Mother Reacts To Son’s Involvement In Brooklyn Girl’s Assault, “I Wanted To Kill Him With My Bare Hands”

Written By: @dawnnnyy_

14-year-old, Alex, was one of the teens who turned themselves in for the brutal sidewalk beating of a 15-year-old girl. His mother, Donna Howell, was “very disappointed” in her son, and “wanted to kill him with [her] bare hands” when she was the raw footage of the attack.

“I did not teach him to act like an animal in the street,” Howell said of her son.

The victim had been walking up Utica Avenue in Crown Heights when she was ambushed by five teenage boys between the ages of 15 and 17-years-old, reports confirmed.

“Video footage captured the group punching and kicking the girl int he head as she lay helpless on the pavement, finishing off the attack by snatching her Air Jordan 1 retro sneakers off her feet,” the NY Post wrote.

Howell discovered the video on social media, apparently. “I watched the video twice, it kept popping up on my feed. I realized that’s my kid. I just went numb.” The 42-year-old was getting her eyelashes done at the time. The technician described Howell’s reaction as looking like she “just saw a ghost.”

Howell forced her 8th-grade son to turn himself in at the 77th Precinct Station House. He was hesitant at first, the mother admitted. “No you’re going to, you’re going to turn yourself in,” she told her son. Shortly after, she left the house, and when she returned, she found her son gone. “He had just walked and turned himself in [to police],” she said.

Four other teenage boys also turned themselves in Friday night. All are being charged with robbery and gang assault and are awaiting arraignment at Kings County Criminal Court.

Investigators believe the group attack had to do with a fight the girl was involved in earlier in the school day.

The video of the assault gained national attention. City Councilman Robert Cornegy (D-Brooklyn) commented, “I have never seen in my lifetime this kind of incident where young men perpetrate this kind of violence on an innocent woman. I remember growing up under mob mentality in Brooklyn. There were still rules and the rules said that women were untouchable.”

A neighbor of the victim, Jacob Black, 13, told the NY Daily News, “She doesn’t get in trouble, she doesn’t deserve that. She’s a basketball player, that’s all she does. She goes to school and comes home. She’s quiet. Those were animals. I can’t see how those young boys did that to her.”

“My heart breaks for the victim’s family. I’m just very, very sorry. I feel very, very bad for her,” Howell told The Post. She added that her son would be “on punishment” for years to come for his involvement in the incident.

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