Rell's Help Sought In Alleged Racist Beating

Nashawn Williams climbed the stairs of the state Capitol Tuesday with a plea for the governor.

[ct rez]

Maybe you should read the Hartford paper more often and you will see how terribly these youths are killing each other for no reason. CT sucks plain and simple.

[On the news]

On the news last nite, I heard that Nashawn had some part in the situation. And as this story reports, it's all about the "attack" and not the series of events leading up to the attack. Seems to be more to the story than is being told...

[Jerry]

Something is missing from this story.

[A few questions]

There's something fishy about this story.

1) The police have not been able to interview Nashawn Williams because his lawyer has been "unavailable." Why does he need a lawyer, since he is the victim here?

2) The lawyer has been unavailable for NINE months?

3) If there were no witnesses, and Nashawn cannot identify his attackers (as the story says), then what are the police supposed to do? Use a fortune teller to find the attackers?

4) What is Rell supposed to do about this?

[traveler]

I find this incident strange in the respect there are no witnesses, this was a School bus stop wasn't anyone else there? second was the police called right away? what provoked this was their words said? The papers say nothing of this no investigative reporting nothing.

[Resident]

Jerry wrote:

Something is missing from this story.

The truth!

[Grampy]

Couldn't they have just said "No" to drugs. Why beat him up?

[Berber]

Ha! Chris Cooper! Gov. Rell's Chief of Sweeping Under the Rug! Good Luck.

[Publius]

A few questions wrote:

There's something fishy about this story.
1) The police have not been able to interview Nashawn Williams because his lawyer has been "unavailable." Why does he need a lawyer, since he is the victim here?
2) The lawyer has been unavailable for NINE months?
3) If there were no witnesses, and Nashawn cannot identify his attackers (as the story says), then what are the police supposed to do? Use a fortune teller to find the attackers?
4) What is Rell supposed to do about this?

I agree. There are many unanswered questions here. Add to your list the question of what happened to Police Chief Hoffman’s November 2007 invite to “federal authorities to review and possibly assist in the case”? Nine months is certainly enough time for the feds to have made some sort of response.

[EG in Hartford]

They moved away and Nashawn can't attend school anymore? What kind of thinking/parenting is this? If you're gonna play victim you could at least have your story straight about being attacked. ie: I don't know who attacked me.... I can't help you find the perps. Something isn't right here, unless of course "mama" the drama queen is planning to cash in on all of this... sounds like that is more the case.

[Pat]

I smell a Tanya Brawley publicity hoax here. The police have yet to do a full interview with him because his lawyer is unavailable? He is supposed to be the victim but he won't speak without a lawyer present? IT'S BEEN NINE MONTHS!!! How can you criticize the cops then? Looks like this guy told his parents a bs story and now doesn't have the balls to tell the truth and is digging himself in deeper and deeper.

This type of gang assault is usually blacks teens on a white person (Jena Louisiana comes to mind). There are 770,000 violent crimes between blacks and whites every year in the USA and blacks committ 650,000 of them while being only one sixth the white population. Based upon those statistics the true color of racial hate in this country is black.

[Parent]

If Rell looks into this case then she needs to look into all the other cases that are unsolved. Maybe find out who beat the tow truck driver, mayber find out who beat Mr. Carbone. You don't see their families demanding Rell step in.
Send the kid back to school or homeschool him.

[HPD]

Heres an idea(seriously). Some lawyers will delay a case as long as possible to make the lawsuit settlement bigger. Don't get me wrong:

If the kid got beat, and the only reason is because he was black, you have my condolances(sp).

But why, if this family (and justified) would want the answers yesterday, wouldn't be around for interviews today? If it was my family, I would be camped at the doors of PD headquarters until I got my answers.

[Hartford Fan]

How come we can not post on the 15 year old boy killed in Hartford over the weekend? Did Eddie get to the Courant?

[Hartford Fan]

The killing of her 15-year-old son the day before still hadn't sunk in for Sandra Hyde by Monday afternoon.

"I still haven't seen him. Right now, to me, he isn't dead because I haven't seen him," Hyde said as she sat in her living room, clutching a photograph of her son in his basketball uniform.

Jakeem Tully became Hartford's 17th homicide victim of the year, the second of three to occur over the weekend, dying en route to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center where he was taken for treatment of gunshot wounds.

Jakeem, a home-schooled student who was excited about turning 16 next month and getting his driver's license, was found shot near 485 Albany Ave. shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, a few blocks from his Green Street home. He had dropped off his girlfriend and was returning home.

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Jakeem Jaquan Tully "He was leaving his girlfriend's house. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He shouldn't have been at the girl's house," Hyde said, adding that she spoke to Jakeem on his cellphone at about 1:30 a.m. when she realized he wasn't home.

"I asked him why he wasn't inside and he said,'I'm on my way, Mom,'" Hyde recalled.

The next call she got, at about 2:30 a.m., she said, was from a stranger who told Hyde he was driving Jakeem to St. Francis — the same hospital where he was born.

Jakeem loved to play football and basketball and planned to become a computer technician, his mother said. He was pronounced dead before she got to the hospital and she was unable to see her son before his body was sent to the chief state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

He had died of gunshot wounds to the chest and arm, a spokesman for the office said.

Hartford police are investigating Jakeem's shooting and the weekend deaths of two other men.

According to police, Johan Rosa, 28, of New Britain, was shot Saturday at about 4:45 a.m. at 195 Affleck St. and died at Hartford Hospital about 45 minutes later. Police believe they discovered the city's 18th homicide victim, a still unidentified male, at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday when they responded to a report of a deceased person on the third floor of 67 Mansfield St.

Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez said Monday that the three weekend homicides bring the total this year to the same number as last year at this time. "We've had peaks in a week before, but one homicide on any day concerns me," Perez said, noting that the city and department are aware of small, loosely organized street crews that have been operating in the area where Jakeem was found.

Hartford Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts said in a release Monday that the department "will not rest until we get the guns out of the hands of these violent and reckless individuals who resort to gun violence to resolve disputes."

For Pamela Joiner, whose son Jumar was killed in May 2007, it isn't enough.

"We need help. We're living in a war zone," Joiner said Monday after offering her condolences to Hyde. Police have obtained a warrant, but have not made an arrest in connection with her son's death, Joiner said.

The Rev. Henry Brown of Mothers United Against Violence said that pastors in the city should urge their congregations to take part in vigils to protest the killings of Hartford's residents and wants the governor to increase state police presence. Since June, 12 uniformed state troopers and two state police supervisors have augmented the city's police forces.

"Why not send a hundred?" said Brown, who will be holding a vigil today beginning at 6 p.m. at 485 Albany Ave. "They need to flood the city."

Hyde said she plans to attend the vigil. But after that she intends to bury her eldest son, who had just met his month-old half-brother last week for the first time, and leave Hartford for good.

"I don't want to live with the memories," she said.

Contact Steven Goode at [e-mail].

[Hartford Fan]

The killing of her 15-year-old son the day before still hadn't sunk in for Sandra Hyde by Monday afternoon.

"I still haven't seen him. Right now, to me, he isn't dead because I haven't seen him," Hyde said as she sat in her living room, clutching a photograph of her son in his basketball uniform.

Jakeem Tully became Hartford's 17th homicide victim of the year, the second of three to occur over the weekend, dying en route to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center where he was taken for treatment of gunshot wounds.

Jakeem, a home-schooled student who was excited about turning 16 next month and getting his driver's license, was found shot near 485 Albany Ave. shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, a few blocks from his Green Street home. He had dropped off his girlfriend and was returning home.

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Jakeem Jaquan Tully "He was leaving his girlfriend's house. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He shouldn't have been at the girl's house," Hyde said, adding that she spoke to Jakeem on his cellphone at about 1:30 a.m. when she realized he wasn't home.

"I asked him why he wasn't inside and he said,'I'm on my way, Mom,'" Hyde recalled.

The next call she got, at about 2:30 a.m., she said, was from a stranger who told Hyde he was driving Jakeem to St. Francis — the same hospital where he was born.

Jakeem loved to play football and basketball and planned to become a computer technician, his mother said. He was pronounced dead before she got to the hospital and she was unable to see her son before his body was sent to the chief state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

He had died of gunshot wounds to the chest and arm, a spokesman for the office said.

Hartford police are investigating Jakeem's shooting and the weekend deaths of two other men.

According to police, Johan Rosa, 28, of New Britain, was shot Saturday at about 4:45 a.m. at 195 Affleck St. and died at Hartford Hospital about 45 minutes later. Police believe they discovered the city's 18th homicide victim, a still unidentified male, at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday when they responded to a report of a deceased person on the third floor of 67 Mansfield St.

Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez said Monday that the three weekend homicides bring the total this year to the same number as last year at this time. "We've had peaks in a week before, but one homicide on any day concerns me," Perez said, noting that the city and department are aware of small, loosely organized street crews that have been operating in the area where Jakeem was found.

Hartford Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts said in a release Monday that the department "will not rest until we get the guns out of the hands of these violent and reckless individuals who resort to gun violence to resolve disputes."

For Pamela Joiner, whose son Jumar was killed in May 2007, it isn't enough.

"We need help. We're living in a war zone," Joiner said Monday after offering her condolences to Hyde. Police have obtained a warrant, but have not made an arrest in connection with her son's death, Joiner said.

The Rev. Henry Brown of Mothers United Against Violence said that pastors in the city should urge their congregations to take part in vigils to protest the killings of Hartford's residents and wants the governor to increase state police presence. Since June, 12 uniformed state troopers and two state police supervisors have augmented the city's police forces.

"Why not send a hundred?" said Brown, who will be holding a vigil today beginning at 6 p.m. at 485 Albany Ave. "They need to flood the city."

Hyde said she plans to attend the vigil. But after that she intends to bury her eldest son, who had just met his month-old half-brother last week for the first time, and leave Hartford for good.

"I don't want to live with the memories," she said.

Contact Steven Goode at [e-mail].

[Not about black]

What I smell here wrote:

...are the usual bunch of bigoted hacks who can't even for one moment believe that it is possible that a kid could get beaten up in America the Beautiful for the crime of being black.
Of course, when you go to work every day you're going to smile in the faces of your black co-workers (if you even have any) and tell them how that you're not a racist ... you'll tell the parents of your kid's black classmates (if he has any) about how some of your best friends are black ... but every morning you're here bright and early to spread your vicious bigoted filth.

My post had nothing to do with race. My post, and several others, were questioning why only one side of the story was reported. The news last nite even reported that the victim had an exchange with someone prior to the attack. There seems to be a lot missing from the story. It takes two to Tango. Now your post,,,,now there's a racist post if I've ever seen one!!! Next we'll see you at govenor's office, eh?

[Grampy]

HPD wrote:

Heres an idea(seriously). Some lawyers will delay a case as long as possible to make the lawsuit settlement bigger. Don't get me wrong:
If the kid got beat, and the only reason is because he was black, you have my condolances(sp).
But why, if this family (and justified) would want the answers yesterday, wouldn't be around for interviews today? If it was my family, I would be camped at the doors of PD headquarters until I got my answers.

Somebody must of asked; "Nashawn, would you be willing to take a polygraph test?"

[chessie]

What was a 15 year old doing out on the streets at 2 a.m.???????? This is an example of the breakdown of the family as we know it today - parents letting their kids doing whatever they want.

[Heres the list]

Let's see here. Who can we sue??? The school system, the board of education, the principal, the home room teacher, the bus company, the bus driver, the local police, the state police, the state capitol police, his lawyer, their lawyer, WTIC, the reporter, the camera man, Kodak, Sony, DCF, DUI, DWI, the people that beat him, their parents, their parents parents. Did I leave anyone out??? If so, just add to this post! There you go Nashawnie, just trying to help!!!