Mother of boy shot dead denies spending donated funds on new car (Chicago)

WLS Chicago ^ | November 07, 2015 | Evelyn Holmes

[KeyLargo]

Example. 2015 Chrysler 200 Not actual car purchased by mother of dead boy.

[RKBA Democrat]

You just can’t make this stuff up.

[relictele]

This brood mare really sounds distraught.

[Sgt_Schultze]

[Tupelo]

Chicago.
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Not really surprised.

[Drew68]

"I'm just hoping that they find Tyshawn's killer," she said.

Tyshawn's dad knows who killed Tyshawn. He's not cooperating with the investigation.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Maybe there is a new Wide Screen TV as well as a Chrysler-unless the taxpayer provided one.

However, be that as it may the a nine year old boy was killed for nothing.

By the way I note that the outfit helping to set up the fund "takes a cut" of the donations. Good Lord EVERYBODY has their hand out for a fee.

[Vaduz]

BLM unless cash is involved.

[blam]

"Lee claims $13,000 remain in the account after she paid for some funeral expenses and GoFundMe took its percentage fee. Saturday, as she prepares to bury her son, she prays for justice and understanding."

[wideawake]

Her son's killers knew exactly who he was and where he lived.

If they want to kill her too, it doesn't matter if she's driving a brand new car, a used car, taking the El, taking the bus, taking an Uber, taking a gypsy cab, riding a bike, a Segway, or a hoverboard.

Her claim that she bought a new car out of abject fear is ridiculous - especially since a new car invites carjacking in her community.

[Drew68]

GoFundMe took its percentage fee

Of course GoFundMe charges a fee. So does Western Union, Moneygram, PayPal, etc. They're not in the business of giving away their services for free.

[KeyLargo]

As Chicago Alder-woman Carrie Austin put it in 2000. “I want 40 acres and a Lexus. You can keep the mule.”

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-05-01/news/0005010113_1_reparations-movement-affirmative-action-african-americans

[DJ MacWoW]

GoFundMe takes a fee as does the company that handles the funds and pays it out.

[Drew68]

By the way I note that the outfit helping to set up the fund "takes a cut" of the donations. Good Lord EVERYBODY has their hand out for a fee.

I'm sure the funeral home got paid as well. As did whoever made the casket. The suit Tyshawn was buried in, somebody paid for that.

GoFundMe is a business. Managing a website, processing sales, dispersing funds requires time and effort. Should they give their services away for free?

[Don Corleone]

Money is fungible

[DJ MacWoW]

GoFundMe is a business. Managing a website, processing sales, dispersing funds requires time and effort. Should they give their services away for free?

They don't do the pay out. Another company does and they also take a percentage, not a flat fee.

[TomGuy]

I noticed the Media basically glossed over that the ‘motive’ may have involved the boy’s father’s association with a gang.

[Drew68]

They don't do the pay out. Another company does and they also take a percentage, not a flat fee.

OK, I'm not familiar with the intricacies of GoFundMe's business operation but, clearly, they provide a service. My point was only that I don't believe GoFundMe is somehow morally wrong to charge a fee for the service they provide, whatever exactly this service entails.

[RKBA Democrat]

“Y’all don’t know nothing about me,” she said. “For y’all to be bashing me like that, and I just lost my child.”

Perhaps she’s referring to part of the grieving process we hadn’t known about. Along with denial, anger, and depression is the BRAND NEW CAR!!! Stage of grieving.

We should be ashamed for not being more sensitive to baby momma in her time of loss.