2 Are Charged With Murder in IPod Theft
NY Times
July 4th, 2005
By JENNIFER MEDINA and MATTHEW SWEENEY
Published: July 4, 2005

Two Brooklyn teenagers were arrested early yesterday on charges that they robbed and killed a 15-year-old boy in the Farragut neighborhood when they stole his friend's iPod, the police said.

The victim, Christopher Rose, was walking with three other boys late Saturday afternoon when a large group of teenagers approached them and demanded that they turn over the iPod that one of the boys was carrying, according to the police and witnesses. When the boys refused, one of the suspects began hitting them, said Kenneth, 15, who was with Christopher at the time of the attack. Then someone stabbed Christopher twice in the chest.

Christopher was stabbed to death near Avenue D, a block and a half from his home.

Several teenagers had approached Christopher and his three friends just after they began walking on Avenue D. Richard was showing Kenneth his iPod when one of the older boys approached them and demanded it, Kenneth said. Richard handed the iPod to Jonathan before turning back toward the Rose home. Several teenagers in another group, some riding bikes, began approaching them.

"There were like 15 or 20 of them, and there were more coming," Kenneth said yesterday. He spoke in front of the Rose family home with his back facing the news cameras, hiding his swollen and bruised right eye. "We were trying to get away."

Kenneth said that when he turned around to check on his friends, Christopher and Richard were fighting more than a dozen boys. The suspects then took the iPod, Kenneth's cellphone and Christopher's sneakers before running off.