Young participants in close combat, who was sentenced to 2 years of probation for the death of a 14-year-old

A year after a close combat among teenagers in a park in the plaster, 14-year-old Jackson Davis led to the murder of 14-year-old, one of the young people involved was sentenced to 24 months monitored probation assistant.

The 16-year-old attacker was convicted by judge Rachel Olguin-Fresquez on Wednesday after he had guilty because of the first degree attack, which led to serious assault by using a fatal weapon, a crime of class 3, to serious assault. The accusations found that the attacker grazed another teenager with a baseball bat several times during the melee, which led to the victim to be taken to the hospital.

Davis, at that time a newcomer to the Eagle Valley High School, was also stabbed during the close combat and died of his injuries. Nefi Ezequiel Armijo Hernandez, who was 16 years old at the time, is exposed to the first degree in this case before murder and other charges. Armijo Hernandez, who is to be brought to trial as an adult, will receive a hearing for reversal in July to determine whether the case goes back to the Juvenile Court.

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The negotiation on Wednesday was the first time that the court in this case heard publicly from the families of the victims, and was also the first time that the complete details of the argument, including the beginning, could be heard in public.

How it all started

According to the family of the victims and the attacker's lawyer, the struggle for the failure of one of his colleagues began to return a ski mask. The way it started was so pointless that Olguin-Frequez said that it contradicts itself.

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“It is difficult to understand one of us as an adult, but certainly everyone who raised children or had the chance to be with children-in particular teenagers and young teenagers, know that rational thinking and good decision-making for young people are sometimes difficult,” she said.

In addition to Davis, the other victim was hit several times with a baseball bat in this case and hospitalized. The attacker at the conviction on Wednesday was accused of having met this person with the bat and was not the person who stabbed Davis that the court was informed. The court heard of the mother of this victim together with Davis' mother and grandmother, who gave all statements that point out that they would do justice in the case.

The victim's mother said that her other son, who saw the incident, in addition to her son, who was injured, was also a victim because he saw his brother being beaten with a baseball bat.

“My other son has PTBS,” she said, spoke to the attacker. “My children don't want to go into the park without a parent. They cannot be children, and it is not fair because they are afraid, they are afraid because they had to experience something about a stupid ski mask that they had no business at all, and everything they had to do was to return it.”

The victim's mother added that her son still feels the pain of being hit with the baseball bat, but she believes that he will recover at some point.

“He will be okay and we will come by as soon as we get justice,” she said.

“These are wounds that cannot be healed”

Christy Davis, the mother of Jackson Davis, said her son was nothing more than an innocent viewer in the case.

“Jackson was not involved in the conflict that led to his death,” she said. “He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time by people who had no consideration of life.”

Christy Davis said she was haunted after the incident of nightmares.

“Young people of this day to see my son in the hospital for the last time and to stick to his life,” she said. “When his heart was bleeding, they couldn't keep him stable. This picture will follow me forever. These are wounds that cannot be healed.”

Jackson Davis' grandmother, Robin Davis, said she was disappointed that it was other people who were not charged.

“It feels like a miscarriage for us and many others in our community,” she said. “Our family not only mourn the loss of Jackson, but also provides the accountability of the parties involved and the system that should protect us.”

Frustrations are ventilated through the youth system

District Prosecutor Heidi McCollum was the public prosecutor in the case and was frustrated about the youth justice system in Colorado. It provides more concern about the interests of the youth criminals than the protection of the victims.

“After the court's appearance, the young person is asked:” How are you? Is everything going fine? How is the school? “, Said McCollum.” Nobody has taken the trouble to ask the victims, and this is the only time when convicting that the victims actually speak to this dish. “

Olguin-Frequez said that McCollum is rightly so that the system has difficulty dealing with victims of crime well.

“The focus is almost always on the person who committed the crime in the youth system,” said Olguin-Fresquez. “It focuses very much on the best interests of the young person and how we can create a set situation that leads them to a law -loving and successful life.”

The decision to condemn the attacker on Wednesday to 24 months was a result of one of McCollum and the lawyer of the teenager, Ed O'Connor, agreed objection agreement.

“In this matter, the court is appropriate to follow the agreement,” said Olguin-Fresquez.

The attacker's 24-month trial period comprised 45 days in prison, but after he had already served 67 days in custody, no further time was waiting. The attacker was put in the GPS monitoring after the service of the 67 days, but Olguin-Frequez had the surveillance device removed after the sentence on Wednesday and said that he deserved this privilege, but can be revoked at any time.

McCollum said that the attacker had already violated the conditions of his pre -contract contract by not participating in numerous meetings with a therapist and violating a protective arrangement, but O'Connor claimed that the missed sessions were the result of a misunderstanding about where the sessions that he presented, and the violation of the protection order, which was provided without his client, and that of the client, and that of the client Coated clients he presented and who were raised by the protégés.

The attacker lives with his father in Eagle County and has to live with his father throughout his probation punishment, and he cannot leave Eagle County without the consent of his probation assistant, said Olguin-Fresquez.

The attacker came to the United States with his father from Hondura at the age of 10, O'Connor told the court.

“You have been here for six years, live in the community and do not cause any problems,” said O'Connor. “They left his mother and two younger siblings, and their main goal was to bring the whole family back together.”

O'Connor said that he met his client and father several times last year and now knows her well.

“I can tell you that he is now a frightened 16-year-old,” said O'Connor. “He doesn't know what his future is doing. He feels the shame about everything that happened. He takes responsibility for what happened on this day and it really traumatized him.”

The attacker made no explanation in court on Wednesday.

In addition to the 24-month probation penalty, Olguin-Fresquez ordered the attacker to deal with a therapist.

“I don't know the specific way of therapy, but obviously a trauma would be very appropriate,” said Olguin-Fresquez. “Trauma is based on the incident here, but also underlying trauma.”