Posted on 02/07/2009 1:28:04 PM PST by Drew68
Omaha police and the Douglas County Attorney's Office are investigating whether the shooting deaths of two people Tuesday night were justified.
A 16-year-old boy, who told his family that he was going to pick up a mouth grill he had ordered with Christmas money, was one of the two killed inside an Omaha business, relatives said Wednesday. Marcel Davis, a Northwest High School sophomore, had planned to wear his new grill at a funeral Wednesday, a great-aunt said.
Instead, the family is mourning his death after police confirmed what relatives already knew: Davis was shot to death at the Midwest Grillz & Jewelry store just before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Also killed at the store was William J. "Willie" Wakefield, 29, police said. Davis' great-aunt said her nephew had gone to Midwest Grillz with an older friend. It wasn't immediately clear whether Wakefield was that friend.
A third person was treated at Creighton University Medical Center for a gunshot wound suffered at Midwest Grillz, 6209 Ames Ave. Brandon Boyce, 22, of Omaha walked into the hospital about a half-hour after the shooting.
Police would not say what connection any of the three might have had to the shooting. Officers also would not give details about what happened inside the store. Police said they were seeking no suspects and had made no arrests.
When asked, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine confirmed that the shooter was Andre McKesson, 24, owner of Midwest Grillz. His sister, Precious McKesson, said he is not a violent person and was taking the shooting "very hard."
Kleine said the investigation centers on whether the shootings were justified. He said more information probably would be made public today.
"At this time the (McKesson) family would like to send our thoughts and prayers to all families involved in this tragedy," Precious McKesson said in a statement.
She said that in the days before the shooting, the people who were shot had been asking others at a neighboring business where McKesson was and what kind of car he drove. She said her brother's phone had been turned off by the phone company. After it was turned back on Tuesday night, she said, he called customers, including the shooting victims, to say he had their grills.
Davis' great-aunt, Marilyn Kyles, one of several family members who gathered in the cold at 63rd Street and Ames Avenue on Wednesday, said her nephew and his friend had ordered metal grills to adorn their teeth.
Davis had called several times to see if his was ready, and each time was told no, his great-aunt said. Tuesday, the owner of Midwest Grillz called repeatedly to tell Davis to come by for his grill. She estimated that her nephew received a final call about 8:30 p.m.
Her nephew, she said, planned to wear it to the funeral of a man who was killed while committing a robbery a couple of weeks ago.
Kyles said her nephew would not have been part of a robbery. He had been in trouble, she said, but he didn't rob.
In November 2007, Davis was shot in the leg by an Omaha police officer. Davis had run when police stopped a car in which he was riding. The officer said he fired after the youth turned and pointed a gun at him. A loaded 9 mm handgun, which turned out to have been stolen, was found at the scene.
Davis initially was charged as an adult with assault on a police officer, use of a firearm to commit a felony and possession of a stolen firearm. The case later was moved to juvenile court.
After his release from Douglas County Youth Detention Center, Davis enrolled at Northwest High, according to Omaha Public Schools records. He had been a student there for only a few weeks.
Wakefield was in and out of the criminal justice system dozens of times on an array of charges, ranging from traffic infractions to assault and robbery, according to court records.
Andre McKesson has been arrested several times, accused of misdemeanors — from marijuana possession to driving under suspension.
Tuesday, Omaha police responded at 10:25 p.m. to reports of a robbery and shooting. They found two people who had been hit by gunfire, said Officer Michael Pecha, a police spokesman. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Kleine said at least two guns were recovered from the scene.
They're smarter than that. I'll bet if you read the receipt, it says, "Charges to 'Da Grillz dat thrill da Gurlz Boutique' will appear on your statement as 'Wellington Chadworth's Yacht Emporium.'" You've obviously never joined a porno site or you would know this type of misdirection is standard. Or so I've been told.
I live in North Florida. A few years ago, there was a shooting at a place called, I kid you not, Booby’s Bar. It was a rural black bar. There were two hundred people in Booby’s, a place about the size of a two-car garage, and nobody saw nuttin’ nohow.
ping
There are 20-round fixed magazines for the SKS too, as well as AK-looking 20 and 30-round "detachable" mags (in quotes because it's usually easier to leave 'em locked in place and load from the top with stripper clips). Awkward looking things, but effective.
Fo' shole.
Isn't it funny how people who engage in criminal behavior tend to embrace fashion that makes getting away with criminal behavior more difficult?
Somewhere there's a video of a typical thug running from the cops. He goes to climb a fence and, you guessed it, his baggy pants fall to his ankles and he's easily apprehended. I never laughed harder.
Now we have the outlandish clothing, "bling" grillz, haircuts, etc., all making it difficult for today's criminals to successfully blend in.
lol - kinda like regifting ?
I have gotten pretty dang cynical when a 16 year old is dead and I just don’t give a damn. Before this article I didn’t know what a grill is ... after this article, again I just don’t give a damn.
Same here. I've resigned myself to the fact that "kids" like Marcel, picking up "grillz" to wear to his stick-up buddy's funeral, probably aren't going to cure cancer. That's just the way it is. It's sad to say that the world is a little better place now that Marcel and Willie have met their fate in a bling store shoot-out.
I want a grill just like the grill they sell at Midwest Grillz
I want a grill just like the grill that gives the ho's big thrillz
A good new-fangled grill with a skull on each
One that screws up my attempts at speech
I want a grill just like the grill that gets the brothers killz
Leni
"My baybee din't do nuttin!" in a culture where getting shot by the cops at 14 years-old after pointing a stolen gun at them is just another right of passage, no more mischievous than throwing snowballs at passing cars.
What a bunch of shallow, materialistic lost souls.
How do you have these kinds of thugs in freaking Omaha NEBRASKA. I thought it was all corn fields and white bread. Sounds like it has become the Bronx.
Blacks migrated to Omaha and other "cowboy" cities such as Tulsa, Wichita and Denver in the early 1900s to work in the stockyards. Nowadays, these cities have significant black neighborhoods and, sadly, the crime rates that tend to accompany them.
Did this young person have no adult male relatives in his life?
Made it to here, then stopped, ....just stopped..
LOL! Yep! When ya' gotta keep it real at yo' homeez funeral, ya' need som fly grillz!
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