Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 25, 1990 TAG: 9003252115
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. LENGTH: Medium
Members of the legion skipped school, played at Satanism and lived together as a family by their own rules, investigators said. They established death as the penalty for violating the dating rule, and the warrant was a piece of paper with a black dot on it.
Troy Collins, 18, was handed his dotted paper in the woods west of Palm Beach on March 16, just before he was beaten with tire irons, chains and baseball bats, said Palm Beach County sheriff's detectives.
Collins was listed in stable condition Saturday at Wellington Regional Hospital.
In all, three juveniles and four adults were charged with attempted first-degree murder and with criminal mischief, sheriff's officials said. Another juvenile was charged as an accessory after the fact, and another with carrying a concealed firearm.
More arrests are likely, sheriff's Detective Paul Friedman said Saturday.
John Mears, 19, and Misty Perkins, 18, were released after posting bail, booking clerks said. Francis Essley and David Turner, both 21, remained in the county jail Saturday.
After Collins regained consciousness Tuesday, he told deputies about the group and how members baited him into the woods under the guise of fighting a rival gang.
Once there, he found he was to be punished for dating a non-member, he said. Collins told detectives he heard one member yell "Kill him! Kill him!" as he was being kicked and beaten.
Collins said he escaped by losing his attackers in the woods.
by CNB