"Police: Oregon teens torture classmate, cut swastika into his head"
Source: CNN
By: Ed Payne
On February ten in Portland, Oregon, three teens have been arrested for luring a classmate into a shed, using a crowbar to hit him in the head, shooting him with a BB gun and then carving the swastika into his forehead. Authorities have charged these teens with kidnapping, robbery, assault, and menacing. The teens were Jenna Montgomery, fifteen, Blue Christian Kalmbach, fifteen, and Jess Taylor, seventeen, and have been charged as adults and are being placed under a $3 million bail each. A fourteen-year-old is also accused of participating but is not named because they are being tried as juvenile. The victim was sixteen-year-old Dustyn Murrain. Montgomery participated in the assault by luring Murrain to the shed and she was considered the "bait". The teens were apparently after Murrain's skateboard and money. They all attend David Douglas High School. Mark Collins, a senior at that school, spoke out about the incident and said, "I just think the whole idea is just messed up". Murrain's family is hoping that the carving on his forehead does not scar. He is wearing a silicon patch to try to heal the wound. It would be terrible if that carving scars. He is already traumatized and seeing that scar on his forehead every day for the rest of his life would be devastating. He will be reminded of that memory and that will never leave his mind. I am appalled that people my age have done this. What is processing in one's mind to think of doing something like this? All because they wanted Murrain's skateboard and money? That is not an excuse. Most murders and assaults happen because the perpetrator wants money. Money controls people and makes people do the unthinkable.
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