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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : 15 - year - old convicted in Fenger beating case ...</span>
After deliberating about half an hour, jurors have convicted a 15-year-old boy of murder in the beating death of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert.Before the prosecution rested today, a deputy medical examiner testified that the boy's punch contributed to Albert's death.The teen punched Albert in the jaw, knocking him face first to the ground in the September 2009 brawl just blocks from the South Side school. Others then joined in, stomping, kicking and beating Albert, 16, with boards. Dr. Hilary McElligott, a forensic pathologist at the Cook County medical examiner's office, told jurors that Albert died of brain trauma from the beating and found that the defendant's punch was a contributing factor in his death.When questioned by the teen's attorney, McElligott acknowledged she could not say that the punch was the sole cause of his death or caused any of the damage to his brain. The boy on trial was charged as a juvenile in part because he was 14 at the time of the melee. Four others await trial as adults in the slaying.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : 15 - year - old convicted in Fenger beating case ...</span>
After deliberating about half an hour, jurors have convicted a 15-year-old boy of murder in the beating death of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert.Before the prosecution rested today, a deputy medical examiner testified that the boy's punch contributed to Albert's death.The teen punched Albert in the jaw, knocking him face first to the ground in the September 2009 brawl just blocks from the South Side school. Others then joined in, stomping, kicking and beating Albert, 16, with boards. Dr. Hilary McElligott, a forensic pathologist at the Cook County medical examiner's office, told jurors that Albert died of brain trauma from the beating and found that the defendant's punch was a contributing factor in his death.When questioned by the teen's attorney, McElligott acknowledged she could not say that the punch was the sole cause of his death or caused any of the damage to his brain. The boy on trial was charged as a juvenile in part because he was 14 at the time of the melee. Four others await trial as adults in the slaying.