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Spot­ted @ Chicago Sun Times 

Via Fox Chicago

REST IN PEACE Der­rion Albert 

BELOW IS VIDEO FROM THE FIGHT ! 

The fam­ily of Der­rion Albert, the 16-year-old fatally beaten Thurs­day in an after-school mob melee in Rose­land, strug­gled Fri­day to under­stand how their honor roll student’s life could have ended in such violence.

“Der­rion has never been in a fight in his life,” said Joe Walker, Derrion’s grand­fa­ther who raised him. “He never raised his voice. Not in 16 years have I had one day of trouble.”

Walker broke down sev­eral times speak­ing about his grand­son, proudly show­ing off the awards he received at Chris­t­ian Fenger Acad­emy High School for excel­lent atten­dance and being on the honor roll. Der­rion had just started his junior year.

“We were crazy about him,” Walker said. “He was the type of grand­son every­body wished for.”

Monique Bond, Chicago Pub­lic Schools spokes­woman, said Der­rion “basi­cally was walk­ing along unpro­voked, and unbe­knownst to him he was about to walk into this con­flict. I don’t think he even saw them coming.”

T-Awannda Piper, a youth worker at the Agape Com­mu­nity Cen­ter in the 300 block of West 111th Street, wit­nessed the brawl. She said the fight started with about a dozen high school stu­dents, then quickly esca­lated to about 100, about 3 p.m. Thursday.

“They had sticks; they were fight­ing with their hands; they were tak­ing off their shirts and throw­ing them on the ground,” she said. “I saw [Der­rion] get hit twice with a stick.”

She said Der­rion fell to his knees, then was hit again in the head. He was uncon­scious but alive when she dragged him into the build­ing with the help of a man dri­ving through a nearby alley who aban­doned his truck to assist.

Der­rion was pro­nounced dead at 6:17 p.m. at Advo­cate Christ Med­ical Cen­ter in Oak Lawn, the Cook County med­ical examiner’s office said.

He died of cere­bral injuries and blunt head trauma from assault, the med­ical examiner’s office said.

While the fam­ily did not believe Der­rion was involved with a gang, sev­eral peo­ple have been vic­tims of gang vio­lence in the far South Side neigh­bor­hood over the summer.

On Thurs­day morn­ing, shots were fired out­side Fenger. No one was hit, but a teenager was arrested and the inci­dent was believed to be gang-related, said Offi­cer Jo Ann Tay­lor, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

Tay­lor said police are inves­ti­gat­ing any role gangs might have played in Thursday’s fatal melee.

Bond said the school dis­trict was told there is pos­si­bly a con­flict between two “fac­tions,” but “it has noth­ing to do with the school.” She also said the fight and the Thurs­day morn­ing shoot­ing out­side Fenger are not believed to be related.

Those in the com­mu­nity said they are tired and scared of the violence.

“It’s nuts. It’s esca­lat­ing,” said Mil­ton Massie, direc­tor of the Agape Com­mu­nity Cen­ter, who saw sur­veil­lance video of the fight. “This was mob action.”

Toya Tru­itt, who has two sons at Fenger, said ten­sions between kids liv­ing in the Alt­geld Gar­dens hous­ing project and those liv­ing near the school have been on the rise.

“A lot of kids don’t want to come back” to school, she said. “This boy [Der­rion] was inno­cent. He was a kid going home.”

Walker said he and his late wife had raised Der­rion since he was a baby. When the boy’s mother moved to Down­state Mount Ver­non, he chose not to go with her, want­ing to stay in Chicago.

When his grand­mother was diag­nosed with can­cer sev­eral years ago, Der­rion doted on her, Walker said.

“He was 14 years old, and he would come home and take care of her,” he said.

After Derrion’s grand­mother died last Sep­tem­ber, he lived on and off with Eunice Cross, the grand­mother of his 10-year-old half-sister, but when she needed more space for other fam­ily mem­bers, Der­rion moved back in with Walker.

“He was a quiet young man around the house,” Cross said. “He didn’t talk much.”

His grand­fa­ther said he spent most evenings doing school­work on his com­puter. On the walls of the com­puter room, cheer­ful fam­ily pho­tos sur­rounded a hand­writ­ten list of “Affir­ma­tions for Liv­ing” that Der­rion wrote, Walker said.

“I would sur­round myself with peo­ple who bring out the best in me,” the list reads. “I would rid myself of the neg­a­tiv­ity in my life, includ­ing friends and sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers. I would do some­thing nice for some­one, just because.”

Walker said Fenger’s prin­ci­pal and other fac­ulty were at the hos­pi­tal last night, a tes­ta­ment, he believes, to his grandson’s hard work in school.

“I’m very proud of him,” he said. “I’m just blessed for the time I had with him.”

Mayor Daley, on his way to Copen­hagen to push for the 2016 Olympics to Chicago, issued a state­ment ask­ing Chicagoans to “destroy the code of silence that pro­tects criminals.”

“It only pro­motes the kind of vio­lence that has taken this young man from us,” the state­ment read. “We’re all in this together. We must save our children.”

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