Chicago Teens Charged With Murder in Fight

Prosecutors have charged three teenagers with first-degree murder in the beating death of a Chicago student who was walking home from school.

Family members believe the victim, 16-year-old Derrion Albert, was fatally beaten Thursday for refusing to join a gang. But some witnesses say he was a bystander who was swept into a violent fight.

CBS News station WBBM in Chicago identified the suspects as Silvanus Shannon, 19; Eric Carson, 16; and Eugene Riley, 18, all of Chicago.

A local minister told WBBM-TV he felt "outrage" after the incident.

"They should be outraged that a young man with great potential has lost his life to foolishness," the Rev. Renaldo Kyles said.

After Chicago police increased its presence at the school, some children said they're scared about getting there, not what happens inside.

"You have to worry about what you think is gonna happen, if something's gonna happen to you while you're on your way home," Fenger student Antonette Akins told WBBM-TV. "That's why I didn't walk to school today. I had my mom drop me off 'cause I don't know what's gonna happen while I'm on my way to school."

A vigil for Albert is planned outside Fenger High School on the city's South Side on Monday afternoon.

Police have been using a video purportedly taken by a person at the scene of the beating to help identify people. The video shows several people beating a stomping a person believed to be Albert.

Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin says the teens were charged Monday as adults.