Pubdate: Tue, 03 Oct 2006
Source: Free Lance-Star, The (VA)
Copyright: 2006 The Free Lance-Star
Contact:  http://fredericksburg.com/flshome
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1065
Author: Keith Epps

TEENAGERS ROBBED AT HOOPS COURT

Three Teens Looking To Buy Weed Get A Beatdown Instead.

Three Stafford County teenagers looking to buy  marijuana got robbed 
and brutally beaten instead,  police said.

Stafford sheriff's spokesman Bill Kennedy said deputies  went to a 
home on Birch Lane, not far from the  Sheriff's Office, after a 
resident reported that a  shirtless boy was outside covered in blood. 
The  teenager had a large laceration over one of his eyes.

The boy said he and two of his friends, all high school  students, 
had gone to the basketball courts in Stafford  Oaks planning to buy marijuana.

Police later found the other two victims and got  further information 
about the incident, Kennedy said.

They had been there about 30 seconds when seven or  eight young men 
rushed around the corner and attacked  them.

Kennedy said the three victims were knocked down and  kicked and 
punched for two to three minutes. During the  beating, one of the 
suspects pulled out a gun and  demanded money.

The victims complied, and were eventually allowed to  get up and run away.

The first victim said told police that the gash over  his eye was the 
result of being pistol-whipped.

The suspects were described as black males wearing  black clothing 
and blue bandannas over their faces.

The victims said they didn't recognize any of their  attackers, Kennedy said.

Among the charges the attackers will be facing if  caught are 
robbery, malicious wounding, maiming by mob  and using a firearm in 
the commission of a felony.

A green Cadillac Deville seen earlier in the evening is  believed to 
have been associated with the suspects,  Kennedy said.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to  call the 
Sheriff's Office at 658-4400 or Crime Solvers  at 659-2020.
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