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Cops: Owner Tracks Stolen Car With App, Kills Boy in Shootout
Newser ^ | Feb 12, 2023 | John Johnson

Posted on 02/12/2023 12:32:07 PM PST by Silentgypsy

The owner of a stolen car in Denver successfully tracked down his vehicle with an app but wound up killing a 12-year-old boy in an ensuing shootout, say police. The unidentified driver approached his vehicle once he found it and was "involved in an exchange of gunfire" with its occupants, according to a police statement. The boy later identified as Elias Armstrong then drove the vehicle about two blocks, where police found him inside it with a gunshot wound, reports the New York Times. Elias was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: autotheft; boy; denver; shootout
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To: Silentgypsy

Not that upset a young car thief is deceased.


41 posted on 02/12/2023 3:50:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman
Why?

He was shot at and shot back.

Do not see a problem.

42 posted on 02/12/2023 3:55:21 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

No “Middle School” where I grew up...elementary school was K thru 8th, then high school. Still that way now....(rural Calif.).


43 posted on 02/12/2023 4:05:39 PM PST by Drago
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To: 4Runner

Vehicles represent life loss acquiring them... sometimes payments of seven years.... take it at the risk of your life.


44 posted on 02/12/2023 4:09:31 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Silentgypsy

In before the “back the blue” boot lickers.


45 posted on 02/12/2023 5:46:55 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: teeman8r

The automobile has largely replaced the horse.

What used to happen to horse thieves?


46 posted on 02/12/2023 5:51:40 PM PST by Paladin2
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