Demario Bailey dies saving twin brother from armed robbers
theGRIO REPORT - A Chicago boy died defending his twin brother. Demario and Demarcio Bailey were ambushed on their way to a Eaglewood High School basketball game. Four young men shook up the boys' pockets and demanded their jackets...
A Chicago boy died defending his twin brother.
Demario and Demacio Bailey were ambushed on their way to a Eaglewood High School basketball game. Four young men shook up the boys’ pockets and demanded their jackets.
“Get off my brother,” Demario allegedly said.
The boys struggled with their attackers, and one robber pulled a gun. Demario was hit in the chest by a single gunshot. He later died. He was just days from his sixteenth birthday.
After the shot, both Demacio and the attackers fled. Demacio looked back to see his brother lying motionless and face-down under a viaduct.
The boys’ mother collapsed to the ground on the scene as Demario’s body was taken away. “I want my baby back,” she moaned.
A 17-year-old boy has been charged in Demario’s killing, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Police have taken in several suspects charged with robbery, murder, and attempted robbery with a firearm.
The shooting sparked an angry response from the boys’ school, Johnson College Prep. “I know I speak for every educator who continuously deals with this type of tragedy in saying we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. The apologies are not enough, and after all the fanfare is over, someone still has to put their baby in the ground,” Principal Garland Thomas-McDavid wrote.
There is a Demario Bailey Memorial Fund on Youcaring.com.
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