Student beaten at bus stop
Posted: 02.25.2011 at 2:57 PM
Cortez Turner
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A student waiting at a bus stop is jumped by several other students and beaten severely.

Eighteen year old Cortez Turner had come from an after-school activity when four students approached him and started hitting him.

"They could have killed him," says Tracey Coolin, the victim's mother.

She's grateful her son is still alive after getting jumped by four classmates at a bus stop in front of Flint Northwestern High School Thursday night.

"We're going to prosecute to the fullest," says Coolin.

She says one of the students was arrested at the school Friday and that the three others did not show up to school.

She says it's pretty cold for a pack of teens to target her son who's around 5' 8" and 115 lbs.

"(These are) kids with no remorse, kids with no self-respect, kids with no self-conscience."

Cortez Turner's family says his jaw is broken in three places. They say that may not have happened from a punch, but rather he could have been knocked to the ground and kicked in the face.

Coolin says her son did not know his attackers and that he gave them no reason to beat him.

"My son goes to school, church, home, and after-school activities. Those are the only things he goes to."

Turner spent the night in intensive care at Hurley Medical Center.

He's awaiting surgery to repair his jaw, which will likely need to be wired shut for four months.

The victim says his attackers identified themselves by gang names.

He says, to add insult to injury, when the bus came to pick him up some people on the bus laughed at him.

He says the driver kicked them off the bus.