The fifth and final defendant has been found guilty for the brutal beating death of Chicago teen Derrion Albert. As previously reported, video surfaced in 2009 of the honor student being beaten to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Now that the five people accused of beating to death her son have been convicted, the mother of Derrion Albert is speaking out. Anjanette Albert tells FOX Chicago News she believes ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Again and again defense attorneys and prosecutors played the same graphic video of 16-year-old Derrion Albert being beaten to death — grainy, shaky and just a few minutes long. The two ...

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