--- description: Thousands of dollars in donations are pouring in to help a mentally disabled Chicago teenager who was seen this week on Facebook Live video title: Hundreds Donate to Mentally Disabled Chicago Teen Beaten on Facebook Live image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb3286314577348b/6988b483e20a873fcda93a70/chicago-teen-beatup.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hundreds Donate to GoFundMe Page for Mentally Disabled Chicago Teen Beaten on Facebook Live  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:53 PM CUTPublished: Jan 5, 2017 7:51 PM CUT  This image from a video that was broadcast live on Facebook and later posted on Vidme shows a frame in which a man, right, is assaulted in Chicago. The video shows the man with his mouth taped shut as a woman and other people cut off his shirt and hair with a knife, and someone pushes his head with his or her foot. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, that the victim has mental health challenges, and he called the video "sickening." This image from a video that was broadcast live on Facebook and later posted on Vidme shows a frame in which a man, right, is assaulted in Chicago. The video shows the man with his mouth taped shut as a woman and other people cut off his shirt and hair with a knife, and someone pushes his head with his or her foot. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, that the victim has mental health challenges, and he called the video "sickening."AP  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:53 PM CUTPublished: Jan 5, 2017 7:51 PM CUT Supporters have donated [thousands of dollars](https://www.gofundme.com/lets-show-the-chicago-victim-love "undefined") to help a mentally disabled Chicago teenager who was seen on disturbing Facebook Live video being [beaten and taunted while tied up.](http://time.com/4624222/chicago-teen-facebook-live-beating-hate-crime-charges/ "undefined") Hundreds of people as of Thursday evening have given more than $16,000 to go toward the unidentified young man who was bloody, bound and gagged while his attackers menaced him, sliced up his clothing with a knife, forced him to drink from a toilet, repeatedly called him out for being white and [invoked the name of President-elect Donald Trump](http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/man-tied-up-tortured-kidnapped-chicago-facebook-live-video-white-trump-voter-suspects-brittany-herring-full-uncensored/ "undefined"). “For those of you that have seen the horrific torture and trauma recently inflicted on a young man in Chicago, it is not something you will soon forget,” Razor Sheldon, who is organizing the fundraiser from California, wrote on the page. “The perpetrators have been apprehended and hopefully swift justice will be served. But let’s take an opportunity now to show this young man and his family some financial support during this difficult time of recovery and let him know there are many out there that are here for him.” It wasn’t immediately clear Thursday when or whether the funds would reach the family. Both Sheldon and GoFundMe were trying to contact the victim’s family to ensure they’d receive the money. The 18-year-old victim has not yet been publicly identified. Police said he goes to school with of one of the attackers and went with that person voluntarily at first. The suspects—Jordan Hill, 18, Tesfaye Cooper, 18, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24—were charged Thursday with multiple crimes, including hate crime, aggravated kidnapping, robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. 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