To sad ....a child makes a murderous mistake and two young lives are ruined ...Yariel Angel Sanchez had probably worked very hard to arrive at a level of skill that was marketable ..he carried the hopes of his family...now those hopes are gone

A baseball bat to the back of the head, a rock thrown from a distance, a broken bottle or a razor blade in a sneak attack, or a sucker punch and a quick retreat. Why is it we have never fought like men?

well we did back in the 80's humanity is becoming immune to remorse and pain.

arturo you are right, fight if you must but like a man. i was raised in b'klyn new york, had many fights in the street {in theses days lots of gangs}... but we never fought with baseball bats.... or knives, ect!... we used our fists win or lose we fought FACE TO FACE. maybe we where upset about some thing, but to take some ones LIFE!.... only GOD has that right not some punk in the streets that REALLY has no heart and has to hit some one in the back on the head with a BAT.... sounds like a real piece of SH------T to me..... like to go 1 round in a ring with him..... send him home crying to his mother with a BROKEN NOSE....

Now Franklin Almeirda is planning to collect baseball bats.

danny00.....
Thats wuts up ........thiers no courage or honer in these kids now a days ... i grew up in Miami and i was always fitting for one thing or the other but we did it TOE 2 TOE,.........to sucker punch someone ur cowerd, but to sneak a bat to the back of the head u have no "cojones" u might as well put on a dress and go to Boca Chica and make sum cash........

My Condolesenses to the Family and Parents

Sad very sad :(

What ! over a base ball, are you kidding me........What a sad day for Humanity, all Los Angeles mourns. I hope this Teen is arrested and brought to Justice. My prayers go to Yariel and his whole Family.

When any individual who is old enough to know the laws of society, and what is right and wrong within society breaks the law that protects the sanctity of human life by committing The act of murder that individula forefeits their own right to live.

My Condolescences to the Family

My Condolescences to the Family also. If the guy had a good deal maybe there was a iron clad contract with at least an insurance clause ...so the family can still escape poverty.

Maybe the police will do their job and bring the other youngster to justice. I have seen to many cases where the criminal can pay off police and even go to PR to escape justice.

As stated by arturo, danny00 and brugalymamajauna, over here in the DR there is no such thing as a fair fight; things are settled with bottles, machetes or guns, preferably against an unarmed opponent. Frequently heard terms by the so called macho´s are "un botellazo/machetazo/par de tiro" just for you looking at someone, you driving in a way that they do not agree with, etc. etc.

ps. I also wonder why it is that, though they should have plenty of experience with bottles, machetes and guns; those macho excuses for real men are actually quite bad in using their preferred arms: so I only can imagine how they fighting skills are when they do not have a weapon; not able to sneak up and sucker punch their opponent or jump him with a group of his "pana's"...

this thing ....this horrible lack of self control ....this crime of horrendous stupidity ....was committed by a self centered dumb@ss of 16 years of age.....what a tragedy