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Chicago Student's Beating Death Caught on Tape

Police beef up patrols after savage gang melee

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 28, 2009 4:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – Chicago police are stepping up patrols today at a high school where a 16-year-old honor student's gruesome beating death in a gang melee was captured on video. Students scream in horror as Derrion Albert crumples to the ground and covers his head in vain as... Read full story »

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