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Title: Teens on trial in death of starbucks manager

Summary: 5 teens of philidelphia are being sentenced for the death of 36 year old Sean Conroy, for allegedly beating him to death after exiting philidelphias subway. on march 26, 2008 17 year old kinta stanton, 18 year old ameer best,17 year old nashir fisher, 16 year old arthur alston, and 17 year old rasheem bell had all skipped school to go to the mall. they were on the subway platform waiting for the arrival of the subway when one of the boys dared one of the group members to go hit someone. Alston took the bait and snuck up on the man and hit him form the back, the assult continued all the boys jumping in getting there hits in. when the police officer spotted the boys he ran over to scene. When he got there conroy was on his knees gasping for air. emergency vehicles were called to the scence but an hour after reaching the hospital they were notified that conroy did not make it. They do not believe that the injuries from the beating are totally at fault; he was also asthmatic, which made it harder for him to recover from the breath taking beating.

Defendants side of the story: 17 year old kinta stanton claimed that he never touched conroy and is sticking to his story. he is being sentenced to 12 1/2 to 25 years in state prison. Aggervated assult and other charges are being added to stantons sentence for allegedly shooting one of his friends in april while on house arrest.