Caution: Video is extremely disturbing.

Derrion Albert, a black honor student from Fenger High School was beaten to death as he was walking home from school. The 3 suspects, also students from the same school have since been arrested.

Albert was whacked over the head with a large wooden plank and was knocked out briefly. When he woke up, a group attacked him. One allegedly used a railroad tie again to strike him and another stomped on his head several times till he succumbed to death.

This is an atrocious crime and it’s made worse because it happened in broad daylight. What has this world come to? The mothers of the suspects have responded to the the crime that their sons have commited. It’s heartbreaking wondering what’s going through these women’s minds…

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One tearfully said she could not bear to look at the video. The other regretfully acknowledged it was her son on the video depicting the fatal beating of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert, 16.

“That’s Gene. That’s my son. I’m not going to lie about that,” said Sherry Smith, the mother of Eugene Riley, 18, one of four teens charged in the attack. “I do give my condolences to that family because (their) child shouldn’t have lost his life over this.”

Riley and Fenger students Silvonus Shannon, 19, and Eric Carson, 16, were charged Monday with murder and ordered held without bail. Eugene Bailey, 18, was charged later Monday.

A Cook County prosecutor said Albert’s death was a result of a brawl between two neighborhood groups, one from the Altgeld Garden public housing complex and the other from the neighborhood known as the “Ville.”

Carson, who is from the Ville and is charged as an adult, was the first to strike Albert on the head, using a long railroad tie, Assistant State’s Attorney Jodi Peterson said. Albert was knocked out briefly, and when he woke up, a group from Altgeld attacked him. Riley allegedly used a railroad tie again to strike him and Shannon stomped on his head several times, Peterson said.

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Gang fights are absolutely and utterly unnecessary. It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re big major idiot for hurting someone. Condolences to Derrion Albert’s family.