Derrion Albert was kicked and hit with wooden planks during an afternoon melee in Chicago, Illinois.
The high-achieving "honour roll" student, from Christian Fenger Academy High School, was walking to a bus stop when he got caught up in the clash.
Mobile phone footage of the attack begins with a manic street fight between two groups.
One of several young men wielding wooden planks then hits Derrion on the head.
The teenager falls to the ground and appears to try to get up until he is struck again and then kicked. Five people then attack him on the ground.
Silvonus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, Eric Carson, 16, and Eugene Bailey, 18, have been charged with first-degree murder after the footage was handed to police.
Chicago police said they were looking for at least three more suspects.
The violence stemmed from a shooting on Thursday involving two groups of students from different neighbourhoods.
When school ended, members of the groups began fighting near the Agape Community Centre.
Tandra Simonton, Cook County prosecutor's office spokeswoman, said Derrion was a bystander and not part of either gang.
The killing has ramped up pressure on officials to crack down on chronic violence involving young people in the city.
More than 30 students died violently during the past school year.
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