On his first night out of the hospital since he survived being set on fire two months ago, Michael Brewer watched a movie while lounging on a couch and eating a pizza snack, his mother said Wednesday.
"We got our Christmas last night when he came home from the hospital," Valerie Brewer said during a news conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Her son, who was burned on about two-thirds of his body in the Oct. 12 attack, was discharged from the hospital's burn center Tuesday.
Michael, 15, is staying at a house his mother described as a "safe place." She refused to disclose its location.
Three teens have been charged as adults with second-degree attempted murder for allegedly dousing the teen with rubbing alcohol and setting him aflame. Investigators say the attack was in retaliation for Michael's calling 911 when one of them tried to steal his father's bicycle.
If convicted, Jesus Mendez, 16, Matthew Bent and Denver Jarvis, both 15, could be sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Valerie Brewer said her family plans to stay in South Florida, but not in their old Deerfield Beach neighborhood, where the attack occurred and where relatives of the accused youths live.
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