Three Ohio teenagers were charged with murder on Wednesday after they allegedly beat a 53-year-old man to death outside a grocery store.
Dionta Hughes, 18, Jamarion Evans-Bennett, 19, and Jayden Agee, 17, allegedly engaged in an altercation with other individuals inside a Kroger in Columbus on Dec. 6, the Columbus Division of Police told WBNS.
Security asked the teenagers to leave the store. Once they were outside, they allegedly engaged in another physical fight with Donald Smith Jr.
The teenagers are accused of waiting for Smith to leave the store before knocking him to the ground. They then allegedly began to punch, kick and stomp on Smith, according to the station.
The suspects fled after a witness with a gun yelled and told them to stop. The witness told police that the teenagers were allegedly laughing and enjoying themselves as they assaulted Smith.
Responding officers found Smith suffering from severe head injuries, according to court documents obtained by the station. He was unconscious and bleeding from his head.
He was taken to Grant Medical Center in critical condition and died from his injuries on Monday.
“Donnie was an amazing person,” Nicole Evans, Smith’s partner of 20 years, told WSYX. “He was a great father. He loved his kids. They were his world.”
Hughes, Evans-Bennett and Agee were arrested on murder charges on Wednesday. The charges were upgraded from felonious assault following Smith’s death, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
Smith’s death remains under investigation.
The system, it’s agencies, the juvenile justice system and the families failed these kids. Nicole. God Bless you and your children for ever more…
That they might be executed for their crimes is probably too much to hope for… but let’s see how much they laugh when they are told they will spend the remainder of their miserable lives behind bars. And let’s do hope they would never get parolled
Who raises complete trash like this? Probably another case of a one parent home with multiple fathers. If you decide to raise kids as a single parent don’t let them just run the streets or this is what you get.
Where’s the media outrage?!! Oh that’s
right, blacks committing murder don’t fit the narrative.
So a man is dead, and they think it is funny? How funny will it be when they are locked up, and a big dude wants to kick their sorry asses? Hope it happens to each and every one of them!! Actually, I think they should be locked up and starved to death, that is what they deserve!!
Africans are killing yankees too? WOW !
I read everyday of murders in the south, so give it a rest!