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5th Teen Taken Taken Into Custody for Attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas Student

Jordan Thompson, Sylvester Hicks, Chinua Leefatt, Caleb Hensley. and Jahmeer Beauziel. {BSO}

By Kevin Deutsch

A fifth teenager allegedly involved in a brutal attack on a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student was taken into custody by Coral Springs Police on Monday morning, authorities said.

Jahmeer Beauziel, a 17-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, turned himself in around 8:30 a.m. at the Coral Springs Police Department, Sgt. Ernesto Bruna told Coral Springs Talk. Beauziel will be charged with felony battery for his alleged role in the Dec. 12 beating. Four teens were previously arrested Thursday and charged in the attack.

Police previously spoke with Beauziel’s family and arranged for the teen to turn himself in, authorities said.

Video footage recorded during the attack showed a student being slammed to the ground around after school in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior student parking lot at North Community Park in Coral Springs, according to police. The victim was hospitalized with multiple injuries. According to online posts by numerous MSD parents, the teen suffered a fracture to his skull.

On Thursday, police obtained arrest affidavits for the five alleged attackers. Four of the accused attackers attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, and a fifth attends Coral Glades High School in Coral Springs. More arrests in the case are possible, police said.

Along with Beauziel, the students named by police as participants in the attack are:

– Sylvester Hicks Jr., a 16-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

– Caleb Hensley, a 17-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

– Jordan Thompson, a 16-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

– Chinua Leefatt, a 15-year-old student at Coral Glades High School.

The four teens previously arrested were taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center in Fort Lauderdale, the central intake facility for all arrested juveniles in Broward County. A judge on Friday ordered them released into their parents’ custody and placed them under home detention. Their next scheduled court dates are in January.

Beauziel was expected to be booked into the Juvenile Assessment Center on Monday.

Video of the Dec. 12 attack showed an unidentified attacker slamming the victim onto the pavement. Other footage posted online showed kids striking the victim before he was picked up and slammed to the ground. The victim struck the ground head-first and appeared to lose consciousness. Several students tended to the motionless boy as other kids scurried around the scene, the footage showed.

According to court records, witnesses told police an unknown suspect had walked up to the victim and punched him in the face. The attacker then “incited several other males who then joined in the attack [of the victim] who was picked up into the air and slammed back to the ground causing his head to smack the concrete pavement.”

The five accused attackers were later identified by investigators who worked closely with school administrators, records show.

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Kevin Deutsch

Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning journalist and author of two nonfiction books. He covers general assignment news and Jewish community issues for Talk Media. He has also worked as a staff writer at The Miami Times, the Rio Grande SUN, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, The Riverdale Press, and Bronx Justice News.