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Arkansas-Pine Bluff student dies after gang initiation beating in Memphis
A University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff senior died after he was severely beaten as part of his initiation in the Bloods street gang, according to Memphis police.
Keith Saulsberry, a 22-year-old health and physical education major, was pronounced dead at Methodist South Hospital just after midnight Saturday.
A little more than an hour earlier, Saulsberry had been pummeled at the intersection of Double Tree Road and Western Park Drive in Southeast Memphis, according to a police affidavit.
Robert Barlow, a.k.a. "Bay Bay," and Raymond Clark, a.k.a. "Smooks," beat Saulsberry for three minutes while other gang members watched, the affidavit states.
Saulsberry submitted to the beating without fighting back per gang rules, said police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph. He was barely conscious at the conclusion of the fight and was breathing with difficulty.
He was killed by blunt force trauma to the head, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
Barlow, 24, said he noticed Saulsberry had trouble breathing but continued beating him until he became nonresponsive, according to the police report.
Instead of taking Saulsberry to a hospital, gang members took him to Barlow's nearby house on Double Tree, where they doused him with water for 30-45 minutes in an attempt to revive him. Barlow and another man eventually drove the victim to Methodist South Hospital at about midnight.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/26/arkansas-pine-bluff-student-dies-after-gang-initia/
A University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff senior died after he was severely beaten as part of his initiation in the Bloods street gang, according to Memphis police.
Keith Saulsberry, a 22-year-old health and physical education major, was pronounced dead at Methodist South Hospital just after midnight Saturday.
A little more than an hour earlier, Saulsberry had been pummeled at the intersection of Double Tree Road and Western Park Drive in Southeast Memphis, according to a police affidavit.
Robert Barlow, a.k.a. "Bay Bay," and Raymond Clark, a.k.a. "Smooks," beat Saulsberry for three minutes while other gang members watched, the affidavit states.
Saulsberry submitted to the beating without fighting back per gang rules, said police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph. He was barely conscious at the conclusion of the fight and was breathing with difficulty.
He was killed by blunt force trauma to the head, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
Barlow, 24, said he noticed Saulsberry had trouble breathing but continued beating him until he became nonresponsive, according to the police report.
Instead of taking Saulsberry to a hospital, gang members took him to Barlow's nearby house on Double Tree, where they doused him with water for 30-45 minutes in an attempt to revive him. Barlow and another man eventually drove the victim to Methodist South Hospital at about midnight.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/26/arkansas-pine-bluff-student-dies-after-gang-initia/