Posted on 09/13/2016 1:01:26 PM PDT by BBell
16-year-old Hillside High School student Jalen Thompson Johnson was shot and killed early yesterday as he donned a mask, claimed to be a police officer, and tried to kick in the door of a Durham, NC apartment. Unfortunately for Johnston, the homeowner was not only also armed, he was a better shot.
A teen was shot to death while trying to force his way into an apartment in Durham Monday morning, police said. The resident of the apartment was injured in the shooting.
Durham police responded to a report of a shooting at 12:42 a.m. in the 800 block of East Woodcroft Parkway at South Terrace at Auburn Apartments.
Police said that Jalen Thompson Johnson, 16, of Durham, was wearing a mask and was “apparently…attempting to force entry into an occupied apartment.”
Johnson and the man who lived in the home appeared to have exchanged gunfire, according to police. The man in the apartment was shot in the leg and transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
You’d almost be convinced by how WNCN covered the story that Johnson was the victim here, instead of a violent criminal.
The teenager left dead after the gunfire, Jalen Johnson, was a student at Hillside High School in Durham. The school’s principal, Dr. William Logan, said Johnson was a “great kid” and called his death a “loss to our school.”
Word about Johnson’s death spread quickly via social media and the school worked quickly to provide a way for students to grieve.
“Counselors from our team are here to assist the students,” Logan said.
ohnson was such a “great kid” that he committed armed robbery and shot a man during a home invasion while pretending to be a police officer.
The only thing Hillside High School lost when Jalen Johnson died was a criminal threat to the student body.
Fortunately the apartment owner did not fall for Johnson’s ruse and was able to defend himself.
And the latest model of cellphone, unless it was a free”Obama Phone”.
I hope not but who knows these days.
You are not imagining that.
indeed I have seen that often also.
Also if you see some Intrigue TV show that involves some type of computer sleuthing then the PHD typing on the computer who figures out everything is almost always a black guy.
Breaking into an occupied dwelling is a whole ‘nother level from breaking and entering, too, or at least it is here.
Out at 1:00 AM good kids are asleep at that time..
Hell my 16 yr olds were never out that late on weekends
You cannot have a great kid without great parents.
That is a good possibility. Robbing drug dealers is never a good idea.
great posts and i can see the military changes many men for the better.
Three Italian Uncles and a Window changed me for the better :)
I was the same type of kid. My oldest son went through something similar and now my youngest (turned 16 today) is causing us great grief. We grew out of it and I hope my youngest does as well as today is a completely different world.
There is a difference between breaking into vending machines and exchanging gunfire with someone in their home while trying to kick in their door.
They are after your goats, or free range chick’ns or sumthin’...
No loss to the world.
LOL!
Defenistration tends to focus your attention to the proper path.
That’s for sure.
That would do it. How many stories were you up when they showed you the way down?
Had to look it up, lol.
Yeah, it hurts one’s head!!
In all fairness, it was a push or punch that knocked me into the window and shattered it. Not like they hit my head against the window.
lol, semantics.
Beat the hell out of a future 15 to 20.
The problem we have now is that the military would not take your brother. I went in the Marines and had a juvenile record. The Marines would never take me in this day and age.
NCIS NOLA....
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