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Prosecutor: Teens killed man in ‘knock ‘em down’ game
suntimes.com ^ | July 16, 2012 | KIM JANSSEN

Posted on 07/23/2012 6:32:09 PM PDT by ransomnote

Three teenagers accused of killing a 62-year-old father-of-12 in West Rogers Park were playing a game called “Pick ‘em out and knock ‘em down” when they videotaped themselves punching him in the face, prosecutors say. Ads by Google

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Malik Jones, 16, Nicholas Ayala, 17, and Anthony Malcolm, 18, were caught after the video of Jones fatally punching Delfino Mora was posted on Jones’ Facebook page, according to authorities.

The three were playing a “game where the offender picks an innocent victim and knocks him out by striking him and likely robbing him as well,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Terry Clancy told Judge Israel Desierto in court Monday.

Similar attacks — some resulting in death — have previously been reported in Missouri, New Jersey and Decatur. The game also goes by the name “Knockout King,” and experts say it is a grab for attention.

Prosecutors did not mention the game Sunday when Jones appeared before a judge on first degree murder charges in the most recent case, but gave a more detailed account of the crime when his two alleged accomplices made their first appearance in court Monday.

They allege Jones struck the fatal blow and owns the cell phone used to film Mora’s murder in the alley on the 6300 block of North Artesian early July 10.

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


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KEYWORDS: crime; killing; thugs
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"The three were playing a “game where the offender picks an innocent victim and knocks him out by striking him and likely robbing him as well,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Terry Clancy told Judge Israel Desierto in court Monday."

1 posted on 07/23/2012 6:32:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Obama’s sons.


2 posted on 07/23/2012 6:33:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: admin; moder_ator

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3 posted on 07/23/2012 6:34:12 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Pictures of the perps?


4 posted on 07/23/2012 6:34:40 PM PDT by Mister Anderson (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the Idiots)
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To: Mister Anderson

Obviously not a white-on-black crime, because if it were, it would have bumped “Joker Man” from the top of the headlines.


5 posted on 07/23/2012 6:36:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Secret Agent Man

Questions:

1) Is this a case of ‘millions of rats invade Chicago’ journalism?

2) If this IS a new phenomenon in Chicago, why? Did Rahm change something? Did Cook County/ IL state laws change?

3) Where did the name Malik come from? It’s about the 5th time in a year I’ve heard this new name.


6 posted on 07/23/2012 6:36:56 PM PDT by madameguinot (Our Father's God to Thee, Author of Liberty)
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To: ransomnote

Gun control is really working in Chicago. Violent criminals with robbery in mind can kill people without worrying about being shot.

We will defend ourselves.


7 posted on 07/23/2012 6:39:46 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: ransomnote

Capital punishment for these young thugs is not cruel and/or unusual.


8 posted on 07/23/2012 6:41:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: ransomnote
Too bad the victim didn't play the Zimmerman game with the perps.

Prayers up for the victim's family.

/johnny

9 posted on 07/23/2012 6:42:44 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Secret Agent Man

10 posted on 07/23/2012 6:43:17 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("You didn't build that!")
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"Pictures of the perps?"

Two of their photos are at the link.

11 posted on 07/23/2012 6:48:08 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ransomnote
some animals maim or kill for sport like this... Trayvon's game. Exactly why one needs to carry. A heel-of-the-hand-blow dead straight on the nose can easily break the bone and drive it into the brain. These are not children.
12 posted on 07/23/2012 6:54:46 PM PDT by imardmd1 ("Praise Him from Whom all Blessings flow ..." Psalms 100 and 134)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Leave these boys alone. They had enough trouble growin’ up in the ‘hood, now the whitey justice system is forcing an inhumane and racist profiling on these just because they are acting like boys in the ‘hood. They were good boys who need love, not criminal punishment.


13 posted on 07/23/2012 6:57:19 PM PDT by sagar
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To: dfwgator

Odd, no pictures of Malik Jones. Although he’s identified in other newspapers that picked up this story as the most violent of the 3.

Malik...Muslim and Hindu (mainly Panjab): status name from a title meaning ‘lord’, ‘ruler’, ‘chief’, from Arabic malik ‘king’. In the subcontinent this is often found as a title for the headman of a village. In Islam Al-Malik ‘the King’ is one of the attributes of Allah, regarded as ‘the king of mankind’ (Qur’an 114:2).


14 posted on 07/23/2012 6:59:04 PM PDT by Mister Anderson (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the Idiots)
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Pictures of the perps?

Obama's sons, I would suspect.

15 posted on 07/23/2012 7:06:43 PM PDT by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: ransomnote

Holder’s people.


16 posted on 07/23/2012 7:12:03 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: sagar

They were likely going for their G.E.D...planning on enrolling in the local community college....what a shame.

(sarc/).


17 posted on 07/23/2012 7:14:27 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: JRandomFreeper
If he had, he probably in the same situation that Zimmerman is in now.

The message that the lynch Zimmerman mob, both on and off this forum, wanted sent and was sent is that if one is perceived to be white, one does not defend themselves from being mauled or slain by one of Holder's people or obama's sons without suffering severe negative repercussions.

18 posted on 07/23/2012 7:17:48 PM PDT by sport
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To: ransomnote

These cowards always run in packs and sucker punch victims. The victims are usually elderly too.


19 posted on 07/23/2012 7:20:56 PM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once a land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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Obviously not a white-on-black crime, because if it were, it would have bumped “Joker Man” from the top of the headlines.

2/3 black on black, 1/3 Hispanic on black. 3/3 a-hole thugs on guy trying to scrounge some extra money for his family crime. Of course, I'm guessing that the 16-year-old "Malik Jones" is black.
20 posted on 07/23/2012 7:23:30 PM PDT by aruanan
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