Wylie man beaten to death for asking teen to stop speeding Video

WYLIE - Police say a 28-year-old Wylie man was beaten to death by a group of teens all because he asked them to stop speeding near his home.

Since June, Jonathan Bird lived on South Third Street with his fiancé, Coti Duer, and cared for her three kids like they were his own.

"What these kids did was senseless," Duer said. "He he didn't fight back because they were kids."

Bird had just returned home from a fishing trip Saturday night with Duer's oldest son when the altercation happened.

"He phone called me that they were home so we could head home to meet them," Duer said. "And within five minutes of that phone call, I received a phone call from my 14-year old-son - hysterical - that Jonathan wasn't breathing and he had got beat up."

Just before midnight, police said a driver of a 2002 Dodge Ram sped around a corner near the Bird-Duer home with his tires squealing. Bird asked him to slow down.

"They didn't like it that he told them to slow down," said Det. Venece Perepickza, a Wylie police spokeswoman. "Within minutes, he was back with a truckload full of people and they literally beat him to death."


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A friend ran outside to break up the fight and called 911, but Bird was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The five suspects were arrested within hours. Four of them were only 16 years old. Police said they were neighborhood kids.

"There was a witness that actually saw them fleeing in their truck and he could identify two of them by name," Perepickza said.

The fifth suspect was 17-year-old Ethan Dorris. All of the teens were charged with murder.

This was the second tragic loss for the Duer family this year.

"First they lost their father; now, they've lost their father figure for a second time, eight months to the exact date," Duer said.

The children's biological father was named Jonathan as well.

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24pointbuck: What in the fuck

neoeyes4u: execute them by hanging in the town center. this is abhorrent!

calebrocks45: wow i live in wylie what happened to our litle country town?????

rbrandtleek: wow, so low.. wylie has changed alot in the pest few years

InsomniacGirl: Wylie resident here too....you're right, the town is going to shit, it seems.....

EztaticLove: whats sad is those teens who beat up the Mr Bird were my friends, im really sorry on their behalf, i know that seth and ethan are sorry as well. i know it doesnt change anything but its just a shocker to know that two boys i grew up with could do somthing to bad,

RedneckvilleTV: My question is what possessed the thought for all of them to do such a dumbass thing to someone over one of them being told to slow down around kids... did they really think they could all get away with it??

EztaticLove: well knowing them they did it with out thinking, and Ethan was just proven innocent but his 15** yr old brother has life. and they were most likely on drugs at the time, or drunk. and Seth told me he has a gun and was waving it, the news doesn't say EVERYTHING that went on, then again i don't know how well they would remember it, they're probably just saying stuff to get out of jail.

RedneckvilleTV: probably because the whole story wasn't correctly told to the news. and to actually be on enough drugs that you gather up enough of your illogically thinking friends thinking there would be no punishment for it... you've got to be a complete retard to do that shit. They ALL deserve life for what they did.

EztaticLove: all got life except ethan, they proved he never got out of the car. its scary how the oldest one was the smartest. im just really shocked by the whole thing.

RedneckvilleTV: he may have never gotten out of the car but he was involved with it. do you know what prison they went to?

EztaticLove: Collin Community Supervision & Corrections in Plano.

altgal6: These are those jerk-ass punks who sit on their video games and couldn't give a crap about other people. And it's their parent's fault, too, for not teaching them right and wrong. Hope they get what's coming to them by real "bad" dudes in jail...

altgal6: Funny how everyone is always so sorry after the evil deed is done. Doesn't bring back the dead guy!

EztaticLove: i know, but you cant be sorry with out reason, so its hard to be sorry before it happens...

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