Teenager convicted for killing over Apple iPod

“A teenager who was part of a gang that fatally stabbed a 15-year-old boy over an iPod was convicted Tuesday of murder,” The Associated Press reports.

“Brooklyn prosecutor Charles Hynes said a jury deliberated for three hours before convicting Darren Samuel, 17, of robbery and second-degree murder in the July attack. He faces as many as 25 years in prison,” AP reports.

“The victim, Christopher Rose, was stabbed in the chest when he and friends resisted a group that accosted them in the street and demanded they give up an iPod one of them was carrying,” AP reports.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “EMAX” for the heads up.]

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