Posted on 08/15/2019 8:41:24 PM PDT by simpson96
A chaotic chain of events that began early Tuesday, when Illinois police say six teenagers from Chicago drove to a northern suburb and attempted to steal a car, has ended in murder charges against five of them.
The Audi's owner, a 75-year-old man, told police he had watched a group of males trying to break into his vehicle outside of his Lake County home before 1:15 a.m. He grabbed his gun and as he stood outside on his porch, he said, they approached him.
The car owner saw one of the males holding an object and "feared for his life," firing his gun and striking one of the males, who turned out to be 14, in the head, according to police.
The group fled in another vehicle, a Lexus SUV that police say had been stolen two days earlier, and flagged down officers in a nearby town to get the 14-year-old first aid.
The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said.
The other teens tried to escape in the Lexus, and led police on a high-speed chase over 15 minutes from Lake County to Chicago, but ran out of gas and were arrested, authorities said.
After reviewing the case, the Lake County State's Attorney's Office announced charges this week against the five teens — of first-degree murder. Although three of the suspects are 17 and a fourth is 16, they are being charged as adults. A fifth suspect was identified as Diamond Davis, 18.
While none of them pulled the trigger in the death of the 14-year-old, later identified as Jaquan Swopes, prosecutors decided to use a state felony murder law to pin it on them.
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Now there’s a thought... How does a group of thugs choose which car to steal? Looks? Price? Maybe not - maybe the stolen car they were driving was almost out of gas, and the old man’s car was convenient! Disposable vehicles.
To the Citizen: Good shooting. Civilization thanks you.
I’m absolutely exasperated by the lack of testosterone in this country. You better believe I’ll confront someone if I need to. I may call 911, but Mr. Mossberg and I will step out on the porch before the cops arrive.
I truly hate that a teenager was killed, but the one to prevent that is not the old man who was threatened with a knife - It’s his father and mother. The libs have done everything they can to take over raising our kids, including splitting up families, and telling us we should not shame people for doing wrong things. I believe a little shame in this youngster’s life might mean he were alive today.
Seasoned thieves steal only vehicles with full tanks.
Wednesday’s cop-shooter in Philly had a six-time felony record for illegal gun possession. He never should have been let out after the first time: Today’s Leftist cries for gun “control” are a prime example of Govt going after the innocent because they never punish the guilty. SORRY! No WAY, Jose!
How many of these shootings
do you think were committed by
legal law abiding gun owners with
legally obtained guns?
Communism has become a mindless automaton
running the same program long after
the programmer has died, even though
it no longer makes sense to anyone.
It's way past the time to PULL THE PLUG.
7
on Twitter they’re crying about how unfair this is.
Screw them
Agreed.
Defending murderous 14-year-olds, terrorizing an old man.
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