ORLANDO, Fla. — A mother says her son was attacked by some of the same suspects who were seen jumping a beating a boy in a video posted to Instagram.
After seeing a story on Eyewitness News about 14-year-old Miguel Morales, Jr., being tossed to the ground and stomped on at the Dr. James R. Smith Recreational Complex Saturday afternoon, a mother said her son experienced the same thing back in November.
The video was posted to Instagram with the caption reading: “Today was fun asf we was just jumping random ppl only got the video to one.”
The mother, who asked not to be identified, said her son “was walking home from the Smith Center by himself. They followed him to fight him.”
She said they filed a report with Orlando police after the attack.
Video shows her son and another boy fighting while other stand around, then another jumps in and stomps him.
“He agreed because they were going to beat the heck out of him anyway, so he just wanted to face his bullies, to get it over with,” the mother said.
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No arrests have been made in her son’s case, but the mother said she believes at least two of the children who attacked Morales, the boy from the video posted Saturday, also attacked her son.
“It’s like almost every week I hear a different story about them jumping someone else,” the boy’s mother said. “It’s pretty bad.”
Morales said he knew two of the people who jumped him from school, but he never had any beef with them, and it seemed to be a random attack.
“I couldn’t say nothing, I couldn’t think,” Morales said. “They was just hitting me.”
The Morales family filed a report with Orlando police, and said they hope the attackers will be caught and stopped from going after anyone else.
“They were laughing, giggling like it was funny to them," said Morales’ father, Miguel Morales Sr. “Then on top of that, too, (there) was the camera guy that was holding the phone that was videotaping that.”
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