Friends and family remember Isiah Haggins Jr. (16-year old killed while robbing store)

WDTN Dayton ^ | 12 July 14 | Beairshelle Edmé

[Drew68]

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Family and friends gathered outside of a Dayton shopping plaza to remember a teen shot in an apparent robbery attempt.

Isiah Haggins Jr., 16, was shot multiple times by the owner of the Step-N-Style clothing store in the Northwest Shopping Plaza on West Siebenthaler Avenue on June 30. Police said Haggins, along with another suspect, walked into the store armed with guns in a reported robbery attempt.

Since Haggins’ death was declared a homicide, the Sisters of the Precious Blood held a vigil for him Saturday afternoon.

People gathered Saturday outside of the store to pray for Haggins and his family; his mother says the loss is tough.

“He was a young child that made a bad decision that cost him his life, But he was only 16. I’m pretty sure we’ve all done something that could cost us our lives at the age of 16. He was not a bad kid. He was just a child trying to be a teenage,” said Haggins’ mother Candace Talbott.

Police said the Step-N-Style owner was acting self defensive when he shot Haggins Junior; another suspect remains on the loose following the attempted robbery at the urban clothing store.

Talbott recognizes that her son’s actions were wrong but his death is not something she can let go.

“Do not let this just fly away as if it was just a murder that may have been justified. My son was shot four times. A 16-year-old kid was shot four times.”

Talbott says her son simply fell in with the wrong crowd.

Her family agrees noting that they had a feeling some of the guys he hung around were up to no good.

Now as they remember their loved, they urge all parents to trust your instincts and save your children from what happened in this case.

“And I want every parent to understand,you can say it, because I’ve said it before, ‘not my kid, my child would never do anything like that’ You can say it all day but once that child walks outside your door, you’re no longer around him, you do not known what that child will do,” said one attendee of the vigil.

The second suspect who was with Haggins Jr. fled and is still on the loose.

Police are reviewing surveillance video from the store and the shopping plaza as part of their investigation.

[MamaB]

I am 70 and had an awesome childhood. All my relatives except one family lived in the same town. I grew up on a farm and we stayed too busy to get in any trouble. I read, read and read in my free time if no one else was there. If relatives were there we played outside.

[Islander2]

Thanks, guys for your insightful input. What we would all like to see I’m sure would be self identified blacks commenting on this type of behavior that is decimating the mainly heavily populated inner cities.

[terycarl]

Just because he had dreds and tattoos, that doesn’t mean he was a thug,” she said.

it meant that he had no parental discipline and was, indeed, a thug

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So they gathered to rob the store in his memory?

[Chickensoup]

I remember a time when a family who had a member die during a crime, were ashamed and embarrassed and had quiet services for their dead family member.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I didn’t see the father’s comments.

[kcvl]

SCLC t-shirt

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Because of its dedication to non-violent direct-action protests, civil disobedience, and mobilizing mass participation in boycotts and marches, SCLC was considered more “radical” than the older NAACP, which favored lawsuits, legislative lobbying, and education campaigns

[fieldmarshaldj]

Another Saint Skittles disciple.

[Blue Collar Christian]

““Do not let this just fly away as if it was just a murder that may have been justified. My son was shot four times. A 16-year-old kid was shot four times”

I don’t believe she understands the murder. It is the partner at large that is the murderer, not the store owner that put him out of our misery. The murder has not been justified and the perpetrator is still at large.

Shot four times...whatever it takes to neutralize the threat, and her good boy (I’m guessing comparatively?) was a threat indeed.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I haven’t seen a serious dressed nun in years.

I fear that our son’s Catholic school is a bit too PC, and its only remaining nun (well-known to my mother, who graduated from same decades back) does not wear a habit at all. She is the proprietor, if you will.

[Pining_4_TX]

Read the comments after the story. All but one agree that this thug got what he deserved.

[Dagnabitt]

As fertilizer, Isiah has finally found a useful role for which he’s qualified. Everyone wins.

[Right2BareArms]

I posted this as an OP but it had naughty words so it got deleted: www.salon.com/2014/07/13/gunplay_is_all_i_know/

This is 100% what is wrong with the ghetto: thug gets a gun for “protection” and starts dealing smack, then makes a federal civil rights case out of it when the cops question him.

[skinkinthegrass]

Talbott says her son simply fell in with the wrong crowd.
Her family agrees noting that they had a feeling some
of the guys he hung around were up to no good.you sleep w/dogs, you gather fleas;
no sympathy, only for his victims.

[Rome2000]

Kid is no different than a democrat who steals peoples money using the electoral process to gain power and raise taxes

Just tried to do it the old fashioned way, at gunpoint

[Rome2000]

What kind of idiot robs a shoe store?

This place only take cash?

[School of Rational Thought]

...He was just a child trying to be a teenage,” said Haggins’ mother Candace Talbott.

That is the standard of behaviour? This is why the feral community will be attending more funerals.