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Police: Chicago Teen Found Dead in Trash Can Was Burned Alive
Breitbart ^ | 10/18/2016 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 10/20/2016 6:02:15 AM PDT by simpson96

A medical examiner ruled the death of a 15-year-old boy burned alive in a Chicago alley a homicide Monday, The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office reported. Firefighters responding to a garage fire in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago found the body of Demetrius Griffin, 15, burned to death, WPVI reported.

Autopsy results showed Griffin died of thermal injuries due to a fire started in the garbage can, which authorities says means he was alive when the fire started.

Polly Sykes, the victim’s mother, asked the community’s help in finding the killer.

“Community, I need your help. They killed my baby out here in this alley. I need somebody. If you know something, please come forward. They took my life,” Sykes said.

A group of Chicago pastors are offering a $7,500 reward to anyone who can provide information to track down Griffin’s killer, WLS reported.

“He was a typical teenager. My wife was his Sunday school teacher when he was a child. He was baptized in the church,” said Rev. Marshall Hatch, who knew his family for over 20 years.

Griffin’s murder is not a novelty in Chicago, where the city’s homicide total is up to 468 deaths as of September 2016, Breitbart News reported.

Murders in Chicago in 2016 have shot up by 49 percent since the previous year and shooting incidents have shot up by 48 percent.

No one is in custody yet as Griffin’s case remains under investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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1 posted on 10/20/2016 6:02:15 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Chicago savage thugs don’t have to have guns to violently murder.


2 posted on 10/20/2016 6:04:01 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: simpson96

“Griffin’s murder is not a novelty in Chicago, where the city’s homicide total is up to 468 deaths as of September 2016”

Yeah, but the burned alive in a trash can is definitely a new twist, “Chicago-style barbecue”.


3 posted on 10/20/2016 6:04:44 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: simpson96

Dreadful. RIP.


4 posted on 10/20/2016 6:07:47 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: simpson96

Maybe the murderer was one of the toddlers Hillary was talking about.


5 posted on 10/20/2016 6:08:08 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: ameribbean expat

What a terrible way to die.


6 posted on 10/20/2016 6:08:13 AM PDT by phoneman08
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To: Moonman62
New rules will take care of this: all empty trash cans must be off the street 10 minutes after garbage pick up. Anyone leaving an empty can beyond 10 minutes will be subject to having their trash receptacle removed. This regulation is needed because a young person on their way to sunday school was murdered in an empty trash receptacle in horrible fashion.
7 posted on 10/20/2016 6:12:06 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Sasparilla

This is awful though if he had been shot it wouldn’t have even made the news


8 posted on 10/20/2016 6:18:27 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: simpson96
Just focuses on what is really important.


9 posted on 10/20/2016 6:22:55 AM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: simpson96

Its inspirational how president osama bin obama’s big leftist policies has improved, and lifted, the lives of inner city youth.
Is there plans to rename Chicago Obama City?


10 posted on 10/20/2016 6:23:33 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Almost like they are learning from ISIS.


11 posted on 10/20/2016 6:26:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: simpson96

That is simply awful. I’m thinking of some of the usual stupid/funny remarks, and can “lay off” them because pretty much everybody knows what they might be. Prayers for this young man’s family. I do hope and pray that the killers and their assistants are found. They deserve the death penalty, but I doubt the judges in Illinois permit justice to be served.


12 posted on 10/20/2016 6:27:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Mouton

Dang good description of fascism!


13 posted on 10/20/2016 6:31:09 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Gamecock

WHAT!?!
No flies?


14 posted on 10/20/2016 6:31:40 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: simpson96

Quick question:
Which is safer, Chicago or Beirut?


15 posted on 10/20/2016 6:32:28 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: simpson96

The savages who did this should face the same fate. Subhuman animals.

Meanwhile, the Obamabastard and his surrogate Hillary, move on with undermining America.


16 posted on 10/20/2016 6:33:15 AM PDT by ZULU (Where the HELL ARE PAUL RYAN AND MITCH MCCONNELL ?????)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Airbrushed out.


17 posted on 10/20/2016 6:34:24 AM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Chicago by far.
At least your corpse will be recovered.


18 posted on 10/20/2016 6:44:28 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: simpson96

What a horrible way to die. R.I.P.


19 posted on 10/20/2016 6:48:31 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: Cboldt

I may be wrong, but I think the last person executed in Illinois was John Wayne Gacy.

My sister dated his last victim.


20 posted on 10/20/2016 6:52:45 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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