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Career criminal charged in Jonylah Watkins slaying
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 27, 2013 | Adam Sege, Jeremy Gorner and Dawn Rhodes

Posted on 05/27/2013 8:52:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Six-month-old Jonylah Watkins was fatally shot over a stolen video game console, Chicago police said Monday as they announced an arrest in a slaying that has come to symbolize the city's deadly gun culture.

Authorities charged Koman Willis, 33, with killing the infant and shooting her father while they sat parked in a minivan in the Woodlawn neighborhood on March 11. A bullet entered Jonylah's right shoulder and traveled down through her left thigh. She died the following day. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, survived multiple gunshot wounds.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: videogame; watkins; willis
How about the "gang" culture?
1 posted on 05/27/2013 8:52:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
thank you... feral urban criminal culture is more like it
2 posted on 05/27/2013 8:58:01 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Rest in peace, Jonylah


3 posted on 05/27/2013 9:00:43 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Chode

One would hope that the wounded father might turn from his evil ways after the death of his daughter. Perhaps find Christ and start a youth drop-in center to try to combat the gang culture.

I imagine though, once he has healed and is out of prison for the theft, he’ll be going after the snitch.


4 posted on 05/27/2013 9:06:47 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: 21twelve
no doubt...
5 posted on 05/27/2013 9:10:45 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 21twelve

I bet he’s dead within a year, and he would deserve it.


6 posted on 05/27/2013 9:13:36 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Altariel

Amen. Poor little thing. God Bless her.


7 posted on 05/27/2013 9:35:09 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: ConservativeStatement
Chicago police said Monday as they announced an arrest in a slaying that has come to symbolize the city's deadly gun thug culture.
8 posted on 05/27/2013 9:56:20 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama's Enemies List - Yes, you are a crook.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

thanks for fixing. you read my mind.


9 posted on 05/28/2013 2:16:23 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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