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Less than four months after the brutal murder of Chicago student Derrion Albert was caught on tape, the slaying of another student from the same high school has been captured on video and circulated on the Internet.

Surveillance video, obtained by the Chicago Tribune, shows 16-year-old Fred Couch being shot to death outside a convenience store on the city’s South Side last Wednesday night.

Police say Couch was standing outside the store when someone came up from behind him and shot him in the back twice.

Couch’s mother, Tojuna Smith, told CBS affiliate WBBM witnesses told her “mean mugging” – giving someone a bad look – might have had led to his murder. She said she heard the shooter accused her son of “looking at him the wrong way.” Police have not confirmed that part of the story.

Police, who are examining the video, say no arrests had been made as of Friday evening.

Couch, like Albert, attended Christian Fenger Academy High School.

In September, the beating death of Derrion Albert, an honor student at Fenger, was captured by a cell phone video camera. That video attracted national attention.

Couch’s father was shot to death in 1993.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/babyraga/ babyraga

    WE HAVE TO SAVE OURSELVES!!!!…

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    My goodness….they say he was shot possibly for ‘mean muggin’ someone? Are you kidding me…You cant even look a person in the face now without fear of retaliation? Sad times in this world…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/soveu34/ soveu34

    Just fu cken cowards running around with guns in their hands and using any fuc ken thing to set them off. I hope one day for each coward shooting innocent people that those guns fu cken backfire in your fu cken faces you pos.

    RIP CHILD

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BroAshanti/ BroAshanti

    Was the shooter a white man?

    Just curious.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nmryda/ nmryda

    Such a damn shame… When are we gonna learn? And, NO, BroAshanti, it’s not a white man, COME ON!!! How many white people do you know live in the Wild 100s?! It’s another case of senseless murder by a fool with a gun….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    The insanity just getting worst by the day, but my faith will not let me give up on the younger generation. No one can turn the tides on the ignorance that dominates our communities, but us. The generation before us stopped acting like men,and teaching what men are suppose to be. Today, we see the results of such conviction to the street and to the adage that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is the devil as described by our ancestors in the MAAT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/3iiiE/ 3iiiE

    …WTF…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrsholland22/ mrsholland22

    This is just horrific..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Lets be real here, this has been going on in OUR community for the past 60-100 years. Its only now we are seeing it right in our living rooms and computer screens. Our people need a proper knowledge of self. Brother Ashanti, no it wasn’t a white man, but it is his system that has facilitated this violent behavior that is so prevalent in our community. That is no excuse because I agree with BabyRaga “We have to save ourselves” but it is THE cause, no ifs, ands or buts. Perhaps seeing it this way will serve as the catalyst for action!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Deyanju1/ Deyanju1

    Unbeliveable…..why black people….why???? mean mugging…r u serious.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hersey1/ hersey1

    everybody wants to be a f*cking gangster like that s**t fly… growing old with your damn great grand kids is sum fly s**t.. what did this boy gain from shooting this child? no money fame not s**t but a damn a life sentence when the catch this fool… please teach & discipline ya kids and dont let the radio or the streets do it, you see where that gets us. smh*

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilsqueak_69/ lilsqueak_69

    This is the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen. I hope they find out who killed this CHILD and give his family the justice they deserve. It was a look…not a curse out. Grown up and get some balls

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/popa1983/ popa1983

    I wonder how he is going to deal with being mean mugged in prison while he getting raped by big bubba.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alishakel/ alishakel

    Thats so f**ked up man…that is downright ugly…what has gotten into everyone these days? http://join.crazyfruits.net

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2znm/ 2znm

    What is mean mugging???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Mean muggin @ 2znm is when you just LOOK at someone and they dont like your expression…im often accused of ‘mean muggin’ because I dont go around smiling all day like some kind of moron.

    BroAshanti, now you KNOW white folks dont usually indulge in that ‘Whatup nygga what you lookin at!!” type bidness…you know it was black on black…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Since this murder happened, the murderer has been caught! A young black male done in by an older black male! An up & coming Menance to Society done in by an accomplished Menance to Society! I see it as GREAT SELF EXTERMINATON! Executed very neat, clear & not innocent bystander got hurt! Way to go GANGSTERS! I wish the Rat’s and Roaches learn to use that approach of EXPERMINATION S**t We would not have to call EXTERMINATORS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Fly098/ Fly098

    It’s the last days man….Stuff like this doesn’t surprise me. When I hear of men driving down the highway and throwing their babies out the window, people killing one another, women taking their kid to shoot ranges and in turn shooting their kid, one world gov’t, economy, and religion in the making and all the stuff that is going on in the world today, it let’s me know that this is the beginning of the end and it makes me take my walk with Jesus that much more serious. That’s for me. I see it as it is. I don’t know about other people but that is what I see.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chat82/ chat82

    This is a mess…what is society going to do? So what to to do now, go around with our eyes closed? I am truly speechless….God be with his family!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/get_wit_eman/ get_wit_eman

    what a Fukkin coward…wow..he shot that young man in the back with authority!

    Like..take that!!..sick azz, fukked up, coward azz indivuduals..i apologize for the bad language but this is just cowardly at best..NO REASON!! period..

    Even in the Ol western days..shooting someone in the back was a no-no..a few did it but if they got caught..they azz HUNG!!

    not to mention the whole black on black crime as is…what a waste of two black lives….wow

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/314_pipe_game/ 314_pipe_game

    This is terrible. But I need to know why is the media demonizing Chicago like this, besides the probable fact that Obama is from there………..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ihateinteracial/ ihateinteracial

    welp when yo stupid f.u.c.k.e.r.s decide to stop prasing your krackka jesus or you arab muhamamod allah and start decdeding to do what the chineese to to there own who breaks the laws in the commnity put out by the elders.then things like this will only hppen to people like the man who pulled the trigger.

    but oh thats right most of these guys is go getters while u sorry fat f.u.c.k.s sit on blackplanet or sit in ur cars or sit in the kfc resteraunt or sit in chruch

    all you people do is sit which is sooooooooo so pathetic

    oh my oh no the african americans are gonna get up

    but dont worry they r just gonna march as usual

    sad but true

    hey shango24 whats sup brotha?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Faithful_and_Favored/ Faithful_and_Favored

    I could’ve sworn that your “sitting” and “sadly” typing as well. Spewing anger and pointing fingers is going to solve what now? Yeah that’s what I thought, get an english book and take some kind of lessons on verbs, and adjectives etc. Sheesh!
    This boy was senselessly shot down this concerns mankind forget about a color he every race has it’s ignorance I just feel like mankind needs a healing, quick, fast and in a hurry!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/monias1/ monias1

    It breaks my heart to see that lil boy get murdered like that. Man when are we going to wake up. Makes me not even want to rap no more. I watch that tape over and over again and it’s just messing with my head now. I pray for that boys family. What a coward! Shoot a person in the back is just a coward. I guess your a killa now you mutha f**kin looser. I hope when they find yo ass they lock you up with strawberry syrup all over yo b***h ass and let them GD’s and Vice Lords f**k you up the ass untill you can’t cry no more then throw you over a tier you b***h ass coward. I hope you burn in hell and get raped by satin him self for killing that boy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ambitious_balla/ ambitious_balla

    This is OUR fault! We let our communities get like this by “ignoring” everything that happens unless it involves us directly.

    I remember growing up as a kid in the early 80′s and everybody knew everybody. If I did some silly s**t down the street, I got my ass snatched up right then and there by whatever parent was around, took an L there, and THEN they called my moms and I took another L when I got home. The whole neighborhood helped raised the kids. Nowadays, most people don’t even know the muthaphucka living right next door to them. Nobody says s**t about the crime even if they see it because they don’t wanna be labled a “snitch.” If Its not our house being broken into, we won’t say s**t when see somebody in all black crawling through somebody’s window. We don’t check these punk ass kids when they mouth off. So this is OUR fault. We let our communities go and now we’re scared of the environment that we created.

    Everybody gets on here and talks about how sad it is when s**t like this happens. But I ask you, what are YOU doing to change it? Preaching on here doesn’t help whats going on “off” line. I’m a Marine with a VERY limited schedule right now due to training for this deployment to Afghanistan, yet I STILL try to squeeze in as much time as I can by volunteering at various spots, talking to these young cats I see presenting a foul image. I check these teens when they call themselves “nutting up” on the elders. I take the time to listen to them and try to use myself as an example of “making it out the hood and getting my s**t together.”

    We ALL have to play our part. You shouldn’t have to wait until the issue is at your doorstep to get involved.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Ambitious_Balla! You’ve said a Mouth Full! When the little punk’s get caught doing a crime all the way to murder, we got to see one of the worst of the worst ENABLER’s I’ve even seen in my 52 1/2 years on this earth which is 1 of the 3 Mommy’s (Grand/Birth/Baby)),’ these women bark, curse, fuss & scream so hard & loud until they take on the look’s of a WILDE BEAST! MY BABY, My Baby, my baby, DID NOT DO WHATEVER and most of the punk’s even before the age of 20 have a rap sheet longer than some older, old school criminals. I say, along with the problem(s) with the kid’s, real men who hold’s on to their man hood! Should start snatching holes on 1 or the 3 Mommy’s A**’s who is making pure, straight up watered down punk’s out of their, Grand-Son’s, Son’s all the way to Baby’s Daddy’s in some cases I’ve seen HUSBAND’S! I’ve seen 1 of the 3 Mommy’s straight up checking the child’s grand-fathers, fathers like she’s wearing the Mother***en Paints! I have a grand-mother, a mother, multiple aunts & sisters who KNOW BETTER than to get in my face and the one’s who has melted the males down within their household’s/family’s knows to MISS ME FLAT OUT! THEIR BOY’S OF ALL CATEGORIES? They Know to Miss me as well! It’s sick & I say males who start off being Controlled and/or who is weak & know no other way(s) of living outside of being a pure from the HEART COWARD a/k/a a THUG/WANNABEE! Just sad to see, watch & witness the outcome(s)!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    P.S. For the one’s who get’s tired of Jail/Prison and/or being pure trifling, who tries to change, I do help them, find out if their records can be exspunged, etc., Yeah, I lead them to the water BUT they got to Drink It! IF any of the 3 Mommy’s start to rear their horrible head’s & the dude loses his INDIVIDUAL focus, I step off & further watch life whip that A** somemore. When the 3 mommy’s get tired of, “getting evicted, turned down for most services, excepting collect call’s from jail/prison for decades on end plus having to take care of 3 generation’s of males, their off-spring, etc., they THE MOMMY’S will either get too old, too tired or in between the two, then? They’ll flip then try to ACT like THEY were the one’s victimize when they fed, festered & helped this sick menality to spread! I look at the one’s within my family and laugh my head off & feel NO PITY FOR ANY OF THE PARTY’S INVOLVED! They don’t change THEY DIE OFF!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IrockAshortCut/ IrockAshortCut

    i like how everyone DIDN”T attempt to help him.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ManiacDisciple63/ ManiacDisciple63

    Thats f**k up to say but thats how it is in the Chi Born in raise R.i.P lil homey

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KEKEMZ_BOSS/ KEKEMZ_BOSS

    THIS IS SOOOOO F**K UPP!!

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