FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD)- Fort Worth police have yet to make any arrests in the case of a 16-year-old former Timber Creek High School student who was viciously beaten two weeks ago.
The boy's mother, Cathy McOmber has taken to Facebook to share what she believes was retaliation against her son who had positively identified a burglary suspect to authorities back in July of 2020.
As reported on The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the boy was beaten, kicked and left with a concussion on Easter Sunday as he walked home in far north Fort Worth.
"I am being told despite my son positively identifying this man via the snap video he posted _ that they don't have enough and don't know who the other 3 boys are," McOmber said in a Facebook post. "As his mother, you can probably imagine how hard this is."
McOmber says a rap video was released just after the assault and featured one of the suspects talking about the attack towards her son.
Two weeks later and no arrests have yet been made in this case.
"The case has been submitted to the DA for consultation," said Fort Worth Officer Daniel Segura, a department spokesman, in a Wednesday email to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
McOmber is certain the attack is tied to July 2020, when three young men cornered her son at a store and attempted to rob him at knifepoint. He was able to run off to call 911 and later identified one of the juvenile suspects.
Two juveniles were placed under arrest along with 20-year-old Grant Lee Winingham, who was charged on Aug. 11, 2020, with robbery in the case. Winingham's trial is pending.
Fast forward to April 4th, four young men in a silver four-door sedan stopped and attacked McOmber's son and his friend as they were walking home, said McOmber.
"One suspect walked up to my son and asked him, 'What's your name?,'" and when my son answered, that man punched him," McOmber said. "Two other suspects joined in the beating, right there on the sidewalk."
Since the incident, McOmber has not seen anyone arrested and has spent thousands of dollars in medical bills for her son who recently had surgery to repair his broken nose.
"I am certain more can and should be done to hold these individuals responsible," McOmber said on Facebook. "I just need help to bring justice to this horrific attack."
