Four teenagers are facing murder charges today after an 18-year-old party-goer was beaten to death in an unprovoked attack. Bobby Tillman died in an attack in which he was beaten and stamped on at a house in Atlanta, Georgia.In an act of shocking brutality, one of his alleged attackers was said to have told friends he would hit the next person who walked past, before others joined in. Accused: Emanuel Boykins, left, and Quantez Mallory, both 18 are alleged to have beaten Bobby Tillman to death in Atlanta, Georgia
Horace Coleman, 19; Emanuel Boykins, 18; Quantez Mallory, 18; and Tracen Franklin, 19; face a single murder count each.
Lt. Bruce Ferguson, of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said one of the attackers allegedly told friends he would hit the next person he saw.
Murder charge: Horace Coleman
They were arrested after emergency services were called to the party in the early hours of Sunday morning to reports of a fight. Sheriff Phil Miller said the assault on Tillman was unprovoked. The victim was a ‘little guy, 18 years old, 5ft 6in, weighed 125 pounds,’ Miller said.
‘And they beat him up and stomped him and killed him,’ he added. Police who were called to the party by the host’s mother held 57 witnesses for questioning. There were so many people at the party that a Sheriff’s Office bus was used to take them away from the scene.
Ed Stephens, who lives near where the party took place, watched the brutal attack from his bedroom window.
