Black Gets Just 10 Years for Savage Beating of Young White Teen

WBTV
January 11, 2014

Carter Strange just days after the beating
Carter Strange after being released from hospital. The family said they have suffered immensely.
Strange, who had just graduated from Dreher High School, was found unconscious by passersby around 2 a.m. He was beaten so badly his parents have said they did not recognize him in the emergency room.
The family was left with nearly $100,000 in medical bills after Strange spent time in an intensive care unit and had brain surgery.

The eighth suspect in the 2011 beating of a Columbia teen has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Nineteen-year-old Yahquann Gantt was sentenced Thursday on charges of aggravated assault and battery, robbery and criminal conspiracy. Gantt will get credit for being in jail since his arrest in June 2011.

Eighteen-year-old Carter Strange was attacked as he jogged through the Five Points area to get home before his parents’ midnight curfew.

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Yahquann Gantt was one of eight Black teens, ranging in age from 13 to 19, who attacked Strange as he jogged home through Five Points to meet his parents’ midnight curfew. Four teens chased down Strange and began punching and kicking him. Another four waited by their cars while the assault happened.

Police say Strange was attacked by four teens while four others were waiting in a nearby car and did nothing to stop or report the assault.

Vicki Strange told Circuit Judge Michael Nettles that her son’s beating has changed her family forever.

After the attack, more surveillance cameras were installed in the neighborhood near the University of SouthCarolina.