and christina lumm pleads no contest to attempted felony assault. they are sentenced to the time they ve already served in jail, about 60 days plus probation. travis payea gets the toughest sentence, three years probation. but just two months before it was to end, in april 2006, payea is found dead at a friend s house. he was 24. his family never reveals the cause of his death. coming up [ bleep ]! do you have a street address for me? oh, crap. dude, i m so scared. these kids, i don t know why they re doing this to me. we saw people being stomped, people being hit with hammers. [ bleep ]! people being kicked in the head. it was horrific. .so you say men are superior drivers? yeah? then how d i get this. [ voice of dennis ] .safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check.
watching that fight. what gets the d.a. s attention that summer is a horrifying story about tanner hanson and the night he encounters the 311 boys. this is where it all started. july 18th, 2003. tanner hanson has just wrapped up his junior year in high school and is enjoying all the graduation parties with his friends. on a warm saturday night, tanner drives to this park where he meets his best friend craig. some girls show up. and one of them suggests going to a party. another friend winces at the idea. but the group decides to go anyway. that s a decision tanner now wishes he had never made. tanner s friend craig. a lot of kids were coming in. some of my friends that i knew, and i was just like, oh, we don t have to worry about that. there are no problems. the group seems to be having a good time. but then without warning, says craig, the mood at the party changes. people they don t know are staring at them. one in particular.
false imprisonment and battery. she is sentenced to 15 days in jail and three years of probation. we may have our differences but no one deserves that kind of treatment. prosecutors offer to drop false imprisonment charges against april cooper and brittany mays if they agree to plead guilty on misdemeanor battery charges. all accept and are sentenced to a year of probation. prosecutors say mercedes nichols partially arranged for the fight to take place and pleads guilty to battery and tampering with a witness and given three years of probation and 100 hours of community service. as for tori lindsay she is recovering from the injury. coming up if you so much as sneeze, i ll split your [ bleep ] throat. a video shows a teenage girl tied up, bound and apparently in fear for her life. if you scream and fight, we re going to kill you now.
let me leave! i ll go home. no! but they refuse to release her and continue the vicious assault. don t ever [ bleep ]. why don t you like her? why don t you like her? don t act adding to the brutality of the beating is the fact that someone s videotaping the entire scene. the attackers are not only beating the victim but playing to the camera. the girl holding the video camera says to the others, as if she were directing a motion picture, to make it good. make this 17 seconds good. come on. after a half hour of this torture, tori is finally released and driven to meet another friend who describes her as having blood in her mouth, a big knot over her left eye. tori s rushed to the hospital. she suffers a concussion, bruising and damage to her left eye and ear. the police are called, and eight teens are arrested. six girls who were inside the home and two guys who stood outside as lookouts. the sheriff s department releases a snippet of the videotape, and it becomes break
in florida. eight florida teens, the youngest just 14. they posted a savage beating on youtube. all eight are accused of kidnapping and battery in the beating attack on a 16-year-old. matt lauer from nbc s today show interviews christina garcia, the mother of mercedes nichols about the beating. what about the actual beating on tape? do you think this has been overblown? i wouldn t say that. mercedes, my daughter warned this girl before she came into the house. the two girls that you have been running your mouth about over myspace and threatening are in the house. please do not go in the house. relatives of the other suspects also speak out. she is a very good person, and she s my baby girl, period. if y all saw the video, it was a one-on-one fight. there was no gang beating. it s our sheriff trying to show this. that s all it is. sheriff grady judd doesn t buy it. he says that videotape speaks for itself. i was outraged. i mean, when you looked at the violence,