A 59-year-old man has died from injuries suffered during an attack by two teenage brothers prompted by the man's refusal to give them a dollar.
John Weed was attending the Great Frederick Fair in Maryland on Friday with his family when he was approached by the teens, ages 15 and 16. According to the prosecution, the 15-year-old sucker-punched Weed after he refused to give them a dollar, knocking him unconscious. Video evidence of the attack shows chaos and laughter in moments after Weed hits the pavement; one of the boys even spits on his lifeless body.
Medics flew the victim to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, 4 NBC Washington reported on Monday. Weed succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, according to the local sheriff’s office.
"I think it's despicable, and it tells me a lot about how these young people view this person by the very fact after they had him on the ground they taunted and they spit on him," Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said, according to 4 NBC Washington. "That to me shows hatred and disgust and despise."
The 15-year-old teen who landed the sucker punch has been charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment. His 16-year-old brother landed a second-degree assault, according to authorities.
The attackers are being charged as juveniles, but prosecution might push for the teens to be tried as adults, the NBC affiliate reported.
"I've been doing this for close to thirty years," said Frederick County State’s Attorney Charlie Smith. "There’s plenty of times where good people make bad decisions, but when they result in somebody’s death, you get punished."
When Sheriff Jenkins was asked by a reporter what the "appropriate punishment" should be for the boys "given their age," he sternly replied, "The maximum."
"They made an adult decision by doing what they did and ended up with a man losing his life, the sister losing a brother, whatever," he said. "They deserve the maximum penalty."
The video of the vicious attack picked up traffic online on Sunday. However, the account that initially posted the video erroneously framed the attack as black teens defending themselves from a "white supremacist." The video post has been viewed over 230,000 times and garnered nearly 2,000 likes.
A white supremacist tried to racially antagonize a group of Black kids at the Frederick Fair in MD. He started calling them the N-word, and one of the kids, fearing for his life, punched the racist man. The white supremacist later died and two innocent Black victims were charged pic.twitter.com/uw56d6Cn0V — Church Of Ogun (@ChurchofOgun) September 23, 2019
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There are also other malicious and libelous sources on this story for the race hustlers to spread around on Fakebook and to the Twits.
Death / Obituaries : John Weed suspected white supremacist beaten to death in Maryland fair.
Notice that all of the white media is getting on code and telling the same LIE about this case. A suspected white supremacist named John Weed racially harassed & spit on some Black kids. And one of the kids defended himself. So it was 100% “provoked” https://t.co/pGq7BsQRY4
Tariq Nasheed @tariqnasheed Notice that all of the white media is getting on code and telling the same LIE about this case. A suspected white supremacist named John Weed racially harassed & spit on some Black kids. And one of the kids defended himself. So it was 100% “provoked” Two teens charged in ‘unprovoked’ beating death of man at Maryland fair Two teenagers were arrested over the weekend after a 59-year-old man was beaten to death at a Maryland fair. nydailynews.com
Feral animals dancing around like hyenas after the kill. No mercy on these two.
By the time this gets to court they will have a Tan Klan lawyer suggesting they get some sort of award for courage because it only took two of them to distract and sucker punch a old white man that wasn't even blind or crippled.
By the time this gets to court they will have a Tan Klan lawyer suggesting they get some sort of award for courage because it only took two of them to distract and sucker punch a old white man that wasn't even blind or crippled.
The online mob is really trying to poison the jury pool by flooding Twitter and Fakebook with the allegations that the victim was calling the yout's "nigger" and spit on them and that they attacked him only to defend themselves. They have podcasts and radio hosts that are pumping this out, just trying to poison the jury pool and raise the incentives for the MD state prosecutor to let them their wrists slapped in juvenile court and not try them as adults. And it just might work too.
