3 Teens Plead Not Guilty in Attacks on Homeless
From Times Wire Reports
Three teenagers accused in a series of beatings that killed a homeless man and seriously injured two others the same night pleaded not guilty in Fort Lauderdale to charges of murder and attempted murder.
In one of the attacks, captured on a surveillance tape, two young men with baseball bats repeatedly hit the victim as he lay on a sidewalk and tried to block the blows with his hands.
In the other attacks, authorities said, the assailants used a paintball gun, bats and a golf club.
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