Teens Accused of Killing Homeless Man for "fun"

[Crapshoot]

Teens accused of killing homeless man 'for fun'

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Posted: 9:13 AM EDT (1313 GMT)


HOLLY HILL, Florida (AP) -- Two Florida teenagers found a homeless man in the woods and beat and kicked him to death "to have something to do," according to Volusia County sheriff's investigators.

Christopher Scamahorn, 14, and Jeffery Spurgeon, 18, confessed to beating the 53-year-old victim with their fists and sticks and kicking him, sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said Sunday.

The pair were charged with murder Sunday. Spurgeon was being held without bail in Daytona Beach. Scamahorn taken to a juvenile jail.

The teens said they attacked the man "for fun" and "to have something to do," Haught said. They went back to the woods three times after the initial attack to beat the man again, he said.

The victim was found Saturday, and the condition of the body indicated he had been dead for several days. An autopsy Sunday determined that the man died from blunt force trauma to the head and body, Haught said.

The victim's name has not been released.

"We're trying to find next of kin," Haught said Monday. "He apparently doesn't have any next of kin nearby."

Investigators said there may be more arrests.

Seriously- wtf ? Who thinks of killing someone as a fun thing to do ?

[JeeberD]

Reminds me of the Stephen King novella, "Apt Pupil."

[AlexB]

Seriously- wtf ? Who thinks of killing someone as a fun thing to do ?

You're making the mistake that these are people anywhere near the moral and intellectual level of normal folks...

[BrianD]

They were probably fans of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

[CraigSca]

I wouldn't even say their intellectual level is below normal folks. Humans have a remarkable ability to dehumanize others.

[Ksyrup]

From another article:


"Neighbors said the two suspects were part of a menacing group of boys who caused trouble around the neighborhood. One woman said she sent her 15-year-old son to live with a relative for the summer to get him away from Scamahorn's crowd.

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Chad Halfhill, 16, who called himself a close friend of Scamahorn, said a group of eight to 12 teens picked on a man they came across in the woods near this community 55 miles northeast of Orlando.

Scamahorn "told me the day they did it. He said they beat him real bad. He said, 'Hey, you want to go see him?' And I was like, 'No, I'm cool,'" Halfhill told the Orlando Sentinel. "We'd just hang out. We'd never say, 'Hey, let's go kill someone.'"

Shea Miller, 17, who lives across the street from Scamahorn, said they were friends until his neighbor started getting in trouble.

"That group, they got into a couple fights," Miller said. "I never thought they would kill somebody."

Scamahorn attended Riverview Learning Center, an alternative school for students with disciplinary problems.

Spurgeon said his son recently dropped out of Mainland High School and worked with him on a roofing job Thursday and Friday. He unsuccessfully tried to talk his son into joining the military."

[Noop]

YALL CRAZY!!!

[Raiders Army]

With names like Scamahorn and Spurgeon, I'm not surprised they have a little pent up aggression.

[Shkspr]

I think you'd pretty much have to kill a homeless man for fun. There certainly doesn't seem to be much money in it as a career...

[Qwikshot]

I think the one where the kid killed his family and friends on the day of his graduation is more shocking.

[sachmo71]

Every town has an Eyeball.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

With names like Scamahorn and Spurgeon, I'm not surprised they have a little pent up aggression.

I see a name generator in the future...

[JeeberD]

Every town has an Eyeball.

Outstanding! Two references to two different novellas in the same collection in one thread...

[sabotai]

I blame Hollywood.

[WSUCougar]

I wouldn't even say their intellectual level is below normal folks. Humans have a remarkable ability to dehumanize others.
Indeed. And that's a very sad thing.

[ThunderingHERD]

http://www.cyber-cinema.com/british/ClockworkOrangeF(BRT).jpg

[A-Husker-4-Life]

This shit is crazy.... WTF is wrong with kids these days....