Posted on 07/02/2020 3:02:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by CHOP security in Seattle was homeless and had just carjacked a Jeep when he was told by a friend to drive to the cop-free zone 'for safety', DailyMail.com can reveal.
Antonio Mays Jr died in a hail of bullets in the early hours of Monday morning and his passenger, a 14-year-old, was critically injured after armed security guards fired on their white Jeep Cherokee, which crashed into the barriers of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) security zone.
Ciara Walker, 25, described the two boys as her 'street brothers' and said Mays Jr and the other teen had been living with her and her husband in a tent at the nearby Cal Anderson Park, located just outside the CHOP zone.
She told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview the boys had stolen the Jeep hours before and were being followed and shot at, prompting her to tell the teens to go into the zone for safety.
Walker revealed she was on the phone with the boys when they were shot, saying: 'The last thing I heard was a crash and pop pop pop, I’m not sure who said what, but one of them said, '''Ah s**t I’m hit, I don’t wanna die.'' Then the phone went dead.'
Walker said she had only known both boys for the past few months, saying: 'They were runaways, we don’t know much about them. They weren’t gang members even though they hung out with Blood gang members.’
Walker said the two teens had carjacked and beat up the owner of the white Jeep Cherokee just hours before the fatal shooting. ‘They held someone up at knifepoint to carjack the Jeep,' she said.
The teens were joy riding around doing ‘stupid s**t’ but then CHOP security started to
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Surely they wouldn’t place these innocent young children into the “awful pipeline to prison”just because of a few youthful felony indescretions?
It was his own fault for stealing a white vehicle.
If it was black, he would be a hero today.
2 criminals shot by other criminals. there is no honor among thieves
Why weep for a dead criminal, regardless of his age?
Why was the 19 year old there, except to participate in behavior likely to endanger his well-being? Maybe waiting to jump in when the looting started? In the adult photo I saw he was hoodied, tattooed and projected attitude, not like an innocent bystander.
I feel for his father, but for him, not so much.
Criminals killing criminals is generally a GOOD thing, deserved or not.
“murdered these kids”
“Kids?”
Not the way I would describe those violent thugs.
The Bible says The Way of the transgressor is hard. If his buddy had not shot him, some Policeman down the road would have had to or he would have shot said Policeman.woman. I understand that the public sides with the criminal with the exception of the guy who has felt the edge of the knife blade at his throat or looked down the muzzle of the gun. The guy’s blood is on his own head. Cry all you please for him. My sympathy is for the law abiding Citizens and the innocent victims of these criminals.
Well stated.
Good on you.
Plenty of that going on in Somalia. In this country, we value law and order. Criminals get arrested, tried, and punished. They don’t take over American cities and enforce mob justice.
I can’t believe anyone here is a fan of CHOP and anarchy.
Make no mistake. I am not crying for him. My concern is for the good, honest, taxpaying, law abiding citizens who have had their liberty, security and sovereignty diminished, ignored and nullified.
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