Posted on 12/23/2014 4:25:27 PM PST by digger48
DAYTON, OH (FOX19) - The Middletown teen who was shot and killed at the Dayton Mall over the weekend was trying to steal shoes from a man with a concealed carry license, police say.
Officials say the investigation shows that three male juveniles approached two men outside of the hhgregg store just after 10 a.m.. According to police, 16-year-old Jawaad Jabbar got out a gun and demanded merchandise from the men.
One of the men, who police say had a valid concealed carry license, produced his gun and shot Jabbar. Jabbar died from injuries sustained from the gunshot. "This was a random act of, 'I want something that person has and I'm going to take it from them,'” said Sgt. Jay Phares of the Miami Township Police Department.
Miami Township and Miamisburg police departments as well as the Montgomery County Sheriff's Officer and Dayton Mall security officers assisted with the investigation.
Police say all suspects were apprehended, witnesses were interviewed and several pieces of evidence were collected at the scene. Two male teenagers are now being held at the Montgomery County juvenile detention center awaiting charges.
According to authorities, all of the people directly involved in the incident were at the mall to attend a limited athletic shoe release sale. Police say the two groups did not know each other and they only communicated when an aggravated robbery was attempted.
Officials say Jabbar was the only person injured. The investigation is still ongoing.
“JJ was a good kid, making good decisions and turning his life around. Everytime he stepped on the field, he was determined to be the best player. It's upsetting that his life ended so soon and I just want to send prayers out to his family and he will really be missed,” a fellow football teammate, Messiah Haralson, told FOX19 NOW.
Middletown Middles athletics sent a tweet Saturday night in honor of Jabbar.
FOX19 NOW spoke to Jabbar's father by phone late Sunday. He says his son is a world-class young man, a good athlete and a good student.
Last week more than 200 people waited outside a Toledo area mall to get their hands on a limited edition of Air Jordan shoes. Toledo police had to set up barricades for the large crowd but some of shoppers pushed through the barricades, even knocking down some officers. Police were forced to deploy pepper spray balls to control the unruly crowd.
That is sad to note, but true. We’d like to think of our past presidents as more dignified than that. Well, this one was not, and it scarcely raised a scandal. Well, except for the scandal of millions of black people who now viewed government as their savior. God does not have anything very nice to say about that.
There are so many more out there, though.
That takes a lot of work. I still don’t understand it.
Yes. Let's follow liberal's "thinking" shall we?
Either the SHOES must be banned, because they cause violence.
We need STRICTER gun control, so that people won't shoot someone over SHOES.
We need to have WHITE people stop shooting persons of color when they try to steal SHOES.
OR, we could go full truthiness, and say: gosh, my life isn't WORTH a pair of SHOES, nor is it worth stealing anything.
But that would be a republican/conservative approach.
Which means it would work.
Therefore it won't happen.
No, let's go with the leftist approach and blame Nike, or racism.
BEST start a riot and burn some buildings.
Better get all over his ass and start calling him an Uncle Tom or whatever.
“He was such a good boy. Deednt do nuffin”
One less piece of trash my tax dollars have to pay for.
Most of the black community is fatherless and doesn’t seem to know right from wrong. I’d be embarrassed if I were black.
...” I still don’t understand it”....
Me neither...and interesting I was listening to videos of black men explaining why they don’t like dating black woman...and these hair extremes are one of the many reasons they don’t.
I think they model themselves after some of the Rappers and singers....who do go to extremes...and then put their own twist on it. Either or it’s not attractive in the least IMO.
Learned that in the military: If you did good, you were awarded 1 "attaboy". If you accumulated 100 "attaboys", you got a day off. Nobody ever got a day off because one "awshit" wiped out any accumulated "attaboys".
LOL! Same here.
Sorry, these are not "random". It is a deeply embedded cultural flaw.
Oh, cry me a river!
stay tuned....for the Nike Riots of 2015
al sharptons will sloganize same...by declaring JUST DO IT!
Yeah it has been gone for sometime.
Transients burned it down.
If he was committing aggravated assault and strong-armed robbery with a deadly weapon, one wonders what he was doing before he so serendipitously turned his life around? Serial killings?
In any event, sweet Jabbar is now a very gentle giant, his life is genuinely turned around, and he really won't be making any bad decisions to hurt a soul.
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