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Family, neighbors speak out after gunmen slay sleeping 4-year-old in East Side drive-by shooting
http://www.mysanantonio.com/ ^ | 7/20/17 | Caleb Downs

Posted on 07/20/2017 5:00:30 PM PDT by BBell

"There's been so many," a neighbor said of shootings in the area. "It's just random. During the daytime, during the nighttime, all times of the day you just hear them shooting."

Family members are grieving and neighbors are outraged after an East Side drive-by shooting killed a 4-year-old boy and left the boy's mother with two gunshot wounds in her leg. Police said the gunmen involved in the shooting pulled up in front of a simple, one-story home in the 200 block of Hub Avenue around midnight Wednesday and opened fire. De-Earlvion Whitley lay sleeping in the front room of the home. Bullets ripped through the window panes and fatally struck the 4-year-old. He was pronounced dead at 12:03 a.m. on Thursday at the home.

His mother, 29-year-old Cyntwanisha Whitley, was struck twice in her left leg by the bullets. Police said the "intended victim" of the shooting was unharmed. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the shooting was likely gang-related and could be retaliation for a shooting earlier in the day that left two injured. Before noon on Thursday, De-Earlvion's grandfather, Brett William O'Connor, and other relatives gathered at a home near the scene of the shooting to grieve the loss of "Little Earl." "It saddens me that the streets have come to the point where innocent children are being killed in their sleep," he said. "The family is saddened by the loss of Little Earl. At this moment, we're just trying to piece our lives back together, which is going to take a long time." Cyntwanisha Whitley is currently recovering in the hospital but is struggling with the loss of her little boy, family said.

Family, neighbors speak out after gunmen slay sleeping 4-year-old in East Side drive-by shooting

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 4yearold; cyntwanisha; drivebyshooting; eastside; gunmen; sanantonio
It's hard to care about about Black lives matter, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, The NAACP, The Southern Poverty Law Center, etc. , when these types of things have become all to common. It's sad.
1 posted on 07/20/2017 5:00:31 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

How did Wakeshaumbalubloo evade the shots from Dershaurkaobumla?


2 posted on 07/20/2017 5:44:42 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BBell

If these shooting happen all the time, then move yourself and your family. Like, duh, can you be any more stupid to stay there and let your babies be murdered in their sleep?


3 posted on 07/20/2017 5:47:38 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: BBell
It's just random

I seriously doubt it.

4 posted on 07/20/2017 6:07:24 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: BBell

“San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the shooting was likely gang-related and could be retaliation for a shooting earlier in the day that left two injured....”

Well, that makes it even and alright according to the Police Chief, although it it hard to imagine a 4 year old being an effective gang member.


5 posted on 07/20/2017 6:08:13 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: BBell

San Antonio has been hitting the news a lot more lately ... trying to catch up to Houston?


6 posted on 07/20/2017 6:09:58 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: BBell
"It's just random"

The other possibility is "Black Lives Matter."

7 posted on 07/20/2017 6:14:35 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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I am sure nobody dindu nuffin


8 posted on 07/20/2017 6:22:44 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: BBell
De-Earlvion Whitley Cyntwanisha Whitley? really?? WTF???
9 posted on 07/20/2017 6:28:39 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: BBell

“Cyntwanisha”

Um, yea.

L


10 posted on 07/20/2017 6:29:37 PM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: BBell

De-Earlvion never had a chance with a mother named Cyntwanisha.


11 posted on 07/20/2017 7:15:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BBell

explain why they happened to just pick her house.

i really want to know.


12 posted on 07/20/2017 7:20:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Love it when the names give it all away. Saves time.


13 posted on 07/20/2017 7:21:53 PM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (We need to start drinking out of the skulls of our enemies again. Dims, Slimes, Rinos, F em all)
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To: Chode

But how do we explain grandfather Brett William O’Connor? Is Brett William Cytwanisha’s father? Or is he from the other side of the family?

Well, the names are pretty bad, but nothing justifies murdering a 4 year old. Despicable. But odds are they do know who did it and won’t say. So it’ll be hand wringing all around but no snitching.


14 posted on 07/20/2017 7:22:18 PM PDT by jocon307
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of course they know... and NO they won't help to PoPo even now so let-em rot
15 posted on 07/20/2017 7:25:55 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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“...and Cyntwanisha begat De-Earlvion”

Nope, that’s not a new KJV in the making.


16 posted on 07/20/2017 8:01:07 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Have to wonder if the court granted Cyntwanisha’s petition to have the “u” changed to a “y.”


17 posted on 07/20/2017 8:03:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BBell

Which party runs San Antonio?


18 posted on 07/20/2017 9:28:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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