A caller timeline lays bare the fearfulness of the fatal beating of 16-year-old Preston Lord's by a pack of teens successful Arizona.
Lord was assaulted astatine a Halloween enactment past October and recovered connected a adjacent sidewalk successful Queen Creek, a suburb of Phoenix.
Talan Renner, 17, is accused of being the bully who delivered the devastating 'hammer punches' that ended the young athlete's life.
Witnesses told constabulary Renner punched Lord astatine slightest 4 times arsenic the unfortunate was knocked to the ground, earlier kicking him astatine slightest once.
Renner past stepped distant and allowed the different alleged teen delinquents, who telephone themselves the 'Gilbert Goons,' to each instrumentality a crook assaulting Lord.
The different six execution suspects past took turns stomping, punching and adjacent humping Lord arsenic helium laid connected the ground, according to a constabulary study and arsenic reported by The Arizona Republic.
Preston Lord, 16, was near to dice connected a Queen Creek roadworthy extracurricular Phoenix aft being attacked astatine the enactment connected October 28 and suffering captious wounds
Talan Renner, 17, is accused of being the bully who delivered the devastating 'hammer punches' that ended Lord's life
A memorial for Preston Lord is seen by the sidewalk wherever helium was recovered unconscious
Repeat offenders William 'Owen' Hines, 18, and Dominic Turner, 20, was seen kicking Lord. Jacob Meisner, 17, charged successful different Goon assaults, was besides seen hitting Lord aggregate times.
Treston Billey, 18, different Goon antecedently accused successful assorted assaults, was the past to attack, jumping connected Lord's caput arsenic helium yelled: 'F*** you, pu***!'
Then, Taylor Sherman, 19, opened Snapchat connected his telephone to grounds rescuers dragging Lord's assemblage retired of the street.
He said: 'Slumped the f*** out. Haha.'
Talyn Vigil past ran to his car and told his girlfriend: 'I conscionable knocked retired a kid acold ... we person to go, we person to leave.'
Lord died from his encephalon injuries astatine the infirmary 2 days later, but constabulary did not marque immoderate arrests for months, until March, sparking vexation successful a assemblage that has been rocked by teen unit implicit the past years.
All 7 suspects person pled not blameworthy to Lord's murder, and each but Vigil, who posted bail past week, stay successful jailhouse awaiting trial.
Lord's execution suspects Billey and Meisner are seen above. Both were antecedently accused successful assaults connected to the alleged Gilber Goons
Suspect Talyn Vigil ran to his car and told his girlfriend: 'I conscionable knocked retired a kid acold ... we person to go, we person to leave'
By 9.40pm, the Goons had caught up to Lord and his friends, and Dominic Turner snatched a $10 golden concatenation from the lad who had recorded the erstwhile altercation
Sherman told constabulary that arsenic they near the scene, Renner said: 'I mightiness person hospitalized that kid... I deed him beauteous hard.'
Lord's friends told constabulary that portion they did not cognize immoderate of the attackers, Billey zeroed successful connected 1 of Lord's friends aft helium began signaling different altercation involving the execution suspects.
The lad told Billey helium deleted the video, but the Goons continued targeting Lord and his friends, who tried retreating distant from the enactment but were followed by the teen delinquents.
As they chased them, the Goons were reportedly singing a disturbing code that went: ' Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye.'
By 9.40pm, the Goons had caught up to Lord and his friends, and Turner snatched a $10 golden concatenation from the lad who had recorded the erstwhile altercation.
The Goons past began playing blistery murphy with the golden concatenation arsenic they mocked the boys and incited him to 'do something' astir the stolen chain.
Taylor Sherman, 19, opened Snapchat connected his telephone to grounds rescuers dragging Lord's assemblage retired of the street
Repeat offender William 'Owen' Hines, 18, was besides seen assaulting Lord
Despite the taunts, the lad tried walking distant but soon felt a deed to the close broadside of his head. The punch was thrown by Meisner, witnesses told police, and it sparked the chaos that followed.
Lord and his friends began moving distant but the Goons gave pursuit again, pushing a 14-year-old to the crushed earlier punching him successful the caput and leaving him with a breached wrist.
The Goons past caught up to Lord, and knocked him to the crushed with a punch earlier taking turns assaulting him. It's unclear who threw the archetypal punch, with immoderate witnesses pointing to Renner and others to Vigil.
The boys' person a akin name, and Renner's begetter Travis Renner has been accused of utilizing the similarity successful names to effort to pin the execution connected Vigil, who is the lone fishy released connected bail.
The beating took seconds, and the Goons headed to their cars aft 'twerking' and 'air humping' Lord's body.
According to a erstwhile worker of Travis Renner, an attempted coverup began astir instantly aft Lord's murder.
Ashley Reynolds, who utilized to enactment astatine Relentless Media Agency, has claimed that her erstwhile bosses Travis Renner and Adam Kifer openly discussed their plans to fell grounds and displacement blasted connected Talyn Vigil.
Travis Renner and his concern spouse reportedly plotted to bring Talan to a compartment until the injuries helium sustained portion handing retired the beating healed. Detectives recorded that Renner’s household had 'financial means to assistance successful fleeing to Mexico' and helium was taken retired of the Phoenix country aft the onslaught connected Preston.
The businessmen said Preston's beating was portion of immoderate benignant of initiation, arsenic Talan wanted to enactment successful beatings similar the ones carried retired by the Gilbert Goons, Reynolds said.
Court documents accidental nary of the suspects knew Preston earlier they attacked him implicit a golden chain.
Arizona businessman Travis Renner has been accused of helping his teen lad screen up the execution of a 16-year-old lad who was beaten to decease aft a location party
Reynolds said she was instructed to backdate physics calendar entries to marque it look arsenic if Talan was retired of municipality the time of the Halloween party. She added her erstwhile bosses adjacent came up for a mode for Renner to divest himself from the institution to minimize the anticipation of lawsuits.
Renner's concern spouse Kifer past allegedly requested Reynolds motion a nondisclosure agreement. He told Arizona Republic helium has 'no transportation to the allegations involving the Renner family.'
Reynolds spoke with the section outlet earlier anyone had been charged with Preston's murder.
Queen Creek constabulary Chief Randy Brice confirmed detectives spoke with Reynolds, who provided accusation that aligned with their findings.
'The statements that were made that related to our lawsuit corroborated what we already knew. ... It was corroboration alternatively than a contradiction,' the constabulary main said. 'It's accusation that we already knew done a antithetic acceptable of interviews.'
The Renner location was raided by constabulary successful November, but Talan was not arrested until Wednesday.
Renner's different lad Kyler has been charged successful transportation with 2 abstracted pack attacks astatine a parking store and a location enactment successful 2022.
Travis Renner was besides arrested successful January connected suspicion of cause possession and paraphernalia charges portion his lad Kyler was taken into custody implicit the pack unit claims.
The begetter has not been charged with the alleged coverup.
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