What happened to Eric is horrible, and he deserves justice.Įric is a kind, soft-spoken boy who has endured more than any 14 year old should, and now his life is on hold because of bad decisions made not just by school bullies, but by the administration of Highland Spring High School as well. Will you join me by signing my petition?Īs a person who endured a lifetime of bullying by a family member myself, I knew that I had to take a stand. I reached out to Eric’s family after hearing his story, and started a petition asking Highland Spring High School and Henrico County to drop the charges against Eric. What happened next was shocking: while still recovering from his injuries, Highland Spring brought charges against Eric for the assault.Įric admits to lunging at the bullies as they threatened and yelled anti-gay slurs at him, but even though the other boys did not suffer any major injuries and Eric was viciously beaten into unconsciousness, he is the one being punished. Instead, Eric was not just bullied but brutally beaten by a group of students at school while other classmates watched, leaving him with a broken wrist, a 9-day hospital stay, and a traumatic brain injury which will affect him for the rest of his life. This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can email to send a tip.When 14 year-old Eric Martin started high school this fall, his parents were assured that the zero-tolerance anti-bullying policy in place at Highland Spring High School would spare Eric from the relentless bullying he had faced since first grade. "I want it to be in memory of him.”Īnyone with information is asked to call Detective Ensor at 80, Crime Stoppers at 80 or submit tips via smartphone at. “In memory of him, I don’t want to play here no more," Nyasia said. Jaida and Nyasia said that after what happened early Saturday, they see the place where they used to play differently. "We looked out the window and saw a boy lying right there.” “I didn’t hear no yelling or anything - just pow pow," Jaida remembered. Their grandmother has a doorbell camera, which showed police responding to the incident and captured a woman screaming, “that’s my son.”
Jaida Taylor, 9, and Nyasia Barrett, 10, recounted what they witnessed as they watched the scene unfold in their grandmother's front yard. Two cousins at a sleepover at their grandmother's house heard the shooting that killed the 16-year-old. Girls heard shooting that killed Henrico teen Jaida points to the shot where a neighbor was killed in her grandmother's neighborhood. Nelson said the school district and county will do everything they can to wrap their arms around the young man's family and those who knew him at Highland Springs High.
And then a sense of unity and togetherness, I believe will come out of it." “Shock, I think, is the first thing, and then mourning. And so when a family hurts, the community hurts,” Nelson said. "There's generations of connectivity in Highland Springs. Henrico Supervisor Tyrone Nelson, who represents Varina District, said the shooting has saddened the community. "Please keep the Highand Springs community in your thoughts following the untimely loss of a Springer student," reads a post on the Henrico County Public Schools Facebook page. The 16-year-old was a student at Highland Springs High School and played on the Springer's basketball team, which won the state championship less than a month ago, WTVR CBS 6 has learned. The teenager killed in his eastern Henrico County neighborhood early Saturday was a student at Highland Springs High School, officials with the district confirmed.
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