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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Not that upset a young car thief is deceased.
He was shot at and shot back.
Do not see a problem.
No “Middle School” where I grew up...elementary school was K thru 8th, then high school. Still that way now....(rural Calif.).
Vehicles represent life loss acquiring them... sometimes payments of seven years.... take it at the risk of your life.
In before the “back the blue” boot lickers.
The automobile has largely replaced the horse.
What used to happen to horse thieves?
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