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| Jury deliberating verdicts for 2 charged in Feb. riot at juvenile detention center |
| By progress-index.com - Vanessa Remmers |
| Published: 10/22/2013 |
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A jury will continue deliberations today in the trial of two 16-year-olds facing charges in a Crater Juvenile Detention Center riot in February that left two guards injured and led to an hours-long manhunt in Prince George County. The 12 jurors listened to hours of evidence and testimony from the Feb. 9 incident in Prince George Circuit Court on Monday before beginning deliberations. Raekwon Brown and Yusef Collier are each charged with aggravated malicious wounding, damaging a public building, escape, statutory burglary and assault of a prisoner on an employee. Brown faces five additional charges, including riot participation, assault of a prisoner on an employee and robbery, and two misdemeanors, petit larceny and injuring property. Video surveillance of the events that unfolded in the detention center left few of the facts to be disputed, the prosecution and defense said. It began around 8:30 p.m. in a narrow hallway that can house up to about 13 detainees. Some detainees played ping-pong in the nearby recreation room. Others sat in their locked rooms. David Hooker, one of the unarmed security guards, escorted a detainee back to his cell along the narrow hallway. A few steps away, Brown rocked back and forth on his heels outside his room, waiting for Hooker to return. As soon as Hooker turned around and walked toward Brown, the 16-year-old pushed him backward and began delivering blows to Hooker's upper body. Brown continued to punch Hooker until the guard was on the ground. Brown grabbed Hooker's keys and began unlocking the doors of several other detainees. Read More. |
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