Posted on 04/18/2016 2:09:14 PM PDT by HomerBohn
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Just hours after attending celebrity basketball game in Zaevion Dobson’s honor, family says Dobson’s cousin was shot.
Knoxville Police Department said the shooting happened at around 9:46 p.m. at Danny Mayfield Park, located at 700 College Street. They said Jajuan Latham, 12, died after he was shot in the head.
A gathering of a large number of people was being held in the park when shooting erupted between the party attenders and occupants of two vehicles that were driving by the park, according to Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch. He said Jajuan Latham was shot while sitting in the back seat of his father’s parked vehicle. They are asking anyone with information on the shooting to call Knoxville Police Department’s crime information line at (865) 215-7212.
“We were at the celebrity basketball game and he had a good time and he was just more exciting to Bobby Maze than I was,” said Hubert Latham, Jajuan Latham’s father. “We went and had a good time and he was a good kid and they took my son’s life.”
Hubert Latham said they had pulled up to a park to pick up his son’s friends when he heard gunshots.
“The first thing I do is reach my son and I just realize he’s not moving, so I’m like, ‘What’s going on, is he asleep?,'” said Hubert Latham. “When I picked him up, that’s when I realized, what I seen, blood.”
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The father says he held his son’s stomach, rushing him to University of Tennessee Medical Center. Police said the 12-year-old died just after 11:00 p.m. from his injuries.
“I knew he was going to pull through. It broke my heart 30 minutes later when they came out and told me my son was dead. The only thing that came to my mind was, who did this?,” said Hubert Latham.
Saturday’s Bobby Maze Celebrity Basketball Game was Saturday night to encourage Knoxville youth to stop the violence. Four years ago he lost one of his close cousins to gun violence. After hearing of Zaevion’s story, he knew he had to help out. Jajuan Latham and Zaevion Dobson’s mother, Zenobia, were in attendance.
“I was devasted,” said former University of Tennessee basketball player Bobby Maze. “Just knowing that Jajuan was one of the first kids at the gym to come in to see this celebrity game and he was excited about this event and to hear about hours later or after the game he was killed, it really hurt me. The whole purpose of doing this event was to shed some light on some of the things that has been happening in this community… Zaevion and it’s just been a lot of gun violence…. so I wanted to bring something positive to this area and to find out a kid that participated and came out to support this event was killed after and 12-years-old. You know, it’s just sad.”
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Zaevion Dobson, a Fulton High School football player, died shielding three girls from bullets. Knoxville police believe the chain of events started on December 17 when Brandon Perry was involved in a shooting that served as a catalyst for three other shootings.
Police believe the incident prompted a shooting at Brandon Perry’s home where his mother was shot. After learning his mother was shot, investigators said Brandon and several additional suspects drove to Badgett Drive where they shot into a crowd. Perry was later shot and killed.
How was that Jajuan pronounced?
‘Hahwan? Jayjewwon?
“Obama will put a stop to it.”
I wonder if he will put his world-renowned “laser focus” on it. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Not stupid...this is an example of denial. What parent wants to believe their child is dead?
You are spot on
Is THIS is the biggest sin of abortion? The MILLIONS and MILLIONS of more welfare dependent, violent humanoids and THOUSANDS of random, gang related shootings America has missed out on enjoying. Oh, woe be to us!
Without RoeVWade, we would ALL be living in a combination of Detroit/South Africa by now, with NO hope of ever fixing it.
I say KEEP FUNDING Planned Parenthood! Until you wean people off of government schools and benefits, and until you change their culture, by force, if you must, it would be insane to let the population of shitizens who,literally, can not wear pants and hats correctly.
Then you can continue the fight for ending abortions.
White peoples fault......
I know we’re not supposed to say what you just did.
We all know it’s sad but true.
Bill Bennett alluded to it a few years ago and was creamed.
When does productive, law abiding, America give up on a disastrous social experiment and a permanently dysfunctional, culture and populace ruined by leftism?
93 points in Scrabble
Pronunciation — I’m guessing Ja-wahn.
Cute little guy in his Upwards basketball team uniform ... Christian organization ...
Despite their goofy names, this is a heart-breaker.
RIP.
What if she’d seen two dogs humping?
As long as breeding welfare bastards is economically rewarded, don’t expect it to stop any time soon. This is a “career” for unemployable people, who see the end of high school as the point where they have to start “working” (breeding).
The left is OK with this because just as in non-black areas, the low birthrate would cause whole school districts to close up shop and many related poverty profiteers (social workers, even law enforcement) would have to seek unemployment in the real world.
In her neighborhood she’d probably see two sub-humans copulating.
We have to continually refer to the article in order to make certain that the victim was male.
There has to be a solution other than funding abortion mills to wean the deadbeat whores from the welfare rolls.
What if that great asshat, Lyndon Bird Johnson had never began the ‘Great Society’?
What if welfare were terminated and only the VERY destitute would receive any aid from the STATE? To handle those damaged youth produced by a crack whore were rounded up by the STATES and raised in an orphanage. No more Foster Care bullsh-t!
Another thing that would improve society is to clamp down on political generals who push for women in combat roles, re-establish the draft and pound some discipline into the heads of these youths headed for the scrap pile? Additionally the homosexuals and lesbians could form their own armies.
Reestablish hard labor for prisoners and jail those pimps who father all these little bastards.
Make the penalty for selling or using drugs death! That would resolve our drug problem quickly.
“... It broke my heart 30 minutes later when they came out and told me my son was dead....”
Heartbreaking.
Actually, a Zaevion is a 15 year old kid who died protecting three girls from a drive by shooting. He jumped on top of them to keep them from running and probably getting shot and used himself as a shield. Jesus said "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." But, go ahead and make fun of his name.
Winner!
Sub-surface particle now.
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