Opening statements are scheduled Tuesday in the trial of a 14-year-old boy accused in the fatal beating of Derrion Albert.
The teen’s identity is being withheld because his
is a minor. Four others have been charged as adults and are awaiting trial.
Albert, a 16-year-old honor student at Fenger High
School, was pummeled to death Sept. 24, 2009 during a melee blocks away from the
South Side high school.
The heinous beating was captured on amateur video.
The video received national attention, including from the White House.
President Barack Obama dispatched to Chicago the U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder and the nation’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, who is the former CEO
of Chicago Public Schools.
Copyright 2010 Chicago Defender
