The story does not make sense, it wouldn’t make sense regardless of the races of the parties involved or the roles they played.
How many 14 year olds do you know who don’t have a cell phone with GPS, mapping and directions from your current location? How many teenage boys would attempt to walk to school if they’d missed the bus? Where was his mother or his father, do they both work? Why didn’t he call them, regardless? He’s been going to this school since August of last year, but doesn’t know how to get there?
Sorry, I smell BS and race shaming doesn’t make it smell any better, “knock knock burglaries” are a thing in large cities now, I posted a link to a Google search showing just how many hits that term gets.
The story says that his mother took his cell phone and his father is active duty deployed in the Middle East. But I, too, wonder how it was that he thought some random neighbor could tell him where his school was if he himself didn’t know it... and by April, if he’s been going there since August, he should know where the school is. If it’s so far away that he has to ride a bus, I doubt it’s walkable. I, too, think he was Trayvoning around the neighborhood looking for empty houses.