Three girls between the ages of 12 and 13 have been charged in connection with the beating death of a 64-year-old man in the nation’s capital late last year, and the youngest suspect was wounded in the leg in a mysterious shooting before she was taken into custody.
The arrests come nearly six months after Reggie Brown, a resident of Northwest D.C., was found beaten to death on Oct. 17, 2023.
During a court hearing last week, Detective Harry Singleton played the disturbing video, showing a man in a blue coat initially throwing Brown, a near elderly man with disabilities, to the pavement before the assailants pounded the victim.
According to the Washington Post, one witness said one of the girls asked the man, “Can I fight him?”
A group of five girls then chased Brown, into alley and as he tried to climb up a chain fence, pulled him down and stomped his head into the pavement. Yet, that wasn’t enough, they pulled his pants down around his ankles, removed his belt and beat him with it, the Post reported.
“He’s leaking,” one of the girls says joyously, as Brown reportedly lay in a pool of own blooding before they walked away.
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The 12-year-old recorded the beating on her cellphone, the Post reports. One of the girls told police that two of them did not want to take part in flogging, but was forced to after the unidentified man threatened to shoot them with a gun he flashed on his waist.
Singleton said Brown also had mental health issues, a metal plate in his head and only two fingers on each hand, The Post reports.
One of the 13-year-old suspects was taken into custody on March 28, while a second 13-year-old and 12-year-old were apprehended the next day. None of the suspects have a criminal record but have histories of chronic absenteeism from school.
The suspects have not been identified by authorities because…
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