The city of Chicago is still reeling after a Black mother and her young son was brutally attacked by a group of middle school students. The vicious attack was filmed and, after making its rounds online, the backlash against the kids and their parents was swift. Now, one of the kids who admitted her involvement just spoke out.
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To catch you up, we previously reported how 33-year-old Corshawnda Hatter and her 9-year-old son were treated at Trinity Hospital in serious condition after a group of Orville Bright Elementary School students on the city’s Far South Side jumped them Monday (Nov. 17).
During a interview with media the next day at the school, Hatter, who has sickle cell anemia, recalled how the group purposefully waited on “the way we walk home, just to jump all of us.” Per WGN-TV, she added how “they fought my son and hit my son first. …Then they dragged me in the grass.”
The viral clips are brutal, and they motivated the community to rally behind Hatter and her family and demand accountability for the incident. On Tuesday (Nov. 18), one of the female students allegedly involved in the attack spoke out.
“I want y’all to meet Kamira. She is one of the children that was apart of the fight,” an adult woman said in the Facebook video, holding the camera up to the student. It’s unknown if she is the girl’s mother. She instructed viewers to keep their comments “respectful” because “this is a child.”
The girl appeared to try to hide a smirk before beginning, “Hey. My name is Kamira Grant and I was wrong for everything I did.” She began to wipe her eyes, but no tears can be seen falling. She continued: “I was being a follower — following everybody who don’t even got nothing that I got.” The girl apologized, but added how she “gotta go through so much. I wish I wouldn’t never did what I did.” She said she’s a “different person tonight.”
Over on TikTok, a Black woman was laying on a bed in front of a young boy standing idly in the back telling the camera, “You know the whole city of Chicago looking for you, right? You and your little friends — cause you was wrong yesterday,” looking back at him. “You was wrong!,” she added before the clip abruptly ended. “You know I’m not helping you right?”
Folks in her comments, from Las Vegas, Detroit, and cities across America clarified they were looking for her as well. But it’s unclear if the video was made in jest, or if she was really a parent of one of the involved kids.
In another update, Chicago drill rapper Lil Zay Osama extended a helping hand to Hatter and her two children, according to Fox 32. The Windy City native offered to fly the family to Los Angeles for dinner and Christmas shopping, per the outlet.
“It’s just something that shouldn’t be going on; kids should be able to go to school and be comfortable walking home from school and at school learning,” Lil Zay Osama told Fox 32. “Kids of that age should not be doing things like that, especially to an adult and to their peers they go to school with. That’s crazy, that shouldn’t be happening in our community, we gotta do better.”
Chicago Public Schools said they are “horrified by the attack,” and Mayor Brandon Johnson called the kids’ behavior “unacceptable” as he was “deeply disturbed to see the video.”
As of this writing, no arrests have been made.
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