Posted on 09/01/2020 2:07:41 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A teenage boy who was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Harrisburg was fleeing, naked, from a registered sex offender who is now facing criminal homicide charges, a witness said Sunday morning.
“He was pleading for his life,” Tracy Burton recalled. She and several of her neighbors witnessed the slaying Saturday, and as police continue to investigate, neighbors are left wondering just how this happened in their otherwise quiet neighborhood. Orlando P. Duarte, 45, of Harrisburg, is facing charges of criminal homicide and prohibited possession of a firearm. The shooting happened around 1 p.m near 18th and Forster streets. Police said Sunday that they responded to the scene for a call of shots fired. When they got there, residents directed them toward the area where the suspect fled.
After a chase, police said, they took Duarte into custody. Investigators said witnesses told them that Duarte, armed with a handgun, was chasing a juvenile, who police did not identify. Police said witnesses told them Duarte fired several shots at the boy, who was taken to a nearby hospital and died a short time later.
Duarte had a handgun on him when he was arrested, police say. Burton, who called 911, said she was on her porch when she saw the boy running naked and turning to cut between houses. Duarte was pursuing him, she said. As she and other neighbors made their way toward the houses, they could hear the boy yelling “help me,” which was soon followed by gunshots, she said. The boy continued to yell “help” as the gunshots rang out. They stopped approaching when they heard the shots, she said. Between those houses was a white fence, which trapped the boy. Burton counted five shots, she said. A Harrisburg television station identified the boy as 16-year-old Kyan King. His family held a memorial at the scene Saturday night and remembered Kyan as smart and sweet and having a goofy laugh, reports indicate.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Kyan’s family with the funeral expenses. Duarte had been added to Pennsylvania’s Megan’s Law registry in November 2015 for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and is listed as a lifetime sex offender.
According to online court records, Duarte — who police said lived a block from a charter school, a day care and the Harrisburg School District’s administration building — was sentenced in 2012 to four to eight years in prison and 10 years of probation on charges that include involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, aggravated indecent assault without consent, indecent assault of a person less than 13, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of minors. And in 2008, he was sentenced to six to 23 months of confinement and probation after pleading no contest to charges of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, indecent assault of a person less than 16 and disorderly conduct. In that case, he was sentenced to six to 23 months of confinement with a lengthy probation sentence, court records indicate. Duarte is now in Dauphin County Prison without bail.
they are well protected in prison, jails though can be rough with limited space and low pay, but we can hope.
Just kill them from the first offense & be done with them.
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Hey, careful there! Don’t you know it’s DANGEROUS to advocate such a reasonable, civilized course of action in an uncivilized country?
How did this happen in our peaceful neighborhood? You POS residents did not shoot the dirt bag molester and killer before he did that poor kid. Scum don’t deserve a nice neighborhood.
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