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Mr. Silverberg 11/15/2011 6:24:00 AM
Remember Dennis Lynch?............what happened to him? 1 yr before the incident? a prelude to what was to come................refresh the story?
"Michaelson and Dennis were driving Michaelsons black ranger on southgate, speeding and out of control, then fate intervened and killed Dennis, throwing him out Dave's back window, removing Dennis from the equation(there name:THE BIG BAD CORAL SPRINGS BULLYPUSSIES)
we miss Dennis.
Did Michaelson strike the last blow? we'll never know. These questions loomed, but michaelson soon moved out of town, like ohio or some bum-phuckbefore town.
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Justice4all 08/06/2011 9:33:00 PM
I hope that Brad rots in hell. He deserves it. More than this, he was a car thief in his 'lowrider" gang of crooks. Glad what went around came around for him. Justice is served.
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07/08/2011 8:25:00 PM
Brad is probably someone's b.1.t.c.h. right now. If that piece of s.h.1.t ever gets out, he's on my list
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Clgso69 06/08/2011 2:47:00 PM
HAHAHA..i love it..no one has said it better! im now a parent and if anyone ever did this to my kid..id be the one locked up!!!!
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JPT Grad 10/20/2010 8:18:00 AM
I went to Taravella, I knew Mills and his "possee" He was a Bully in numbers, He and His group often threatened to "kill" me. I heard rumors all the time that "They" were after me, I better watch my back. They would come up from behind and try to trip me or knock me down, knock my books out of my hands when I wasn't looking then they would laugh and run away before I could get up. They use to surround me (Always as a group,never one on one, one on one they were polite and respectful as hell because they knew thew were nothing without numbers) They would follow me after school, They had sent people I knew to the hospital. I agree with the majority of people in this posting, He certainly deserves what he got although I feel the judges were too liberal, I would have thrown all of those involved in the same cell no food, no water, no toilet and let them piss and shit all over and each other!! If they got hungry they could eat each other!! Just because someone has "rich" parents who think they can buy their way out of trouble does not make what he did right!! I'm sorry that they lost their little boy however they have not even closely felt what the parents of the boy who lost his life have!!
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JPT 10/02/2010 10:46:00 PM
I KNEW BRAD, MIKE AND ANDERSON. I PERSONALLY FOUGHT BRAD. HE AND HIS FRIENDS BLOCKED MY CAR WHILE I DROVE DOWN THE STREET TO MY HOUSE. I GOT OUT OF MY CAR AND BRAD PUNCHED ME IN THE FACE. NOT PHASED BY HIS PUNCH I WRESTLED HIM TO THE GROUND AND POUNCED HIS ASS UNTIL HIS FRIENDS PULLED ME OFF. HE WAS A BULLY AND A TROUBLE MAKER, BUT ONE ON ONE HE'S A PUSSY. MY GIRL FRIEND AT THE TIME DID ATTEND THE TRIALS. I DELIVERED PIZZA TO MIKE ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO AND COULDNT BELIEVE HE WAS OUT. THEY ALL DESERVED LIFE
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eyeswideopen 12/04/2009 8:59:00 PM
As a person that not only grew up in Coral Springs and knew all to well the makeup of the Coral Springs youth of that time, but was in attendance at every trail on this case and read every deposition. Justice was not served. I could write a novel as long as war and peace to correct errors and to point out facts that were not included in this poorly written article.
While many have their opinions of the people involved in this case, there were more than a dozen involved who were never arrested or publicly implicated, albeit their names soaked every page of deposition upon deposition of statements from party-goers who watched from above.
Fact is, some of the kid's behavior that night was disappointing in the sense that they weren't strong enough to stop it.
Moreover, Sintay himself took the stand in the trial against Madalone, Jamerson and Anderson and not only did he say that Anderson was NOT a participant in the kicking death of this poor child but he also said that he never saw Jamerson participate at all. Dave Michaelson was the only testimony provided by the state that implicated Mike Jamerson at all. Sintay wasn't located near the fight where his friend received the fatal blow and said on the stand that Anderson was in pursuit of him towards the grocery store located behind the complex. This after Sintay struck Anderson.
While Barychko's testimony says that he was only present at the end to check on the status of the beaten boy, dozens upon dozens depositions stated to the contrary, but because his lawyer was smart enough to continuously delay his trial- once it finally made it to the courts, it seemed the public outcry had been quieted and the public demand that was once present for justice had dissipated. Barychko, the same kid who once beat a jewish boy senseless and painted a swastika on the hood of his car, played the sweet college boy on trial. Where's his Academy Award for that?
Michael Primato - a Marine ( the one who threw the racial slur and was angry with Lou because of Lou's statements about the Marines) was arrested and then released from charges after a girl that slept with half of Taravella High School was coerced to say that he was in the bedroom with her at the time of the beating. I hope his family bought her something nice for that.
Truth of the matter is that Brad Mills, while reknown for being aggressive and violent plenty of other times, did not touch this kid. Although he did call attention to the matter and was the one that got most of the kids out of the party to address the angry threesome for the comments made upon their exit.
Look, on both sides of this fight were Coral Springs kids who were provided everything their parents could afford and rarely disciplined for their actions. Some were yuppies and equally as obnoxious and careless as the boys who drove around in trucks blasting Hank Williams music while those were as equally obnoxious as the boys who roamed parties and parking lots on Friday nights in their Cavaricci pants- objectifying girls and acting like they were invincible towards the law, their parents and mortality.
Something like this was bound to happen in a town where the kids drove nicer cars than their parents who were absent in their lives and naive enough to think that their money was all they needed to make them productive members of society and pave their road to success. Fact is, any kid who was at that party that night could have been involved and implicated because each kid walked around with as bravado as the next.
To me, it doesn't matter how good of a kid Lou was. He could have been the biggest prick in town. He didn't deserve what happened to him. Should his friends not said anything and just left the party like they were about to? Isn't that easy to say now. Doesn't justify what happened.
To call the investigation sloppy is an understatement. To call it tragic doesn't even give it justice. While the few boys that were implicated loss crucial years of their lives and hopes of greater success, the sun still shines on their face and their mother can hear their voice. We cannot say the same for Lou.
The girl that wrote this article went to Taravella and was just a few years younger than the boys that were involved. One would think, and hope, that someone that was so closely involved would have taken more time and care to report this story more honorably than she did.
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lauren 09/23/2009 12:29:00 AM
i dont know alot about this story but i do know Michael Barychko thow! he is practically a family membery to me! he is a verry harmless person from what i know! so i would never believe him to put anyone in any kind of danger! so for whatever reason the cops had to file this misdemeanor on him was done on an incorect situation!
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disgusted completely 06/24/2009 6:00:00 PM
"If I could change any of that, I would. But when you take him as a victim, and you victimize other people as well... How can I feel that bad when I've lost my life, too?"
ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I HOPE YOUR RAPED VIOLENTLY IN THERE! OR MAYBE SOMEONE YOU LOVE WILL GET KILLED BY A VIOLENT MOB SOMEDAY!
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disgusted completely 06/24/2009 5:37:00 PM
ok...are you nuts??? was this article written by brad himself?? cant be, he was too illiterate. louie was my best friend in the 7th and 8th grade. he was an amazing kid that wouldve grown up to be a man that couldve discovered the cure for cancer. i got into drugs and switched to taravella and then got to know chris and brad and jammer and willie and derek and metzger and michaelson...they were drunken bullies. they only fought in crowds. they looked for this every weekend. as soon as the jim beam hit the table it all went down hill...they used to drink it by the bottle. sooner or later this was gonna happen. im sorry louie! i shouldve come up. i dont know why i didnt but im sorry...ill live witht that regret forever!they all got off way too easy and ill see them in hell. remember!
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Slant 02/27/2008 5:24:00 PM
Nguyen and 4 other friends came drunk to this party threatening (assaulting) people. Kinda stupid since the host of this party and his friends were the equivalent of top UFC/MMA members today. . .yes, this crowd was not to be messed with if you weren't in it. Ruled Coral Springs proper with Iron Fists, but were generally very honorable.
What happened that night was a departure from the common, since this hybrid Taravella High/Tamarac/Coconut Creek crew of badasses that threw the party, weren't expecting strangers to waltz into their lair. Nguyen and friends were not supposed to be a challenge to this Taravella et al. crowd, but when they crash a party, boasting they have martial arts credentials, with bottles-by-the-neck at hand, you are bound to raise eyebrows in this hornet's nest. In an environment fueled by alcohol and adrenaline, Nguyen suffered the misfortune to have been left alone by his assaulting friends as a fight erupted. The indignation of the Taravella crowd increased as they saw the cowards flee, leaving Nguyen in a very explosive area. The criminality of that specific scene needs to be revisited by a court of law.
The prosecutor threw out a number (12) without objectively knowing it. There were 7 people involved (contact) with Nguyen and with one deathly blow (kick). I don't believe the prosecutor prosecuted the killer. His theory of you just 'try your best and you'll get enough of the subjects responsible' is not good enough and the Nguyen family should hold him accountable to criminally prosecute the actual killer.
The Taravella crowd was not a gang, nor were they racist or bullies. They were a group of men, and associated women, who demanded respect through action. Some people thought that was heavy, but it was always fair...until that night. Something out of the ordinary happened, and someone shouldn't have died. RIP Nguyen, and may your 'friends' forever understand that they placed you in a deadly predicament. To the Taravella crowd members that touched Nguyen, I wish you had your wits and been sober, so you wouldn't have touched him and to the kicker, may you learn that kicking someone while they are down and foresaken by their allies, is not brave or heroic...and you shall repent from doing that.
The people that serve(d) time in tis case, are peripherally involved, and their punishement does not fit the misdeed they commited. As per this article, the actual killer is still at large. I hope the state retracts their findings and prosecutes the real killer.
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Reporter00700 01/13/2008 11:40:00 AM
First off, I must say I have direct knowledge of this case, and personal details of the night this tragedy happened, and I must say the so called journalist who wrote this piece failed to report both sides of this story; and made it somewhat one-sided. This is in part most likely due to inexperience or just plain bad judgement in an editor's ability to direct the journalist. It is a shame in some sense, as I do feel for the parties who lost so many years of their lives (ie: Brad Mills, etc) in prison for one night of bad judgement, however, there was no mention of the victim's family or their feelings and their outcome to where they are today and how this incident has impacted their lives, etc. It is a fact that this group of friends that ran in Coral Springs in the early 90's era was of a 'bad' element, it is also a fact that this young man could have drove away from what turned out to be, sadly, his demise. As you look into both sides here you will find that racial slurs and pride destroyed more life energy than was necessary. As a reader, I want to know has anyone learned anything from all of this? Have they changed the way they think or their lives? What has Coral Springs Police Dept. done to be more organized and ready for the fact that this type of "hate" crime could happen again at any moment? Would they botch it up as badly as they have been accused of once again? Do they now teach about racial fairness in schools in Coral Springs/Broward County? We all know it was a horrible hate crime, at which a promising young man lost his life uneccesarily, and these others suffer(ed) in prison while ones involved and even potentially at fault for this young man's death got off, however, what has it changed? How did it impact the community, and even the nation as a whole, since it even grabbed national headlines?
It is this reporter's opnion that the journalist that wrote this dropped the ball, although the flowery descriptions of the "era" of the 90's and weather in South Florida is a nice commentary from Journalism 101, I think its missing the "meat" and most important issue of BOTH sides and the impact/outcome, positive or negative.. Better luck next time on gathering equal facts..
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Paul Fields 01/13/2008 6:28:00 AM
This article is typical of hyper-liberality gone mad. Feeling sorry for one of the many criminals makes me scream. I worked out with and knew Luyan from the gym on Wiles Road. He was a very small guy, like 5' 4". He told me he didn't like being so small but he did not have a Napoleon complex or any kind of attitude. He was a kind and beautiful human being. At the funeral, I was the only non-Asian there (for the twenty minutes that I could endure the death of my friend); his face was beaten so severely it was nearly twice its normal size. As far as I am concerned, everyone there was guilty of soliciting a felony beating (the same crime as in the film Accused starring Jodi Foster). No one tried to stop the beating. Although I was not there, I highly doubt that Luyan (a pre-med student) picked a fight with twenty or thirty people. Remember I lived in craphole Coral Springs and it is totally out of control with ubiquitous wanna-be tough guys like Brad Mills. They are pathetic little losers who wanted to show how bad they are by beating up a 5'4" pre-med student. I have no sympathy for anyone involved in that beating. Please write an article about Luyan and his family. He did not deserve to be murdered.
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Rachel Sintay 12/19/2007 5:58:00 AM
I agree with my brother. Your take on this case is slanted. Brad Mills is no victim. I was 15 years old when I met Brad Mills at his house with my mother. I will never forget the uneasy feeling I got around him. He had a bad reputation in Coral Springs. My brother was a 'prep' not a troublemaker. I am sure if he wanted to confront these kids, he was not looking for a fight and certainly not looking for these SICK individuals to kill his friend. I am sure all these 'victims' had such a hard time continually beating a man while he was down.
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Jeff Sintay 12/19/2007 1:57:00 AM
I figured this would be your take on the story, that is why I declined to comment. Your reporting is obviously somehow slanted. I will dispute a couple things in your article. I did not deny knowing who Brad was. My mother knew his mother. I did not "know" him. I had met him once, briefly, before that night. Also, I did not tell him to call those kids down. He did that of his own accord. If Brad is some kind of victim, it is because our justice system did not give the right punishment to the right person and his attorneys made a calculated mistake! It is obvious the person who administered the blow that killed Lou was not even prosecuted. This whole thing was evil. I am sorry for Brad's parents. As a parent, I cannot even imagine losing my child this way. However, they can still see him and talk to him. I am more sorry for Lou's parents because they don't even have that. They lost their oldest child, a talented, smart, soul. For what? So a bunch of drunk kids could get their jollies beating someone up! 20 against 3...hmmmm...sounds fair.
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CSHS Class of '91 12/15/2007 12:14:00 AM
I grew up in Coral Springs, and knew Lou, as well as the bullies who beat him to death. Your article seemed very sympathetic to Brad Mills and his family. Brad was a mean kid. I remember being at parties and being scared when those guys showed up, with baseball bats, looking for trouble. Those parents raised a mean and angry kid and I don't feel bad for them for a second.
