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.
I remember being 16 running around committing all those violent armed robberies. What fun! Oh, to be young again!
Talbott says her son simply fell in with the wrong crowd.
No, mamma. You're son was the wrong crowd.
The second suspect who was with Haggins Jr. fled and is still on the loose.
Naturally, nobody's snitchin'.
Sigh... Another "child" victim of gun violence.
Where’d the Skittles go?
LOL, the North Face, those must be backpacking tattoos.
did he have a budding rap career?
Sometimes that is how many it takes.
Lot of tats for a minor....
3 didn’t do the trick.
Armed robbery is not one of them.
” He was just a child trying to be a teenage,” said Haggins’ mother Candace Talbott. ‘
This really made me laugh. She must be an idiot.
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What a tragedy.
He WASN’T turning his life around!
He WASN’T an aspiring rap star!
What’s wrong with kids these days?
This in a nutshell, which is where it belongs, is the Blackamoor mentality summed up. It's not our fault if there are bad consequences to our actions. Thugging don't mean nothing. Just YMB’s (young black men) being boys. The entire culture of non-responsibility is summed up in these stupid banalities.
Not really. Crossing the street? Riding public buses? Going to public school. All dangerous....
“A 16-year-old kid was shot four times.”
I thought a 16 year old criminal was shot dead?
It is truly a shame to lose a 16 year old this way. In a perfect world he would have had good role models and strived to be more than a successful armed robber. And I’m not being facetious.
Are we supposed to think that armed robbery is just a normal thing for a kid to do?
“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 …So what was Ms. Talbott’s act of “trying to be a teenage (sic)”? Having an illegitimate child and raising him in a fatherless household?
“I’m pretty sure we’ve all done something that could cost us our lives at the age of 16.”
Yeah! In my Mom’s ‘63 Riviera, that had every engine option my Dad could buy! I shouldn’t have been allowed to drive that car! But my Dad figured the bucket seats would put a damp on serious sexual activity. Wrong!
Poor guy. Cut down in the prime of his life while innocently robbing a store.
Just think of all the children he will never father with several women he will never marry. All the drugs he'll remove from the streets by smoking them or inhaling them up his nose. He'll never know the satisfaction that comes with climbing the corporate ladder as a career criminal.
What a waste.
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