- Teens Pounded Near SLAM! Charter School in Little Havana, Miami
- Victim Christopher López described agonizing injuries to his head and face
- Both victims required hospital treatment following the April 18 attack.
Two Miami students were hospitalized after a brutal beating by a group of schoolchildren, and one of the suspects was even seen using brass knuckles.
The young people were attacked near the SLAM! Charter School in Little Havana on Thursday.
The sickening encounter was caught on video and showed the two students huddled on the ground as the gang threw punches at them.
‘It hurts right here because this is where they hit me. And right here on the chin,’ said one of the victims, Christopher López. NBC.
The video shows Lopez and a friend lying on the ground while several other teens punch and kick them.
Two Miami students were hospitalized after a brutal beating by a group of schoolchildren, and one suspect was even seen using brass knuckles.
Victim Christopher Lopez described how he fainted during the terrifying attack which left him needing hospital treatment.
After the crowd disperses, the victims are seen lying limp with cries of “My God” in the background.
Lopez, who is still battered and bruised, said the beating had left him with severe pain in his jaw and nose.
He explained that he and a friend were attacked in an unprovoked attack.
‘I asked him: “Are they coming for us?” After that, I fainted; I do not remember anything. I felt like I was in a dream. As if he were on the ground; I couldn’t feel anything. “I woke up and people were telling me I was going to be okay,” she said.
Miami police are now investigating the disturbing incident and calling on anyone near NW 12th Avenue and 5th Street, where the attack occurred, to come forward.
The incident shocked students at the school, who complained that there has been an increase in unruly behavior lately.
“What I saw was really a disaster, they should be charged,” said a seventh grader.
Parents said they were so afraid that they started picking up their children early from school.
Miami police are investigating after it was learned that one of the attackers was carrying brass knuckles.
The young people were attacked near the SLAM! Charter School in Little Havana on Thursday
The children say they were subjected to an unprovoked attack that was caught on video.
PICTURED: Kaylee Gain, 16, who is thankfully walking again after getting into a fight with a schoolmate, which left her in critical condition.
“I feel a little weird because too many things happened, like murders and violence, and I feel like it should stop because it’s not right,” one parent said.
The incident comes on the heels of the brutal beating suffered by 16-year-old Kaylee Gain, who was left in a coma after getting into a fight with another teenager.
Gain suffered a fractured skull and damage to her frontal lobe during the violent March 8 fight that was caught on camera near her high school, but she has since been released from the intensive care unit.
These fights are just a few of the thousands of incidents of teen violence that occur every day in the United States, according to federal data.
The government agency Youth.gov also states that 20 percent of high school students reported being bullied on campus in the past year.