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[Gunter S]

Charges in attack

He remembers talking to his brother before going to the dance.
After that, the 18-year-old Surrey resident’s next memory is briefly regaining consciousness in an ambulance on his way to hospital as paramedics worked to stabilize him.


He doesn’t recall any part of the savage beating that left him almost unrecognizable on the evening of Feb. 17, 2007.


On Thursday afternoon, the slender, dark-haired teen came to Surrey Provincial Court with his family for the first court appearances of four people arrested earlier this week in connection with the assault.
A 16-year-old boy and two 18-year-old Surrey males (who were 17 at the time of the attack) are charged with one count each of aggravated assault.


Because of their ages at the time of the assault, their names cannot be reported.


A fourth person, 18-year-old Jimme Tran of Surrey, is charged with one count of robbery for allegedly stealing the victim’s shoes.
Asked if it was upsetting to see his attackers, the survivor (whose family asked that their names not be used) shrugged.
“I don’t remember,” he said.


His mother said she was surprised at how much bigger the four were than her son, and how they all seemed older than their years.
Her second oldest child was found in some bushes outside a three-storey townhouse complex across the street from Johnston Heights Secondary School, near 99 Avenue and 153 Street.
He’d gone to a dance to meet a female friend (who was not his girlfriend).


Sometime during the evening, police say the teen was the victim of an unprovoked attack, savagely beaten, then dumped outside the townhouse nine hours after the initial assault.
After coming to in the ambulance, he slipped back into a coma.
His mother visited her unconscious son every day in hospital, putting earphones on him so he could listen to the gospel music he loves.
“I left it up to God,” she said.