A family is shaken after finding out a rope was wrapped around an eight-year-old boy's neck before he was allegedly pushed off of a table, leaving him hanging and swinging around.
The boy's grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, explained to Valley News that her biracial grandson was playing in a yard when a group of white teens began throwing sticks and rocks at his legs while they calling him racial slurs before the rope from a tire swing ended up wrapped around his neck.
Slattery claims:
"The [teenagers] said, 'Look at this,' supposedly putting the rope around their necks. One boy said to [Slattery's grandson], 'Let's do this,' and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him."
There were no adults around when the frightening moment took
The boy's grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, explained to Valley News that her biracial grandson was playing in a yard when a group of white teens began throwing sticks and rocks at his legs while they calling him racial slurs before the rope from a tire swing ended up wrapped around his neck.
Slattery claims:
"The [teenagers] said, 'Look at this,' supposedly putting the rope around their necks. One boy said to [Slattery's grandson], 'Let's do this,' and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him."
There were no adults around when the frightening moment took