Miami Skateboarder beaten by gang of black males..
Lied about it, because he has skating without a helmet and slammed into a wall..
Rene Betancourt was beat up, not by thugs, but by a garage wall.
The broken, bruised man who shattered his skull was hospitalized for days while Miami police looked for potential assailants. The investigation ended Friday when police released a surveillance video, showing Betancourt’s face-first encounter with a concrete column while he was skateboarding.
Detectives spent two weeks trying to put the pieces together of a story with more than a few holes in the story,Betancourt, 22, an avid skateboarder, was found bloodied and disoriented in a downtown parking lot on July 6, inside his sister’s Fiat 500.
His parents found him slumped in the car and took him to Ryder Trauma Center where doctors treated his severe injuries, included a laceration to his head and a fractured orbital bone. Doctors removed a life-threatening blood clot from his brain, which swelled from the impact.
Shortly after he was admitted to the ER, detectives questioned Betancourt, who, according to the original police report, told investigators he was “jumped by 4 to 5 unknown black males.” His faint answers quickly escalated into a story of a brutal attack, which dominated local media for days. Headlines reported on his recovery and his first steps were televised.
Jackson Memorial Hospital set up a donation fund for his medical bills. Miami Longboard Crew organized a fundraiser for their fellow skater, in response to what Miami Police had said was an apparent robbery.
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