Posted on 05/03/2012 7:30:57 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
I'm sure the couple in the car felt him holding them up too ... albeit briefly.
Skin tone of shooter not described. I hope this does not turn into another Trayvon Martin case.
With a name like Ja'Quares, the kid was marked for thugdom from the start.
And the mom -- yelling from the house does not constitute watching your children and knowing where they are going and with whom. If you don't know the people that just rolled up to take your *13* year old kid somewhere, get your ass out to the curb and find out. Sheesh.
Older gang bangers use younger gang bangers all the time to commit crimes.
“”I don’t want it put out like he was a bad person or a mean person, because he wasn’t,” Latonya Walker, 38, said Tuesday. “This is not him, not who he was. “
“Wearing a gray shirt around his face like a bandana and armed with a loaded and cocked pistol, authorities said Ja’Quares approached a black Lexus SUV with a couple inside and ordered the driver out. “
Okie dokie
Guess what, sunshine? Accosting people, threatening them with a deadly weapon, demanding that they surrender their property ... these things qualify your precious angel as a bad person and a mean person.
Time to face reality.
Pls confirm?
“Skin tone of shooter not described”
Is there really any doubt?
And yeah, with a name like “Ja’Quares” she pretty much set his life path for him.
I just hope the Lexus driver makes out OK.
I just can't imagine why they didn't use this photo?
Felony murder... if they can figure out who the accomplices were. They aren’t going to be volunteering.
Probably right.
Gang initiation.
That’s probably true. Most states have some kind of felony murder statute which allows for a murder charge if a death is caused in the commission of a felony, even if it was one of the criminals who dies.
Sounds like gang initiation.
Section 13A-6-2
Murder.
(a) A person commits the crime of murder if he or she does any of the following:
(1) With intent to cause the death of another person, he or she causes the death of that person or of another person.
(2) Under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he or she recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to a person other than himself or herself, and thereby causes the death of another person.
(3) He or she commits or attempts to commit arson in the first degree, burglary in the first or second degree, escape in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree, rape in the first degree, robbery in any degree, sodomy in the first degree, any other felony clearly dangerous to human life and, in the course of and in furtherance of the crime that he or she is committing or attempting to commit, or in immediate flight therefrom, he or she, or another participant if there be any, causes the death of any person.
(4) He or she commits the crime of arson and a qualified governmental or volunteer firefighter or other public safety officer dies while performing his or her duty resulting from the arson.
(b) A person does not commit murder under subdivisions (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section if he or she was moved to act by a sudden heat of passion caused by provocation recognized by law, and before there had been a reasonable time for the passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself. The burden of injecting the issue of killing under legal provocation is on the defendant, but this does not shift the burden of proof. This subsection does not apply to a prosecution for, or preclude a conviction of, manslaughter or other crime.
(c) Murder is a Class A felony; provided, that the punishment for murder or any offense committed under aggravated circumstances, as provided by Article 2 of Chapter 5 of this title, is death or life imprisonment without parole, which punishment shall be determined and fixed as provided by Article 2 of Chapter 5 of this title or any amendments thereto.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §2005; Act 2006-427, p. 1057, §1.)
I wonder if we’ll see this incident on the “The First 48”?
Typical response from moms of these thugs...”My baby is a good boy. He wouldn’t hurt nobody....yadda, yadda”.
He would have had a better chance in life if his mom would have just named him ‘Bob’.
another Mom who is shocked, just shocked, that her boy was running with the wrong crowd.
It’s sad, he was only 13. But, what the heck was he doing out late at night, holding up people, if he’s really a good boy as Mom thinks?????
I am not aware of any state that does not have the felony-murder rule.
You’re committing a felony and someone gets killed - even your partner - you’re up for F-M. Feel free to inform me otherwise. ;-)
another Mom who is shocked, just shocked, that her boy was running with the wrong crowd.
It’s sad, he was only 13. But, what the heck was he doing out late at night, holding up people, if he’s really a good boy as Mom thinks?????
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