police said was a dispute over $ 40 , a video game and a bicycle . All three teens are charged as adults with one count of attempted murder . Each has pleaded not guilty . If convicted , each could face a sentence of up to 30 years in prison . The family did not return to their Deerfield Beach , Florida , home , and does not plan to , Valerie Brewer said . Instead , they went to `` a safe place '' -- both so they can have privacy and so Michael Brewer can feel secure . `` He does n't feel safe going back to the neighborhood , '' she said . `` The families of the boys live within five blocks of us . He does fear for his life going back there . ... He does n't want to go back and I do n't blame him . We 're looking forward to moving on and having some peace . '' She told CNN in an interview later Wednesday the family is looking for another home . Brewer , who suffered second - and third-degree burns over about two-thirds of his body ,
Miami , Florida -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- He wanted to sit outside for a while and enjoy the night air , then took a shower and curled up on the couch to watch a cartoon movie . A boring night by many teenagers ' standards . But 15-year-old Michael Brewer , who suffered burns over 65 percent of his body in October -- allegedly at the hands of a group of youths he knew -- reveled in it , his mother told reporters Wednesday . Being out of a hospital burn unit , she said , was `` the only thing he wanted for Christmas . '' `` He 's really looking forward to spending Christmas with his family , '' Valerie Brewer said of her son , who was released from the University of Miami 's Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center on Tuesday . `` We hope everybody has as wonderful a Christmas as we 're going to have . '' Three teens -- Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent , both 15 , and Jesus Mendez , 16 -- are accused of being in a group that poured alcohol over Brewer and set him ablaze October 12 in what