Four teens admitted to throwing rocks from a highway overpass in Michigan.
They will be sentenced as adults after their ‘Overpassing game’ killed a young father driving on his way home.
18-year-old Mark Sekelsky, 17-year-old Mikadyn Payne, 16-year-old Trevor Gray, and 16-year-old Alexzander Miller were sentenced to adult prison by Judge Joseph J. Farah who rejected the defense’ request to sentence them as juveniles.
32-year-old Kenneth White died minutes from his home after the teens threw rocks and other objects from the Michigan expressway overpass.
Another teen, 18-year-old Kyle Anger, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He is said to be the one who threw the large rock that smashed White’s windshield.
The young father was in the passenger seat of a van when a huge rock smashed the windshield and hit him. He was pronounced dead when he arrived at a hospital. The cause of death was ruled a homicide, with blunt force trauma to chest and head.
There were abrasions and lacerations to White’s face and head, and also skull fracture and brain injury. He suffered from broken upper ribs and a broken clavicle.
White’s fiancé, Aimee Cagle, wrote on a GoFundMe: “This was my heart that was destroyed… but i just wanted to say thank you to all who have donated!
“There is still kindness and love out there i just hate that its because of the travesty. He was my best friend and the love of my life. Thank you to all.”
Attorney Frank Manley representing Sekelsky said to ABC12: “You have a person whose life was taken. Now we have four young boys whose lives may be taken.
“So to sit here and say this is somehow a win for one side or the other, it’s not. It’s very sad all across the board.”
White’s mother, Theresa Simpson, said to WXYZ: “I’m so glad that Kenneth is getting the justice he deserves. My prayers were answered. I’m ecstatic over the decision that was made today… It’s what we all wanted for him.”
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