him in that tape. pam feels good about setting up the camera and has a message for teens who think they can get away with even a little crime. be careful what you do. you might be being taped. you just never know who s watching you. and don t come to my house anymore. coming up i was outraged. a 16-year-old girl lured to a house of horror. you look at the animalistic behavior, a pack mentality where they just beat her and beat her and beat her. yeah, baby. ooh, yeah. and they film the entire assault, a video that shocks the nation when caught on camera: teens gone wild continues.
i was too busy, you know, killing some girl. you are about to see a dark and disturbing drama that will end in a shallow grave. we re burying you alive. you are going to die. her eyes glow because of the setting on the camera. what you re seeing on this video, is it a kidnapping? a crime? or were these actors in a sick, amateur movie, a movie this young woman was acting in? are you starting with me? dude, i m blushing. i appreciate that. killer number one. thank you, i ll be here all weekend. killer number one. the driver. jimmy. trav is travis payea, part of a group of young men who rented this dingy party house in flint, michigan. 19-year-old danielle taylor is a cashier for a fast food restaurant. she comes over late one night in 2002 to visit travis. suddenly, she is wrestled to the ground. hold her. her hands and legs bound.
the two girls that you have been running your mouth about over myspace and threatening are in the house. please do not go in the house. relatives of the other suspects also speak out. she is a very good person, and she s my baby girl, period. if y all saw the video, it was a one-on-one fight. there was no gang beating. it s our sheriff trying to show this. that s all it is. sheriff grady judd doesn t buy it. he says that videotape speaks for itself. i was outraged. i mean, when you looked at the violence, when you looked at the animalistic behavior, the pack mentality where they just beat her and beat her and beat her, and the reality of it is, the piece that you re seeing on television is after they knocked her unconscious and she regained consciousness. there s a lot more to that beating than just that two or three minutes of tape that we have. he also believes certain websites enable this type of behavior.
come on. after a half hour of this torture, tori is finally released and driven to meet another friend who describes her as having blood in her mouth, a big knot over her left eye. tori s rushed to the hospital. she suffers a concussion, bruising and damage to her left eye and ear. the police are called, and eight teens are arrested. six girls who were inside the home and two guys who stood outside as lookouts. the sheriff s department releases a snippet of the videotape, and it becomes breaking news. let s begin with that ambush in florida. eight florida teens, the youngest just 14. they posted a savage beating on youtube. all eight are accused of kidnapping and battery in the beating attack on a 16-year-old. matt lauer from nbc s today show interviews christina garcia, the mother of mercedes nichols about the beating. what about the actual beating on tape? do you think this has been overblown? i wouldn t say that. mercedes, my daughter warned this girl before she ca
believes the brutal attack was because mercedes was also angry at her for borrowing a hairbrush and a razor from the house without telling her. it may sound unbelievable, but it apparently sparks this beating and sets it in motion. why did you [ bleep ]. don t [ bleep ]. the assault takes place over a span of 30 minutes. at one point on the video, tori pleads with her attackers to let her leave the home. huh-uh. you re not leaving. let me leave! i ll go home. no! but they refuse to release her and continue the vicious assault. don t ever [ bleep ]. why don t you like her? why don t you like her? don t act adding to the brutality of the beating is the fact that someone s videotaping the entire scene. the attackers are not only beating the victim but playing to the camera. the girl holding the video camera says to the others, as if she were directing a motion picture, to make it good. make this 17 seconds good.