Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Picture of 15-year-old Aboriginal boy, Cassius Turvey, in coma at the hospital goes viral after being lynched and killed with metal pole in Perth, Australia. (Read More Here).
Comments and posts described Cassius as a “sweet boy” with a “kind and gentle soul”.
A candlelight vigil has been organised for 5:30pm at Midland Oval on October 31, coinciding with Halloween, which organisers have described as Cassius’s favourite holiday.
“Please come stylin’ up in your best Halloween costume!!” the event details stated.
The community is also planning to run vigils at various locations across the country on November 2.
Multiple surgeries were not enough to save him after he was admitted to hospital with serious head injuries and later placed in an induced coma.
The family has given the ABC permission to use a photo of Cassius that was taken as he lay in hospital.
Jack Steven James Brearley, 21, was remanded in custody yesterday when he faced Midland Magistrates Court charged with murder.
A GoFundMe organised for Cassius’s family, titled #justiceforcassius, has raised more than $70,000.
The 15-year-old’s death comes little more than a month after his father died with cancer.
Cassius Turvey’s mother reflects on the beautiful nature of her ‘gentle giant.’
The 15-year-old died after being brutally attacked while walking home from his Perth school.
WARNING: This story contains distressing content and images of someone who has passed.
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