A horde of teenage girls chased and bludgeoned an elderly disabled man to death in Confederacy in Washington, DC, attacking the victim because they were “bored” and looking for something to do.
The vicious assault that left 64-year-old Reggie Brown dead in 2023 was committed by a group of five teenage girls aged between 12 and 15.
On October 17, 2023, the girls were looking for something to do in Silver Spring, Maryland after spending time at a local skate park.
“I found someone to hit,” the 15-year-old recalled in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Wednesday. According to WUSA.
“Why did you propose that to the group?” asked Gabriel Logalio, a prosecutor with the D.C. Attorney General's Office.
“Because I was bored,” said the girl, who declined to be identified because of her age.
The eldest of the group, a 15-year-old girl who admitted to the murder last week, was called to the stand to testify in the case of her two accomplices.
Shortly after 11 p.m., the group of misfits arrived at Georgia Avenue and Sheridan Street in Washington, D.C.'s Brightwood neighborhood, where they spotted a stranger attacking Brown and asked if they could jump in.
As the attackers talked, Brown began to run away, but the five girls and a new male accomplice caught up with him and pulled him from the fence he was holding onto, making no attempt to run away.
The 15-year-old girl's 13-year-old sister, who recorded the attack on her cell phone, led Brown to her side, and video surveillance captured her chasing him as she was punched and kicked by the assailants. It was getting worse.
They stomped his head on concrete, then pulled his pants down to his ankles and beat him with a belt, investigators testified in court in March. According to the Washington Post.
Brown was found dead in the street just before 1 a.m., suffering from severe injuries from the assault. According to the Metropolitan Police Department.
“Damn, it's leaking!” one girl could be heard screaming, according to the report.
After the girls' relatives left the courtroom, they were shown horrifying footage of Brown lying defenseless on the ground as the girls continued to kick and taunt him as he bled.
Brown's death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the head that caused bleeding in the brain.
“He's dead,” the 15-year-old recalled thinking as she walked away from the fatal attack.
Investigators said she was the least aggressive in her attack on Brown, kicking her once in the torso, and was the first of the group to be sentenced last week. WUSA9 reported.
In a plea agreement, she pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, but the charge was downgraded from the second-degree murder charge.
The teenager was sentenced to three years in secure custody.
The coroner's office determined that Brown's ultimate cause of death was a kick to the head.
According to district law, the maximum sentence for juveniles convicted in Washington, D.C., is imprisonment until the age of 21.
There are no jury trials for juveniles in the capital.
D.C. Senior Judge Kendra Briggs will deliver her verdict on the teens.
“Today's young woman was remorseful. She showed empathy and apologized to the family,” Brown's sister Marda Brown said after the 15-year-old was sentenced. “So I think Judge Briggs made a great decision on behalf of our family today.”
Lawyers for the youngest girl, who was 12 years old at the time of the incident, claim she was misidentified by the other suspects.
