A 15-year-old white boy has pleaded guilty to trying to drown a black teenager in a Cape Cod pond while spewing racial slurs. A friend laughed and called the victim, who couldn't breathe, “George Floyd.”
Violent tormentor John Sheeran, who was 14 at the time of the July 2023 attack, threw rocks at his 15-year-old victim, forced him into a pond, and then punched the boy in the head while calling him the “N-word”. Prosecutors said he pushed the man into the water. .
Sheeran pleaded guilty in Barnstable Juvenile Court to attempted murder and assault with a dangerous weapon, and a judge could sentence him as an adult, the Cape Cod Times reported. In any case, it was not immediately clear what sentence Sheeran might receive.
The Times reported that an alleged accomplice of Sheeran's child was charged with harassment after he allegedly laughed and taunted the victim while she begged for her life. The teen, who is also white, will be charged as a juvenile.
The disease's attack began last July when the victim and Sheeran met at a pond in Chatham, Massachusetts.
According to reports, Sheeran threw rocks at the victim and forced the boy, who could not swim and was wearing a life jacket, into the water. Boston Globe.
Mr Sheeran then swam up to him, dunked his head repeatedly under the water and called him the “n-word,” while his assailant's friend “started laughing and calling me George Floyd and clearly yelling at him.” He made fun of me and showed no remorse at all,” the accuser wrote. Also the police report Watch on NBC10.
A witness, also a minor, told police that he heard the victim ask Sheeran not to splash water on her or push her because she couldn't swim. Onlookers also said they “saw shoving” between Sheeran and his alleged accomplice. [the victim’s] The victim was “screaming for help. He put his head under water.”
“When we finally approached them, they were grinning,” a witness wrote of the two attackers.
