White teen charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to drown Black juvenile

A white youngster has been indicted via a grand jury on attempted murder and attack with a perilous weapon for allegedly trying to drown a Black juvenile in a pond in Chatham, Massachusetts, in accordance to the Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois.

The indicted teen, 14, who the district legal professional mentioned is “known to the court,” met the sufferer and a 3rd juvenile, a white male, at a neighborhood pond on July 19.

After arriving, the indicted teen allegedly picked up a stone and threatened the Black juvenile, calling him a racial slur — the n-word, Galibois mentioned.

The Black sufferer placed on a existence jacket and informed the opposite juveniles he may just no longer swim, in accordance to the district legal professional.

When the juveniles entered the water, the indicted juvenile allegedly started to pull at the sufferer’s existence jacket and submerge him underwater 4 to 5 occasions, inflicting the sufferer respiring misery, the district legal professional mentioned.

The different white juvenile allegedly laughed on the sufferer all through the plain attempted drowning and referred to the sufferer as “George Floyd,” referring to the Black man who was killed by a white police officer in May 2020, according to the district attorney.

Officials say the indicted juvenile swam underneath the victim and attempted to grab his feet to pull the victim under water.

The victim started yelling for help and a bystander entered the water to intervene and bring the victim to shore.

None of the juveniles involved were named by the district attorney’s office.

“After a Dangerousness Hearing within the Barnstable Juvenile Court on August 31, 2023, the juvenile defendant used to be discovered bad via Judge Silvia Gomes,” according to the DA’s press release.

The indicted teen is being held with out bail and is due again in court docket on Sept. 13 for a pretrial listening to on the Barnstable Juvenile Court.