Cancer Patient Beaten By Teen Dies After 18 Months In Coma

Imagine beating cancer up to that point, just to die needlessly at the hands of a pathetic teenager or two. Even if a racial slur was used, it’s not exactly justification for murder.

He should now be charged with murder.  I love the way he said they “MAY” file more charges. Are they serious??? MAY???? Get real.

I just love how this is the case when black teens in particular do something like this there is always that “He/She said a racial slur” as if THAT is going to make everyone say “Oh…okay we understand..” and pat the little fuckers on the back. 2 instances in my local area, both recent where the victim was accused of using a “racial slur” or saying “nigger”, One being a group of about 8 black males between the ages of 17 to 23 beat a 30 yr old white man half to death in front of a gas station. In court they claimed he called them “niggers” AND THEIR OWN COUSIN testified that was NOT true, the victim didn’t say ANYTHING to them. Racial or otherwise. Also a Mexican man was shot at 5 am in front of a church, waiting for a ride to work when 3 black males approached him and offered to sell some weed. The only one of the three hispanic males who could speak english said,basically “no thank you, we are in front of a church, we don’t do that here, and to please leave”, to which the driver told him “you don’t tell me where to go”, and shot him point blank, and he died…Later in court the shooter claimed the Hispanic male said a racial slur, which all 5 of the other witnesses (including the ones in the car with the shooter said) was bullshit. So is this the new trend? Wheter or not 1,000 racial slurs occur in the course of 5 minutes, words are words, physical is a different thing all together. I just don’t get how these young men think if they pull the race card in this instance it makes it okay. Do they think Jesse Jackson is gonna march for them if they throw that lil’ tid bit in after the fact? And how hard core can you be at 16 and 14 to “jump’ A sickly older man?
And let me add before it gets twisted later, that I have a mixed daughter, so I don’t need a bunch of posts telling me I am racist, that would be a litttle silly. I hate everyone equally.

I’m thinking it may be difficult to prove that the assault led directly to the death. Yes, on the surface it looks obvious, but Mr. Berry did have cancer at the time. We don’t know how aggressively his family had the doctors pursue the disease. First, the prosecution has to have laws under which to charge the perpetrators. Second, they have to hammer together an ironclad case. Third, they have to be prepared for every single decision made by Mr. Berry’s family with regards to his care & the pursuit of a cure for his cancer to be called into question by the defense and the defense’s medical experts. 

A lot can happen in a year and a half. They may be able to lock down the progression from assault to coma, but that intervening eighteen months between coma and death has a whole ocean of variables in it to complicate matters. 

its stories like this that remind me why I need to carry a gun. You can try and make me a victim but you will be the one in the hospital.

16 and on trial for murder.  *Sigh*, they grow up so fast.

what is up with these people saying someone threw the N word!? i remember in 2004 when i was in like 10th grade this ghetto ass chick threw a book and hit me square in the face. i defended myself and things didn’t exactly go her way so after school she and her big cousin tried to jump me. i just aimed for pot bellies and knocked the wind out of them lol. and guess what? they went bitching to the principal and said i used the N word. now this is Oakland, CA. i lived in a neighborhood that was mostly black. I was the only non-black person in like 3 of my classes. 98 percent of my friends were black. half of my cousins are mixed with black. i’m not a fucking racist and i sure as fuck don’t use that word. and it is just that A WORD. it only has meaning if these people give it power. i’ve been called every word in the fucking book. am i gonna beat the shit lout of someone? NO, because my parents raised me right. sticks and stones, blah blah blah. this shit pisses me off. i’m wondering if they can file murder charges now?? if they can they should, 16 is more than fucking old enough to understand the repercussions of beating someone so savagely.

I highly doubt a white guy, going thru cancer treatment, alone in a parking lot, is gonna start whippin’ out the N-word..

it’s the go to defense to get dumb people on their side.

It’s the equivalent of using the “gay guy made a pass at me” defense for beating gays to death.

It can’t be proven but it can inflame enough idiots on a jury…and that’s what a jury is…12 idiots too stupid to get out of jury duty.

I think Joshua got it right in his post, it has become a rallying cry to justify bad choices. I’ve also read a couple of stories recently about gays being targeted, and when they were killed the perpetrators tried to say, “He wanted me and I was humiliated”. It’s unfortunate, because also like Joshua said, it wouldn’t take all that much to get one homophobe on the jury who could think, “Yeah, I’d be pissed too”. Or one black/hispanic/jewish/asian/fat/crippled/ugly person who can relate to having been called a slur.

I don’t know… In a busy parking lot, during the day, to two punk teens? It’s not out of the realm of possibility that a man could think he could get away with it. We are talking about Kentucky, after all.

There’s really no way to know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did say it. Obviously not a justification for a coma-inducing-beatdown, though.

Believe me Cedric, my point isn’t that racism does not happen, that white folks, black folks, and all the pretty colors of the human rainbow aren’t guilty of it. Just that when you commit a violent crime, and LIE and say the person you assaulted used a racist term. This is playing on and ‘using’ a true thing that happens (descrimination, racism, sexism, and so on) and making it a joke. Why is this their excuse? Why is this what they think society will justify what they do? It is different in a situation where slurs were actually used, and then turned into a violent confrontation, then to make-up this after the fact as if it somehow covers ones tracks. “Oh well they said such and such…..”. That is why the examples I used were in cases of a person saying slurs or race was a motivation when witnesses claim this is false. In my two scenarios, people (witnesses) of the same race AS the attackers, stated it wasn’t true, the victims DID NOT use race. That was my point what is going on in their mind that they can simplify what they have done?

I frankly don’t give a fuck if that poor man called them anything.
No excuse for their actions.
It’s a shame he wasn’t packing and didn’t blow their sorry asses to bits.

I agree that more charges need to filed. This hood rat is already on the hook for other crimes and it can’t be a smart idea to let him out of his cage back into society.

I understood you, and I agree with you too.

It happens … but as Deety said it’s no excuse for what they did.

Not unless the guy had a death wish, Cedric. 

I don’t agree that they can’t say the injuries caused his death. An ass whooping and cancer present with different symptoms and even then it probably wouldn’t matter. If you beat on an old man and he dies they don’t look at it and say well he would have survived if he was older so let’s not charge this guy with murder..

That said…I suspect they won’t be able to upgrade the charges to murder. I think in some states you can only upgrade the charge to murder if the victim dies within a year (or is it a year and one day) of the initial assault. This was 18 months right?

The “made a pass at me” excuse is vomit inducing. 

What I’m saying isthese two asswipes are using this as some excuse to beat up a sick guy who they were gonna rob, not that white guys, alone in a parking could never say the N-word, that this guy and the circumstances show me he didn’t…I am fully aware of what some people say to each…all types of douchebags in every color, age, sex and creed, whether they say nigger, spic, honky, jew, beaner or whatever…Racism is all over and anyone who doesn’t see it is lying or retarded.  This guy who died could have very well hated black people…I don’t know, but I bet my ass he didn’t call those two criminals the N-word.

Not to mention, it is in a predominately black area. If this guy really did say it, he might as well have been flying a confederate flag out the back of his 1984 F-150. Also worth noting, if I remember correctly there were four suspects initially, including the mother of one of the suspects. They couldn’t prove (on the surveillence video) that the other two threw any of the punches so they weren’t charged. They could only see them in and out of the video yelling and pointing at the guy after he was down.

Good points. However, he is in a coma because of the beating. He died while still in a coma. Ergo the beating is the directly related to his death due to the fact his condition never changed prior to death after the beating. As far as family medical care decisions, they would not have been making those decisions if there was no beating. They took that control away from Mr. Berry. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty of Murder. BTW what happened to the 14 year old?

That’s an interesting point. I tried to google it to see how it worked in Kentucky, but couldn’t quite word it right. Anyway, after trying several different wordings, I was unable to find anywhere in Kentucky law where the victim has to die within a certain timeframe in order to upgrade  charges to murder. Not saying it doesn’t exist, just that I couldn’t find it anywhere.  I guess it kind of makes sense to have laws like that. Although in this case I feel it would be fairly easy to prove that the beating was directly related to the death, we couldn’t have every assault charge upgraded to murder after the victim dies years later…

Well I’m almost certain that if he didn’t slip into a coma because of this beating from the two pussies, he may have been able to beat cancer..and went on to live a full life. Should they be charged with murder, I don’t know, maybe.
What kills me is instead of growing up and realizing what they did to this man and his family they pull out the race card and blame the victim..
My father has cancer and has been doing chemo and radiation daily for almost 6 months..he was good shape, the cancer made him very weak, and if he had to defend himself against two young men..no way he would be able. And cancer causes different symptoms depending on the what kind, what stage, and each person. Any infection including bruising and post surgery infections can kill a cancer patient. That’s why any surgery and dental work is done Pre Treatment..

I am from Louisville, where this has happened, They were brothers and your right about the 14 year old, he did turn himself in after they issued a warrant for his arrest and his brother the 16 year old was arrested like the next week. All we ever heard was that the 14 year old had a court date like the right after that and then never heard another word about him except that he did plead guilty…. and then in the summer right before the trail was to begin, on that day, where he originally pleaded not guilty, and was going to be tried as an adult the 16 year old did a last-minute guilty plea to first-degree assault. and received 10 years in prison but probably get out couple years after his 18th birthday and the mother was charged because she witnessed the assault and did nothing to stop it. She simply got in
her car and drove away, then tried to intimidate witnesses into not
testifying.

There was no gang involvement just 2 brothers who I guess thought it was fun to beat the crap out of a cancer patient…and what’s even worse is when they finally named the guys, my daughter says “hey that’s Michac, we went to school together in middle school” after questioning her more, because I just have been beside myself with this terrible thing, the boy had been suspended from the middle school for punching the teacher in the face. And what he did before this was he was charged with a rape of a child under 12 and then on a
different day, there’s an incident where the assault charges take place, —he needs to be off the streets….
I totally agree he needs to be tried for murder, yes Mr. Berry had been undergoing chemotherapy
treatments and BECAUSE He was so severely injured he could
not complete his cancer treatments. They said from the get go that he would probably never recover, so regardless if the cancer took him or that her was in a vegetation state for 18 months, these 2 individuals were responsible, cause of their beating he wasn’t able to finish any cancer treatments that could of been helpful. This was a horrible horrible thing that happened and it makes me completely sick to think of how much Mr. Berry was going through and then these 2 and their mother did this…sicking.

I’m still waiting to hear the story about a man ending up dead because he told his wife to make him a “sammich”.  (I agree with all your points, I’m just digressing)

But, women aren’t as violent over sexist slurs, I implore you, remove his eyeball with a fork.  Let’s get this party started in hurr.

I got it…I just added all that cause if you don’t clarify you get a bunch of responses like “You know dwarfs can be racist too!” and “My dog has a problem with South Pacific Islanders, you’re wrong!”…I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, just more clear..:)

Jesus fuckin christ.

“This is the kind of guy who shadows, unfairly, his own demographic group”

I would have to take issue with this one statement John,the only “shadow” this guy is casting hangs over his own low – life body.To state in any way, shape, or form that he makes all Blacks look bad is an insult to my race.

“women aren’t as violent over sexist slurs”

My advice my friend – Never generalize like this (if you can help yourself),it increases the odds that you will be wrong.

Well you just shed a lot of light on how these two fuckers – excuse me – “brothers” were raised …

I agree, Shannie. I was thinking that because of the chemo treatments and the cancer he probably would not have the immune system to be able to fight off any effects that the beating had on him. A healthy person probably would have been able to heal from this.

You know I posted earlier, I told you all the details that us that live in Louisville were giving throughout this horrible event but I just want to add that even if it was the cancer that took him, cause he was unable to do anymore cancer treatments after the attack, he still was in a coma and on a ventilator for 18 months, so therefore this beating took the 18 months he had left away…also I remember after the attack he had to have surgery (but wasn’t strong enough for it for 2 months) to reattach his eye,or something  the reports were that The damage to his face and to his bones and to his facial muscles had
resulted in his eye actually receding into his skull, He had lost a substantial amount of eyesight because of that injury….his body was very weak from cancer treatments and the beating that’s when they said he only had a 1% chance of surviving.

also it was reported here that him and his fiancee`stopped at the dollar store, he had just finished a treatment and was feeling weak and tired so he decide to walk back to the car and wait, unfortunately he never made it because of these idiots….you could very well see on the store’s video Mr. Berry barely walking back to his car and this group of kids (which only 2 were charged) walked up to him and started swinging their fists, you can see them stomping his head with their boots….then you see them all pile in a car and left…..

He had also flat lined at one point during a surgery and when he came into the ER he had blood coming out of his eyes, his nose, his mouth and his head was
swollen. His ribs were broke and he had shoe impressions on his
stomach, his head had a boot impression on it

Now everyone keeps saying he’s 16 but that happened in June of 2010 and so to my calculation he was 17 in this past June (2011) so by at least June of 2012 he will be 18. I know my daughter said he was in her grade and she just recently turned 18 so I am thinking he is about to or just has turned 18, which means that this poor man has died and the idiot is probably about to get out. I do think even though it’s not been really stated but I think that since they always claimed that Mr. berry would likely never recover, they was able to get him to change his plea by saying that if he pleads guilty, they won’t charge him with murder if Mr. Berry died..Now that is certainly my opinion and I have nothing to back that up but they have always reported and stated that Mr. Berry was in this coma as a result of this beating…

Also someone commented on the area that these attacks happen was bad part of town, however I do agree, but this could of happened in the “rich” end just as well… the fact of the matter is that today’s youths have no respect and believe that they are all bad and unstoppable (I guess cause the mother evidently condoned the behavior) everyday I hear people, all races using the “n” word nonstop…makes me sick…I think that word is the most disrespectful and disgraceful word…no matter what race is using it…It is not allowed in my house…one day my daughter had a friend over, which was black and she was 16 maybe 17 but the windows were open and I could hear them talking and that word was being used just as normally as any word in the conversation..I was furious…I went straight out to the porch with my liquid dish soap and told her to apologize, her friend was like” no mam it’s ok, that’s how our generation talks to each other, we don’t look at color” I was appalled by his statement…. I told him in no uncertain terms that..that may be BUT it would NOT be used in my house, on my property or come out of my children’s mouth,period! It’s all about RESPECT for others (which it seems these teens nowadays don’t have for anyone!) so right then and there she apologized and as soon as she opened her mouth to speak the apology.. I squeezed as much soap in her mouth as I could, needless to say it made her puck–GOOD!! BET YOU WONT SAY IT AGAIN, AT LEAST WHERE I CAN HEAR YA!!!

 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE AND TEACH MY KIDS THAT PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, NO MATTER IF THEY ARE PURPLE OR GREEN THAT IT’S WHO THE PERSON IS ON THE INSIDE NOT THE OUT AND NEVER EVER JUDGE PEOPLE CUZ OF THEIR COLOR OR BELIEFS THAT GOD MADE US ALL AND WE ARE DIFFERENT BECAUSE THAT’S HOW HE WANTED IT BUT ON THE INSIDE HE MADE US ALL THE SAME, JUST SOME HAVE BETTER TEACHERS (parents) THAN OTHERS.

The kids will end up in the same revolving door that their parents are, in and out of jail because that’s all they know. It’s what they’ve been taught. They’ve been taught that it’s okay to assault people when you get mad or don’t get your way. I’m thinking there have been 3 small children killed by mom’s boyfriends around this area in the last year. Don’t even get me started on that, mothers that know their boyfriends are beating their kids but they think it’s more important to get laid and have a built in babysitter.

Not to mention, it’s very possible she didn’t teach the child the racial slurs. My teenage son listens to rap music (and yes, I allow him, so let the rock throwing begin). I justify it by saying I listened to NWA – without my parents knowing, of course – when I was a teenager and I didn’t grow up to be a murdering thug. Anyway, my son usually has his IPod on so nobody else can hear what he is playing. But if I had a small child that ended up listening to it, he’s probably pick up some nice, colorful language. My son also goes to a predominately black school, and he came home the other day stating that his school has these huge “ghetto flies” that look like pteradactyls. I told him he is absolutely not to repeat that to anyone else. He said his black friends are the ones that said that they have ghetto flies. It’s hard to explain to a kid why they can’t participate in certain banter with their friends of different races, even when it’s all in jest. I don’t want him getting a beat down in the parking lot because he said something about the ghetto.

So you put your penis and his penis were in the same space at different times… ew.

Whether it was cancer that killed him, or the beating led directly to his death, cheating someone with a fatal disease out of enjoying the last year and a half of his life deserves more than 10 years.

Wow! That sounds like a fun place where you live. What part of Iraq do you live in.

Cedric since you are a black man I want to ask you your opinion on a situation. I got thrown off a forum for using the word nigger. I said that if I was a black man I would rather be called a nigger instead of some one smiling and shaking my hand and then wait for me to turn my back. I want to know who my enemies are. There is very little defense against people you think are your friends. Do you find anything racist about that comment? If you do I can live with it and I will respect your opinion.

Four eyes, that’s funny but incorrect. They over looked your one eyed pocket snake.  You are a guy aren’t you?

You have no Idea. Just wait until you do really get old like all wrinkly and farty.

I always thought books were something you sold at garage sales.

Now I am confused in 76 years and I have never been call for jury duty. I don’t know if that makes me smart or they think I am to stupid to be a juror. What do you think? Go ahead have fun.

I case you don’t know it. The law says: That if I a 76 years old is attacked by one or more people using only their fists I am by law allowed to take their life in my defense because of my age. This proves the saying: don’t ever pick a fight with an old man. He can’t fight so all he can do is kill you.

Did you hurt yourself leaping to that conclusion? Just wondering what male trait came out in my post? I will try to be more gender appropriate next time. Yea right!

Thanks for the visual “Pullimg foot from mouth while leaping and pulling groin at the same time”,All genders that you for that!

Thanks for another visual Hi…Half way there I can’t wait!

N*****, S****, K****, S***N*****, S****H****, It’s too bad people will even know what I am saying. Let’s try to use our NICE words people as well as being considerate.

 It is the 21st Century. America has long been a melting pot of mutts! Shake you family tree and you will see that you are not, in fact, Adam or Eve. Therefore we are all mutts and that make us one! HUMAN!

It is not right “race on race” or even within races to use racial slurs in any context! It is hurtful and will only bite you in the a$$ eventually. You couldn’t possible know everyone within a race so you cannot possibly condemn and entire race without a negative outcome. Just ask Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Trent Lott…….just to name a few.

Good to know. Now I understand my 15 year old dachschund. She just thinks it is funny. Dead give away when she looks and then licks her butt.

Its not racism it is bigotry, hating without any prior knowledge of the individual or individuals.

No I am not a “beaner” (Mexican) I am Dominican. My avatar is my Green Cheek Conure parrot, Ernest Hemmingway aka Fatboy, BabyMan, Ernie. He’s stretching in his cage trying to get me to take him out so he can snuggle on my neck.

The mother was never charged with anything, charges were unfortunately dropped.  The 14 year old got a slap on the wrist and the other four got nothing at all!

My husband could be considered a punk, and I love it! He listens to punk
rock and is so punk…it is SEXY! he has tattoos completely covering
both arms and they are scattered on his lower legs as well. He is so awesome, he is the only father my daughter knows, and works 40+ hours a week and has a good heart. A better word you could use would be POS, loser, assholes, human debris… PUNKS ROCK!

I wonder how many times I got called a cracker or a honky when I was a kid, it doesn’t even faze me, I really couldn’t care less. I also got accused of saying the n word a million times to justify ass kickings. I walked home from school in alleys, and gutters behind houses to try to hide. I was despised for being white in Louisville, and I still don’t use that nasty word. I like black people as much as white people, and I LOVE their skin! I recently did a 30th birthday cake for a black girl and I thought she was going to tell me it was her 16th or 18th birthday, she looked so young.

This is why all states should have and exercise death penalties for people like this that’s sole purpose in life is to try and torment others smh…

It is a fact that Black males are more likely to commit a crime.  No
seeing that it is also easier for a Black male to get a scholarship or a
grant they should be less likely at this point.  Also, Blacks are
suffering due to illegal immigration.  Im in Palm Beach County FL and
this month we have had (2) murders both (2) black males (2) caught were
17 & 23 and robbed and killed a man in his home. The other (2)
robbed an immigrant waiter from Bosnia who loved America; robbed him and
shot him in the chest in front of his wife.  (3) Black males shot into a
car I was riding in when I was 15 (Now 36) and shot my brother in the
head.  He survived.  I watched it happen.  A black boy raped my sister
when she was a little teen.  I have to say that I am white and I do not
like the average Black person.  I am racist and I also do not like Jews
for the most part.  I do Like Arab as they are oppressed.  I just don’t
like black males in general but do have some black male friends that are
completely normal.  It is the fucking NIGGERS I hate.  Pull up your
fucking pants, take out your grill, get some type of language that is
professional and get a freaking life; you have the entitlements you so
desired and don’t use them you just thugg thugg thugg up the damn land. 
I tell you this; if there is a revolution in this country; not only
will I kill all ZIONISTS on site but any of you jiggy, cheeky, thuggy
ghetto ass criminals are standing around I will shoot you too!  I would
like to torture these (2) kids; maybe eviscerate them while “they mamma”
watch and let them see and feel the pain.  I hate this world and truly
hate most of you black, white or yellow; people are just shitty.

I understand and agree to a certain point about hating the ignorant (not only blacks) wanna bes that think being “ghetto” & being ignorant is cool. I do not appreciate the clothing choices, the lack of work ethic, the lazyness & the self entitlement that they carry that makes them think that it’s better to be on welfare &/or to deal drugs than to use your brains & work like a normal/constructive person to society. I am very sorry you do not like blacks & am sorry that you have been directly or indirectly affected by crimes by blacks.

With that said, I think your better bet is to move from America to like Switzerland or a place with a rather small percentage of blacks. That way you’ll hate whites that screw you over.

Updated: LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville teenager who pleaded guilty to assaulting a cancer patient is now facing a murder charge.
A grand jury indicted 18-year-old Michac Jones for the death of Carl Berry.
Jones was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the assault charge, but that was upgraded after Berry died.

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