A pathologist says the single punch a teenage boy threw at a Chicago high school honor student during a 2009 mob brawl contributed to the student’s death.
CHICAGO (AP) — A pathologist says the single punch a teenage boy threw at a Chicago high school honor student during a 2009 mob brawl contributed to the student’s death.
Dr. Hilary McElligott testified Wednesday during the trial of a 15-year-old boy charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert. The boy is one of five people charged in the Fenger High School student’s slaying, which was captured on a video shown around the world.
He’s the first to stand trial and isn’t being identified because he’s charged as a juvenile.
The teen’s attorney acknowledges the boy hit Albert but says that didn’t cause the other teen to die. McElligott testified that all the blows contributed to Albert’s death.
Prosecutors have rested their case.
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(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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