Teenager killed in brawl

Teenager killed in brawl

JAKARTA (JP): A teenage chicken vendor was killed in a case of
mistaken identity early Friday morning during a brawl in Kampung
Siluman, Bekasi, the father of the dead youth claimed on Friday.

Suparman, 17, was stabbed in the chest by a group of young men
who thought that he was one of their enemies, Rosidi said.

Rosidi, a resident of Tambun subdistrict, said his son went
with friends to see a movie playing at a makeshift village cinema
in Kampung Siluman. He said that on the way home, Suparman was
attacked by the group, who mistook him for somebody else.

"He tried to explain that he was not the one they were looking
for, but they just didn't listen," Rosidi said from the morgue at
Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital.

Suparman, the eldest son of Rosidi's three children, helped
his mother who sells meat at a market in Bekasi. He quit school
because his parents could no longer afford the education fees.

"He was a good boy. He never went out late at night," Rosidi
said. (01)