“I would change schools two, three times a year and that was probably the roughest part,” he said in interviews. “[I got] beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved in the lockers, just, for the most part, being the new kid.”
At nine years old, the bullying escalated dramatically. Court papers indicate that he was beaten unconscious when a schoolmate hit him in the face with a snowball containing a heavy object during a game of “King of the Hill,” causing a concussion and temporary loss of vision in one eye.
His mother sued the Detroit school system for failing to protect him, though the case was ultimately dismissed.
The Home Environment: Neglect and Abuse
While school was challenging, home life was equally difficult. Marshall grew up in a household affected by substance abuse and instability.
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