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Teen dies after being thrown to the ground, hitting head in Cambridge

By adamg on Mon, 07/23/2018 - 11:11pm

Cambridge Day reports on an incident on Cambridge Street yesterday.

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By MC Slim JB on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:15am.

you think about throwing hands with someone over a spilled beer at a bar or a stolen parking space.

A childhood friend of mind got shoved off his bike by a much bigger dude at the playground, suffered a traumatic brain injury that nearly killed him and took years to recover from fully. He was lucky: my bud has since led a rich and fulfilling life, but it easily could have gone the other way.

Violence isn't never the answer, but you'd better be damned certain the stakes are worth it. Teeth don't grow back. You're better off with two functioning eyes and an uncracked skull. An assault or manslaughter charge will likely be a stubborn stain on your life, and a conviction may ruin it and grievously affect a much broader circle of people: your loved ones, the person you fucked up, their loved ones. If you're not a shit human being, living with the extended consequences of your momentary flash of rage, on the living and the dead, has to be hell on earth.

By anon on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 8:13am.

In the heat of the moment, you're not thinking about those things.

Perhaps if people had 15, 30 more seconds to think, they wouldn't go down this path.

By anon on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 10:00am.

Teens get physical with one another and accidents can happen. I had strict rules on my dudes about paying attention to surroundings when wrassling.

By anon on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 4:13pm.

It's not normal for a teen to kill another teen and it never has been. Teach your kids to keep their hands to themselves:

By anon on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 9:45pm.

Otherwise, you would know better.

Teach yourself to not comment about things when your have no idea.

By cinnamngrl on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:05pm.

this comment has nothing to do with the facts of this case.

I would suggest that there is very little that is worth violence, but it is always wrong to presume the motives involved. This article describes a 15 year old girl that was assaulted and robbed, subsequently losing her life.

By whyaduck on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:12pm.

originally, they thought she was robbed now it appears it was not the case.

By cinnamngrl on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 3:45pm.

The Tweets said it wasn't a robbery. That is no where near saying that this victim did anything.

By Jeff F on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:28pm.

lethal assault = violence (in most folk's book).

Given that it turns out that the victim wasn't robbed(*), I think it's reasonable to suspect that anger, and not greed, played a primary role in this tragedy.

(*) From the article adam ref'ed (emphasis added):

Police initially said via Twitter that they were looking for a suspect – described as a black male – who had robbed the girl of her purse and fled towards Boston on Cambridge Street; they corrected that some 11 hours later, saying the incident was not believed to be a robbery...

By cinnamngrl on Tue, 07/31/2018 - 9:40am.

It is reasonable to assume that the attacker was angry but there is no information to support assumptions about the victims emotions. What is it about human nature that we hate all victims?

By JJ3 on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:50pm.

Thanks for this comment. We constantly see things in the media that make it look like it's normal and fine to get hit or knocked out, but like...in real life any physical blow is playing with fire.

Really sad story here.

By anon on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:34pm.

This young lady had her whole life ahead of her. Some violent POS stole that for no reason. Senseless.

By anon on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 4:05pm.

This could have been horseplay gone very badly wrong, followed by panic.

By bostnkid on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 4:45pm.

no description or gender given. definitely someone in cambridge riding a bike.

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 1:41pm.

Or just another speculative unsubstantiated rumor for the mill?

Even if this is true, it narrows it down to only 50,000 people in the area.

By bostnkid on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 4:48pm.

no speculation or unsubstantiated rumors here

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/07/police_seek_cycl...

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Cambridge-Massachusetts-Deadly-Assa...

By anon on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 2:39pm.

Investigators are looking to identify any witnesses to the incident and information concerning the identity of a person seen in the area on a bicycle.

The cyclist is a person of interest.

Unless you know something that you should be telling CPD, not us.

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 2:58pm.

They want to talk to this person.

NOWHERE does it say that he or she KILLED anyone.

It says this person was in the area and the cops want to identify them. Nothing more.

You're seriously jumping to conclusions.this is how lynchings happened. That is very dangerous ... would you step up as a witness if a bunch of twits branded you as a murderer? Or would you think twice no matter what you saw?

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 3:03pm.

Can you spike this entire run of comments, possibly replace with a summary of what the CPD is actually looking for?

There is nothing in any of this to indicate that the person that the cops are looking for is a suspect.

Thanks.