'I said I wanted to be part of a family,' Arrington testified. Me and my son didn’t have nowhere to go, and that’s where I went because I thought they were cool people.'Īrrington eventually learned that her adoptive 'family' was, in fact, a violent street gang, and by mid-April its members invited her to join. 'I wanted to be part of a family,' Arrington told the court during the hearing in December. They let her stay with her son at an apartment in the Arlay Point apartment complex, and seemed to take care of one another. These 10 alleged members of the Outlaw Bloods street gang in Norfolk, Virginia, are facing charges for the April 2020 attack on 20-year-old Brianna Arrington, who survived despite being shot in the eye, stabbed and nearly drowned in bleachĪrrington said she was working two jobs to support her two-year-old son but was still homeless when in November 2019 she met Skylar 'Thump' Webb, 18, who, in turn, introduced her to fellow members of the Outlaw Bloods, according to police.Īrrington claimed she did not know at first that her new acquaintances were gang members. More than 15 months after the near-fatal attack, the case against Arrington's 10 accused would-be killers, all suspected members of the Outlaw Bloods street gang from Norfolk, is still winding its way through Virginia's court system.ĭuring a preliminary hearing in December, about eight months after her brush with death, Arrington testified during a preliminary hearing about her harrowing ordeal.Īs she testified, she removed her prosthetic eye to show her horrific wound to the court. She was stabbed multiple times, possibly strangled,' the prosecutor recounted in court, as reported by The Virginian-Pilot. 'She was beaten by all of the members of the gang that were there. The gang members then took Arrington's son, drove him 5 miles and dumped him in the street, where hours later a sanitation worker found the toddler wandering alone in a downpour.Īssistant Commonwealth's Attorney Katie Beye said during a hearing earlier this month that Arrington is lucky to be alive, despite having lost an eye and the hearing in her right ear. A Virginia mother was savagely beaten in front of her sobbing two-year-old son, had bleach poured down her throat, was shot through the eye, stabbed multiple times and left for dead after attempting to leave a Bloods offshoot gang she had joined just days earlier, according to prosecutors.īrianna Arrington, 20, was found bloodied and clinging to life in the front seat of a Mercedes nine hours after her tormentors had tried their best to kill her in April 2020.