Who are Cole Hagan's attackers? 3 teens accused of beating footballer till his brain bled
LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS: A 16-year-old Lake Jackson teenager was admitted to the ICU at Houston's Memorial Hermann hospital unconscious after a brutal attack on December 3. Paramedics found the victim who was identified as Brazoswood footballer Cole Hagan outside a house party, unconscious and bleeding from the ears around 11.30 pm on Cherrywood Court. Hagan's family said he suffered two skull fractures, and a broken collar bone and a brain bleed because of the attack.
"They left him in the road after they finished attacking him and then texted one of his friends that were in the backyard of this house to say, 'Hey come get your boy out of the street.' They left him in the street, people who were supposed to be his friends," the victim's older brother Cory Hagan said to an ABC affiliate. Three Texan teenagers, aged 17 and 18, have been arrested and charged in this case after they reportedly lured Cole out of the party to attack him on the pretext that his truck got hit. Unfortunately, this is not the only incident of shockingly brutal teen-on-teen violence in recent months. In May 2020, #JusticeforJacob trended massively on Twitter after a Snapchat video emerged of four teens brutally beating Wisconsin teenager Jacob who was later hospitalized. Chase Passon, the main aggressor attacked him for hours while three females, one of them still a juvenile, cheered him on.
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Who are the three accused?
Hagan's family are determined to seek accountability from the people involved in the assault. They initially offered a reward of $1,000 for anyone who came forward with a video of the attack. "Supposedly there's a video. So I went on Facebook and said, 'Hey, I'll give you $1,000, if you bring the video.' It's a lot of money to a high school kid and the support just started rolling in," Cory said. The reward amount has now been set to $25,000 with help from the community. "The kids that planned this, the kids that instigated this, the kids that had something to do with it, watched it, left him in the road. Yeah, they all need to be punished," said Cory.
Court documents have identified the accused in Cole's attack as 17-year-olds Reid Mitchell, and Logan Huber; and Ayden Holland, 18. Huber and Holland first lured Cole out of the party after which Mitchell allegedly punched him in the face, slammed him in the concrete, and threw three or four hard elbows, a witness said. The police affidavit states Mitchell told police the attack was a result of the built-up animosity over "the victim's perceived behavior to some of their female acquaintances." The suspects were charged with aggravated assault and were released on a $20,000 bond each. They are expected to stand trial sometime in the coming week, a report stated. Cole is off the ventilator and is able to breathe on his own now. "He still has a long road ahead of him but he is fighting hard and we have faith that God will restore his health," Cory said.