Schoolgirl’s Insane Explanation for Why She and Her Friends Beat Elderly DC Man Reggie Brown to Death

A 15-year-old girl told the court she and her friends beat Reggie Brown, an elderly, disabled man, to death because they were “bored”.

The shocking admission by the girl, who will spend the next three years locked up in a youth facility, came during her testimony Tuesday against two friends on trial for first-degree murder.

On the day Brown died in October 2023, the teenager said she and a group of five girls, ages 12 to 15 at the time, skipped school and went to an ice rink from Maryland before gathering at a friend’s house in northwest Washington, DC. reported the Washington Post.

Donning pink hoodies and hats, the girls went for a walk.

“We were bored,” the 15-year-old said in Washington Superior Court. “We were looking for someone to beat up.”

Reggie Brown, 64, weighed just 110 pounds and was suffering from cancer and debilitating lupus when he was allegedly beaten to death by a group of five girls in a Washington, DC alley.

At the time, Brown, 64, weighed just 110 pounds and was suffering from cancer and debilitating lupus. The combination of illnesses was degrading his body and he had already lost most of his fingers.

Family members said he would wander around late at night, something they said he did regularly to cope with his cancer treatments.

The 15-year-old girl testified that she and her friends came across Brown on Georgia Avenue NW, where an unidentified man was already attacking her in an alley.

Some members of the girl gang have previously testified that the unknown man – who was never arrested – forced them to beat Brown while brandishing a gun.

There is no evidence to support this claim, and the 15-year-old said it is not true.

Instead, she said she approached the unidentified man to ask if his friends could join him.

Cell phone video and surveillance footage captured the girls mercilessly attacking Brown. They were seen kicking him, hitting his head against the pavement, pulling his pants down to his ankles and removing his belt to hit him with it.

Cell phone video and surveillance footage captured the girls mercilessly attacking Brown.

The girls were seen on video kicking Brown, slamming his head into the pavement, pulling his pants down around his ankles and removing his belt to beat him with it.

The various clips, which also showed them celebrating what they had done, were played several times in court.

“Why did you beat him?” D.C. Attorney Gabrielle LoGaglio asked the teen Tuesday.

“I don’t know,” she replied, later describing Brown as “old and short.”

The 15-year-old said Brown broke away from the stranger who was attacking him and started running when the girls chased him.

She said the 14-year-old in the group, who is currently on trial, climbed a fence and jumped on Brown, knocking him to the ground.

That’s when the other girls started attacking him. She said it was her 13-year-old sister, who is due to stand trial later this year, who removed Brown’s belt and whipped him with it.

The video showed her shouting, “Belt yourself to a**.”

At Tuesday’s hearing, a 15-year-old girl who participated in the beating testified against two friends on trial for first-degree murder.

The prosecutor pulled graphic stills from the video showing the 14-year-old girl kicking Brown in the head as he lay in a pool of blood on the sidewalk.

The 15-year-old girl testified that she got to know some of the teenagers accused of participating in the beatings at a recreation center.

During the many separate proceedings, it was revealed the teens had discussed Brown’s death on Instagram posts and said they feared going to prison.

The 15-year-old girl told the prosecutor that as she and her friends fled the alley, she said to herself, “He’s dead.”

“I felt bad,” she said. “I had too many emotions.”

The five girls have been detained in the city’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services since their arrest.

Judge Kendra D. Briggs presides over trials of girls accused of Brown’s murder

At her sentencing last week, the 15-year-old said she was following her little sister’s example, a decision for which Judge Kendra D. Briggs chastised her.

“I made a very big mistake. I just wanted to be by my sister’s side. But what we did was wrong,” she said.

The 15-year-old initially pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but prosecutors downgraded the charge to assault with a dangerous weapon, which they said was her foot.

LoGaglio said the teen delivered a single kick to Brown in the upper body, then backed away while the others continued to beat him.

Autopsy results showed Brown died from blows to the head, not the torso.

Before the girl took the stand to testify against her friends on Tuesday, it was revealed that a second 15-year-old charged with murder in Brown’s death had pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy.

The teen will be sentenced on the charge in the coming weeks, the Post reported.