Posted on 07/13/2014 3:15:03 PM PDT by Drew68
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Family and friends gathered outside of a Dayton shopping plaza to remember a teen shot in an apparent robbery attempt.
Isiah Haggins Jr., 16, was shot multiple times by the owner of the Step-N-Style clothing store in the Northwest Shopping Plaza on West Siebenthaler Avenue on June 30. Police said Haggins, along with another suspect, walked into the store armed with guns in a reported robbery attempt.
Since Haggins’ death was declared a homicide, the Sisters of the Precious Blood held a vigil for him Saturday afternoon.
People gathered Saturday outside of the store to pray for Haggins and his family; his mother says the loss is tough.
“He was a young child that made a bad decision that cost him his life, But he was only 16. I’m pretty sure we’ve all done something that could cost us our lives at the age of 16. He was not a bad kid. He was just a child trying to be a teenage,” said Haggins’ mother Candace Talbott.
Police said the Step-N-Style owner was acting self defensive when he shot Haggins Junior; another suspect remains on the loose following the attempted robbery at the urban clothing store.
Talbott recognizes that her son’s actions were wrong but his death is not something she can let go.
“Do not let this just fly away as if it was just a murder that may have been justified. My son was shot four times. A 16-year-old kid was shot four times.”
Talbott says her son simply fell in with the wrong crowd.
Her family agrees noting that they had a feeling some of the guys he hung around were up to no good.
Now as they remember their loved, they urge all parents to trust your instincts and save your children from what happened in this case.
“And I want every parent to understand,you can say it, because I’ve said it before, ‘not my kid, my child would never do anything like that’ You can say it all day but once that child walks outside your door, you’re no longer around him, you do not known what that child will do,” said one attendee of the vigil.
The second suspect who was with Haggins Jr. fled and is still on the loose.
Police are reviewing surveillance video from the store and the shopping plaza as part of their investigation.
“They are a borderless nation within ours. A foreign, alien people incompatible, hostile, and mortally dangerous to the rest of society.”
And it is not only in this country. The same thing has happened in every country on the planet where they have been allowed to emigrate.
I suppose that they will use the excuse that the rest of the world is wrong. There are even some of those people who have emigrated to China. Guess where the highest crime-rate in China is.
You should see his Facebook page!!!
My ancestors were there by the mid `800’s so my parents use to tell us that we were related to most and the others were related to one of ours. When my older nieces and nephews started dating, my mom could go back and find out we were related to them. Made their dating very interesting.
Thanx, brother
Any relation to Jengus Khan ?
(intentional phonetic spelling)
any teen doing bad with a deadly weapon is a bad kid. period.
no matter what color. white, black, yellow, brown...
See #79 for one possibility...
“I want answers,” said Isiah Haggins Sr., father of Isiah Haggins Jr. “And I want the truth.”
Haggins’ grandmother, Kay Haggins, wants to see Step-N-Style’s surveillance video as proof that her grandson posed a threat to the store owner.
“I want to know what happened, where he was shot?” she said. “Was it self-defense? Because it’s their word and he’s not here to speak for himself. We don’t know. We are just going by what (the store owner) said. I just want to know how my grandchild died.”
Another store owner said: “These incidents have escalated over the years. You used to only have to worry about fights outside. Now we have to worry about guns inside.”
Haggins’ family said he had been in some troubles in the past — he’d been expelled from Trotwood-Madison High School because of bad grades, behavior problems and for shoplifting — but that he also was an intelligent, talented musician. His maternal grandmother, Carrie Gober, said her grandson produced other people’s music in her house, he started hanging with the wrong crowd.
“He started hanging with some guys that I didn’t know. I just didn’t feel comfortable with the boys,” Gober said. “I told little Isiah that I didn’t feel comfortable with them. I didn’t know them. I didn’t trust them.”
Gober said she argued with her grandson about his new friends, but that he hadn’t been mixed up in a bad crowd until perhaps recently.
“Just because he had dreds and tattoos, that doesn’t mean he was a thug,” she said. “He wasn’t. He was a home baby. He loved to be home. I don’t know what happened to make him go down that road. It’s not him.”
Haggins’ father said he wonders about everything that happened with his son Monday.
“What was going through his mind? I had spoken to him that morning and we were supposed to hang out,” the elder Haggins said. “He wanted to go shopping, so he was going to call me back. He never called me back.”
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Isiah lived most recently with his maternal grandmother in Dayton, after living in Atlanta with his mother, Candace Talbott and then his father in Trotwood. They insist he was never in any trouble and was just a fun loving teen who was an aspiring musician and was enrolled at the Mound St. Academy – ready to start there in August.
Police say Haggins, Jr. had an accomplice with him when he tried to rob the store. They ask if you know who that person is to contact 222-7867.
North Face...yeah, I climbed Mt. Washington. When I wasn’t robbing stores.
Armed robbery never crossed our minds.
I'm not sure who's more pathetic - the "teen" in question, or his group of enablers.
I submit to you that he was the bad influence. It is as easy to prove as the other.
We were an awesome generation as teens.
Lol. Mid- 1800’s. I have gone back to about 410 on a family who married into mine in the 1700’s. It was the family of King Clovis, the Riparian. It went further back but I thought that was far enough! I do not know anyone who descended from him.
the chance that this was his first crime is near zero....
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