Crime & Safety
4 Teens Charged With Murder After Throwing Objects Off Overpass
When they threw a sandbag over the side, it broke a car's windshield and slammed into 22-year-old Marquise Byrd, prosecutors said.
TOLEDO, OH — A group of teenage boys were hanging out on a highway overpass on Tuesday, Dec. 19, throwing objects on to the cars speeding by below, according to police. When they threw a sandbag over the side, it crashed through the windshield of a car and slammed into 22-year-old Marquise Byrd, prosecutors said.
After Byrd died a few days later at a hospital, prosecutors in Toledo decided to press murder charges against the boys. All four, aged 13 to 15, are currently being held in an Ohio jail.
They appeared in juvenile court Wednesday in Toledo where they entered denial pleas to the murder charges.
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Byrd, of Warren, Michigan, was in the front passenger seat of a car traveling south on Interstate 75 in Toledo when the sandbag crashed into his head, according to police. The Lucas County Coroner's Office says Byrd died of blunt-force trauma injuries to the head and neck.
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