Posted on 08/23/2013 6:36:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An 88-year-old American World War II veteran has been beaten to death by two teenagers in an apparently random attack in the state of Washington.
Police found Delbert Belton suffering from severe head injuries in the parking lot of a pool venue he frequented in the eastern city of Spokane.
Belton, who had survived being shot in a leg during the Battle of Okinawa, was rushed to hospital but died hours later.
Police claim the retired aluminium company worker was just about to enter the Eagles Lodge pool venue and play the game he loved, when two men, believed to be aged 19 and 16, assaulted him.
"It does appear random," Spokane police Lt Mark Griffiths told reporters. "It appears he was assaulted in the parking lot and there was no indication that he would have known these people prior to the assault."
Widowed for a few years, Belton reportedly went to the Eagles Lodge at least twice a week, to have a game and meet friends he used to work with at the local Kaiser aluminum factory.
According to his friends, who called him "Shorty", he had never had an altercation outside the lodge before.
"I don't understand how somebody could do this. I really don't," Ted Denison, Belton's best friend for 23 years, told local news channel KXLY.
Belton served in the US Army in the Pacific during WWII. Police are on a manhunt for the two suspects and have released pictures of them taken at the crime scene.
It is the second random killing to shock America in recent days.
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One teen is in custody this morning.
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True, but I don’t think ropes send the message to wannabe’s like public guillotine would...I once read somewhere that the head would live for a couple of seconds, and in particular cases,the executioner would hold it up where it could see it’s body. I have no idea if that is true or possible though.Just the thought of a guillotine should give these little gang-bangers the willies...
If Obama and Holder finally succeed in starting a war, it won’t end well for their side. Good black folks are going to have some choices to make,since the next civil war/revolution will be divided alot along racial lines, among other things. And Patriots may have to accept help from groups that they consider unsavory. All remains to be seen, but incidents like this are certainly fueling the fire.
He left out a culture that teaches the children that they are unwanted, and that killing unwanted people is a civil right.
Obama’s, Media’s Double Standard On Interracial Shootings
“the obvious solution to the problem of black youths being viewed as a problem is to get black youths to stop being a problem.”
No, my college profs would tell you it’s “white privilege”.
You are on the wrong story.
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