If you’ve been on Facebook at all in the past 24 hours, you’ve probably come by this video by now.
It’s of a 14-year-old Smylie Wilson Middle School student being attacked at Maxey Park by another teen and two adult men.
The incident took place after school hours on Wednesday afternoon. According to the 14-year-old boy’s grandmother, the boy had been receiving threatening texts from the other juvenile who would later attack him at the park. She advised him to not text back, but when he didn’t, the three men still managed to find him.
The boy’s grandmother says he was walking his two friends home from school when a red car pulled up to them at the park. Things soon turned violent when three individuals got out and began to attack him.
As the fight progressed, the father of the two younger men, 41-year-old James Ybarra, then joined in on the brawl.
Moments leading up to the attack, the 14-year-old handed his phone off to one of the friends who recorded it all on video. The friend who recorded the attack, and who is said to be seven months pregnant, was also attacked by one of the men with a baseball bat.
“How can a father let his grown children jump on a 14 year old kid? He’s just a kid,” said Sandra Daniels, the 14-year-old’s grandmother. “If a word upsets you that much, then he needs to realign himself, get his priorities straight and teach his sons, because that was just totally ridiculous.”
After the attack, the 14-year-old and his friends fled to Smylie Wilson Middle School to seek help and Lubbock ISD Police were called by school personnel. They were soon taken to the UMC emergency room where they were treated for their injuries.
All of them are reportedly doing fine now.
The assailants were identified from the cell phone video taken by one of the victims. The juvenile assailant is now in police custody, and warrants were issued today for the two adults, James Ybarra, 41, and David Ybarra, 23.
“We’re praying and holding fast. Holding fast, because justice will be done,” said Daniels.