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.
Good point. It isn't all over the news yet, and the expired felon is almost certainly black... so the shooter is almost certainly not white or Asian or Hispanic
Pretty odd combination, to have a CCW as well as shoes for which a Gibmedats acolyte would commit an armed felony.
Al Sharpton is the Master (race) Bator of all.
He said, "Hands up! Donate shoes!"
Now you’ll give him a complex.
They should be charged with the murder of their accomplice. They engaged in an act that caused their buddies death.
Perhaps a FReeper lawyer can help out here?
He had apparently been an altar boy but decided instead to turn to robbery.
The problem was his moral compass was broken and he kept turning his life around to the same bad path.
The other creeps won’t miss him,they just shrug their shoulders and carry on.
I swear to God, these people must have a little pull string between their shoulder, like my kid sister's "Mama" doll. The string is pulled after each killing and the same canned bullshit is repeated.
They don't seem to realize that they have become parodies.
As it should be. Had this man not been armed, only the crimminal would have had a gun.
Indeed.
Yep, it sounds like something out of The Manchurian Candidate.....
“JJ is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
Apperently, every two-bit hood fits this description.
How does this meme get spread around so much.
Nothing about “well, he sure fooled us.”
Morality isn’t even about morality. It is a shadow of what a saved relationship with God would look like.
“”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. “
One of the greatest quotes ever.
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That kind of plain speaking is rarely heard these days.
....”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.”..(from the article)
Dayton is fast becoming Detroit. When I lived about an hour from there, in a small community, everybody I met when I first moved there said....”Do not go to Dayton at night and never alosne in the day time”...That was 10 yrs ago so I can imagine how bad it is there now.
He's de-composing now.
yeah, good kids pull this sh1t. i must have stole thousands of items from shoppers during my high school years. /s
i am so tired of people in obvious denial saying what good people their family thug is, and not being challenged on it from anyone. that’s not the definition of a good kid. when you do bad things, you aren’t a good kid.
Dayton is “dark”. A city you don’t want to go to.
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