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Cleveland - As Demesha Sharp, 15, and Christian Hardick, 16, were walking to a bus station near East 140th Street and Darley Avenue, an SUV reportedly tried to run them down, striking Christian. A 17-year-old girl, her 38-year-old mother and 52-year-old grandmother and a 19-year-old male relative then got out of the vehicle and attacked Demesha with electric stun guns and knives. Christian was stabbed three times in the back. Demesha was stabbed in the stomach and died. Others at the scene tried to help but were held back by the attackers, whom witnesses said were armed with stun guns, bats, bricks, pepper spray and guns.

Demesha knew the girl who killed her as she had been bullied by the 17-year-old girl in school. Tensions between the two had escalated over the summer.  Relatives stated that the teenage suspect had been "bothering and bullying" Demesha for about a year but that until SaturdaySaturday reviews, there had been no fights.

With the help of residents and witnesses, the occupants in the SUV were identified and actively helped police determine exactly what had happened and even led police to the house in which two of the suspects lived. The The suspects turned themselves in to police around 1 p.m. SundaySunday reviews after the grandmother of the suspect, and driver of the SUV, had contacted PeacePeace reviews in the Hood, an anti-crime group, and said she wanted to turn herself in.