She grew up in the neighborhood that has drawn national attention since a video captured Albert, a 16-year-old honor student, ...

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The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling ...

The vicious beating death of 16-year-old high school honor student Derrion Albert by a gang of teens wielding railroad ties shocked the nation when a cell phone video of it went viral. Today one of ...

An 18-year-old accused in last month’s videotaped beating death of Derrion Albert was released from prison this evening after prosecutors dropped the murder charges against him. A smiling Eugene ...

Derrion Albert, 16, was killed in 2009. Five people faced charges in his murder. A jury found the fifth and final defendant, 20-year-old Lapoleon Colbert, guilty of first degree murder after ...

A Cook County jury deliberated for three and a half hours before reaching their verdict Tuesday night. Shannon will be sentenced on February 14. He is one of four people charged as an adult in the ...

Eugene Riley pleaded not guilty. He is one of five young men charged in the September 2009 deadly beating of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert. Albert was on his way home when he got caught up ...

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