Mom: 15-year-old son killed in North Chicago

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 18, 2014 | Lisa Black

[ConservativeStatement]

A North Chicago family is mourning the death of a 15-year-old boy who died early Thursday after being shot in the head and left in an alley, said the victim’s mother, Roxanne Beech.

Travon Beech was an eighth-grader at Neal Math & Science Academy who had enjoyed basketball and football until recently, when he started staying out late and getting in trouble, she said.

[ConservativeStatement]

I wonder if Barry will talk about Travon who was one of seven children but "got sucked down last year in the streets."

[wideawake]

A 15 year old eighth grader.

[ClearCase_guy]

“No one is talking right now but somebody knows something,” Beech said.

Nice culture ya got there. Lots of violence. Not many fathers on the scene.

I suppose it's the White Guy's fault.

[UCANSEE2]

” when he started staying out late and getting in trouble, she said.”

And WHO, Roxanne, is responsible for that ?

[ExCTCitizen]

Travon? What is it with these names blacks are giving their kids?

[ExCTCitizen]

When I was 15 I was in 11th.

[latina4dubya]

A 15 year old eighth grader.

it is not that unusual for a boy to be kept back in an early grade, like first grade... or even kindergarten...

[ExCTCitizen]

I guess the tea party cancelled midnight basketball.

[boycott]

I just hope the plague of liberalism doesn’t spread into my neighborhood. Nothing good comes of it.

[Veto!]

Lot of boys named Travon showing up on the news, and not in a good way..

Yesterday, we had a new checker in our market named Trayvonne, but his badge said “Tray.” Could not have been a nicer, brighter, young man.

[PLMerite]

At 15 you think you know everything. Finding out you’re wrong can sometimes be the last thing you learn.

[latina4dubya]

Travon? What is it with these names blacks are giving their kids?

i know this is racial, but i am going to say it anyway--black parents, never name your son Travon, Treyvon, Trayvon... and white parents, never name your son Hunter...

[Ezekiel]

Travon? What is it with these names blacks are giving their kids?

This one [and its variant spellings] is a name that seems to attract bullets.

[driftless2]

"hunter"

While watching the Wisconsin high school basketball tournaments last month, I had a good laugh over the name of one of the boys.....Trapper. Yes, Trapper was his first name. Now I suppose there's going to be some enraged Freepers roasting me. "Yeah, I named my kid Trapper...and his brothers are Hunter, Skinner, Fisher, and Poacher. So what?"

[henkster]

“Staying out late and getting in trouble.”

Had he not been killed, it’s likely that sooner or later he would have killed someone else. Bags of dirty water breaking each other.

[backwoods-engineer]

Just turning his life around?

He was a good boy, didn't want to hurt nobody?

He loved his mother?

We've heard it before, lady.

[ExCTCitizen]

True.

It must be African for 'Dumb black getting in trouble and having no daddy in the picture then getting killed by a bullet.'

[metalurgist]

shot in the head and left in an alley,

Would she be happier if he was knifed in the guts and left in a parking lot?

Who ever shot him saved society a whole pile of money and probably saved the lives of future victims of mommas little angel.

[latina4dubya]

"Yeah, I named my kid Trapper...and his brothers are Hunter, Skinner, Fisher, and Poacher. So what?"

that is hahahahalarious!

[Chode]

feh...