'He didn't deserve this:' Friends remember victim in Myrtle Beach Cook Out shooting

www.wpde.com ^ | 9-12-20 | MissEdie

[MissEdie]

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — Friends of Albert "AJ" Soles of Tabor City are in shock after Myrtle Beach police say he was shot and killed outside of the Cook Out on North Kings Highway early Friday morning.

"He didn't deserve any of this," Ashley Azzarella said. She said Soles was her best friend.

"I feel like he's the best person I've ever met in my life and been friends with. I'm so lucky to have known him," she said. "He's a huge teddy bear and he would never hurt anybody."

Friends said the death is especially heartbreaking because he had such big plans for his future. He was just 24 years old.

"He wanted to open up his own business and become a welder," James Dunn said.

They said he didn't deserve to die the way he did.

"Shouldn't happen in a public place, shouldn't happen in front of everybody," Alex Giffin said.

Police arrested Niko Juwan Williams in connection to the shooting, which left Soles dead and another person injured.

At Williams' bond hearing on Friday afternoon, police said a verbal altercation led to a physical altercation in the parking lot early Friday morning.

[MissEdie]

They said the victims tried to intervene in the altercation and were then shot. Police said the victims were completely unarmed and they believe they posed no threat to the defendant.

And no, you do not need to look at the mug shot. Another case of B-on-W violence you will not hear about in the lame stream media. The victim was trying to help diffuse a situation and paid the ultimate sacrifice for trying to help.

[Drew68]

When is this country going to address the serious anger management problem within the black community that so often results in homicidal violence? Black males commit murder at a rate of eight times that of all other race and ethnic groups in America, murders often committed on impulse for no understandable reason at all.

Black criminality is the greatest obstacle to better race relations in this country. Blacks need to stop killing people and this needs to be discussed.

It's not always "muh racizm."

[subterfuge]

Stereotypical black murderer. Couldn’t control it’s emotions. Just gotta keep it real no matter the consequences. Go look at the Dave Chappelle skits.

[joma89]

Always conceal carry. Always.

JoMa

[Celerity]

Is it bad that I could tell his racial identity by the clear English spoken by those who were interviewed?

[upchuck]

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[Jan_Sobieski]

Formula for Disaster...

1. Mother has child outside of wedlock

2. Government money incentivizes this behavior repeatedly producing dozens of children like this

3. Child grows up without father

4. Child finds fathers in Gangs
5. Child saturated in rap music gangsta culture From womb

6. Grown up child act out Gangsta Rap Fantasies daily on our streets!

Why didn’t the mother keep her pants on? Why didn’t she Wait on marriage for Mr Right? Why didn’t she Fear God and eschew evil? Why did the Government incentivize this behavior? Why did black pastors blame the child’s problems on Racism, instead of sin?

[wbarmy]

Better yet, don’t get involved when racial groups are arguing. I know the victim wanted to be a peacemaker and I know it was a Christian act, but some groups don’t want peace, they want to see the world burn.