GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A 17-year-old high school student is brutally beaten during a basketball game.The teen’s parents said he was severely injured during what they call an ‘unprovoked attack.Allyssa Brooke-Cox said the attack at a rec center in Sugar Hill left her son with a broken jaw, a severe concussion, and whiplash.
Even though it happened off school grounds, she wants school district leaders to hold everyone involved accountable.""It's taken a mental toll on him," James Cox said.Nick Cox spent his 17th birthday being fed liquids through a syringe by his mother."He has a broken jaw in three places," Allyssa Brooke-Cox described her son's injuries. "It was a clean break on the right side and two breaks on the right.