police said, his targets gave chase.

What followed, the police said, was an immediate act of retribution that, in a neighborhood known for gun violence, was unusual in its sustained brutality.

For seven blocks Mr. Lyles was pursued, running in the direction of his home at 1320 Hicks Street. He was about halfway there when they caught him near East 222nd Street and Schiefflin Avenue. It was just after 3 p.m.

He did not have much of a chance. Witnesses in the area said his pursuers numbered 10 to 15, mostly young men, but also a few women. They set to work on him by the side of the road, “stomping” on him for at least five minutes, said one witness, declining to be named for fear of retribution.

At some point, someone picked up a rock and bashed Mr. Lyles several times in the head, the police said. That ended it.

By the time the police arrived, Mr. Lyles was barely coherent, writhing in a pool of blood, witnesses said.

Mr. Lyles was taken to Jacobi Medical Center where he lingered on for another 13 hours or so and was pronounced dead at 4:18 a.m. on Tuesday.

The police arrested two young men on Tuesday in connection with the beating. Ezequiel Pena, 20, and Stanley Hampton, 18, both of the Edenwald Houses, were charged with murder, manslaughter, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon. They are being held without bail.

To some in the neighborhood, the killing was not especially noteworthy, nothing that would distinguish itself from others in the area’s scarred memory.

“It happens everyday,” said Anna Luciano, 50, who said she instinctively dropped to the floor at the sound of gunshots.

Ms. Luciano said Mr. Lyles’s killing would most likely set off a cycle of revenge, leaving more people dead. “I just say let them all kill themselves,” she said.

A resident who said he knew Mr. Pena and Mr. Hampton said that both were in a gang, as are many young people in the development. But he said they were not “bad kids.”

The resident, who like most would not give his name, had little sympathy for Mr. Lyles.

“He got street justice,” he said. “You live by the gun, you die by the gun.”

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

What's the point of posting this? Dude started shooting into a group of people, missed, and got stomped to death. Sounds like street justice to me.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

 

[Serious]

the group stood(stomped) their ground

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Stand your ground, brehs.​

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Do you ever have a feeling all of these demonic stories will one day be used to make other communities complicit in the annihilation of the african american community, friends? Studies and awareness seem to be heavily dedicated to crime of african americans, the brains of african americans and corralations between genetics and crime in african americans.

Its so demonic, friends.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

The resident, who like most would not give his name, had little sympathy for Mr. Lyles.

“He got street justice,” he said. “You live by the gun, you die by the gun.”

 

[Solomon Caine]

He clearly wasn't prepare for the mission. What an armature.

 

[NZA]

pick a wack gun, pack light on ammo, and dont spend any time at the shooting range, brehs

 

[tru_m.a.c]

the x is crazy

 

[LionofJudah]

Now judging from the responses of this story, most people feel it was okay for them to do that. White people swear up and down that we condone murder of Blacks on white and don't care about Black on Black crime, but in reality, we simply stand for Justice no matter who the perpetrator is. It's sad that this young man lost his life and whatnot, but getting killed after he allegedly tried to shoot multiple people was his judgement. Had the crowd had been white, everyone would feel the same (except for me, in that case I wish he would have had better aim).

 

[livindajetlife]

nikka ain't hit nobody tho

 

[mrken12]

nikka ain't hit nobody tho

He was on his Mr. T/A-Team shyt.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Ms. Luciano said Mr. Lyles’s killing would most likely set off a cycle of revenge, leaving more people dead. “I just say let them all kill themselves,” she said.

 

[Broke Wave]

Do you ever have a feeling all of these demonic stories will one day be used to make other communities complicit in the annihilation of the african american community, friends? Studies and awareness seem to be heavily dedicated to crime of african americans, the brains of african americans and corralations between genetics and crime in african americans.

Its so demonic, friends.

Huge chance these young men were hispanics....