FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A teenager doused with alcohol and set ablaze by middle school classmates testified Thursday he thought he would die and feared the alleged ringleader but also revealed for the first time a marijuana pipe and not a video game was the original cause of their dispute.

Michael Brewer, now 17, testified in the attempted second-degree murder trial of Matthew Bent that he didn’t to school that October 2009 day because he feared reprisals. Bent, also 17, had been arrested the day before on a charge that he tried to steal a bicycle belonging to Brewer’s father. Those charges remain pending.

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