Posted on 10/23/2020 10:37:01 PM PDT by robowombat
Officer’s 2-Year-Old Son Murdered By Wanted Fugitive
Tom Gantert
Baton Rouge, LA – The two-year-old son of a New Roads police officer was gunned down inside his mother’s home by a wanted career criminal who was out on parole after having tried to kill 11 people.
Baton Rouge Police Sergeant L’Jean McKneely Jr. said the murderous crime spree began at about 8 p.m. on Oct. 15 when 41-year-old Kendrick Myles kidnapped his nine-year-old nephew from a home on Bluebonnet Boulevard in East Baton Rouge, The Advocate reported.
Sgt. McKneely said Myles dragged the child along as he embarked on a rampage that began with kicking in the door at a home on Osceola Street and fighting with the people inside.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul said Myles shot someone in that house in the hand, The Advocated reported.
Chief Paul said the victim identified Myles as the shooter and said he was a family member.
Police said the gunman left the Osceola house at about 8:20 p.m. and went to yet another home where he reportedly had issues with the people inside, The Advocate reported.
Myles arrived at a home in the 6000-block of West Upland Avenue in Zion City at about 9:30 p.m.
Police said he opened fire and sprayed bullets indiscriminately into the building, The Advocate reported.
Two-year-old Azariah “Christien” Thomas was inside the home when Myles opened fire and was fatally shot, WBRZ reported.
The toddler was the son of New Roads Police Officer Vince Hutchinson, who had just dropped Christien off at his mother’s residence a couple hours before he was killed.
“My son was in the house,” Officer Hutchinson told WBRZ. “He was in the house when he was shot. It was not a drive-by shooting. Myles got out and opened fire.”
The officer said he didn’t know Myles before the man killed his son.
Sgt. McKneely said Myles left that shooting scene and proceeded to a home in the 1400-block of Snipe Street in Scotlandville, The Advocate reported.
Police responded to 911 calls about shots fired at about 9:50 p.m. after Myles opened fire on a relative who had arrived to try and rescue the kidnapped nephew.
Myles barricaded himself in the house with the nine year old and engaged in a standoff with police that lasted until 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 16, according to The Advocate.
No shots were fired during the standoff, according to police.
Myles was apprehended after he tried to make a run for it from the house, The Advocate reported.
His nephew was rescued by the police uninjured.
The East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office said Myles is a career criminal who was out on parole and had outstanding warrants when he kidnapped his nephew and went on his shooting spree.
He has been arrested 29 times and convicted 11 times, including some charges for violent crimes, The Advocate reported.
Myles was wanted for setting a house on fire in July, nearby the home on Osceola where he opened fire in October.
He was arrested on drug and weapons charges in 2017 after he went to a church founded by his recently-deceased mother “in a rage of terror” and threatened to shoot his brother-in-law and others, The Advocate reported.
Online court records showed Myles was convicted of attempted murder in 2005 after he tried to kill 11 people over a fight with a girlfriend.
He was arrested after the police standoff on Oct. 16 and charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, felon in possession of a firearm, and home invasion, according to The Advocate.
Myles was also charged with kidnapping, according to WVUE.
He is being held without bond.
Officer Hutchinson was devastated by his son’s murder and called the toddler a fun-loving and precocious child, WBRZ reported.
“Just very smart, he was an angel in our midst,” the grieving father said. “We didn’t even know. He was always happy and never forgot a face.”
Officer Hutchinson said his mother called him after Christien was shot and told him to get to the hospital, but didn’t tell him why, WBRZ reported.
“This is just evil,” the officer said. “Nothing else to say, plain evil.”
The East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office said Myles is a career criminal who was out on parole and had outstanding warrants when he kidnapped his nephew and went on his shooting spree.
He has been arrested 29 times and convicted 11 times, including some charges for violent crimes, The Advocate reported.
Myles was wanted for setting a house on fire in July, nearby the home on Osceola where he opened fire in October.
He was arrested on drug and weapons charges in 2017 after he went to a church founded by his recently-deceased mother “in a rage of terror” and threatened to shoot his brother-in-law and others, The Advocate reported.
Online court records showed Myles was convicted of attempted murder in 2005 after he tried to kill 11 people over a fight with a girlfriend.
He was arrested after the police standoff on Oct. 16 and charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, felon in possession of a firearm, and home invasion, according to The Advocate.
Myles was also charged with kidnapping, according to WVUE.
He is being held without bond.
The people who let this monster out are also quite evil. Nothing justifies it.
Horrifying. Prayers for the family’s peace of mind.
“He is being held without bond”
A little late for that!! This monster shouldn’t have been out on the streets with his record.
Tie him up in the sun.
I’d like to know about the kidnapping. They call lots of things kidnapping these days. Maybe even when a minor goes off willingly with an adult. Lots of movement and chaos. Kids know how to exploit those to get away.
A civilized society will not tolerate animals like these, nor will they keep them alive so the can do more damage. The legal system in America is a failure for allowing people like this person to live; they have no conscience, no mortality, and no soul.
[He has been arrested 29 times and convicted 11 times, including some charges for violent crimes, The Advocate reported.]
Yeah, but the Democrats want you to know, had he been arrested 30 times and convicted 12 times, they would have done something.
In the meanwhile, they’d like to have him vote and for Joe Biden.
[He has been arrested 29 times and convicted 11 times, including some charges for violent crimes, The Advocate reported.]
Yeah, but the Democrats want you to know, had he been arrested 30 times and convicted 12 times, they would have done something.
In the meanwhile, they’d like to have him vote and for Joe Biden.
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People that look like him are everywhere in the inner cities. Literally everywhere, and I’m not talking about skin color.
That they’re letting monsters like that out to roam the streets should be a crime in itself. A career criminal with a long violent history screams for separation from society. We have 3 strikes and you’re out here in Cali, mandating 20 yrs to life for the 3rd violent crime on your record. This law should be nation wide, even though liberal judges here find ways around it. Bleeding heart liberals sure never bleed any empathy for the victims of crime I’ve noticed.
True, I believe from his mug shot and rap sheet, this one willingly embraced the Devil and Satan has put a demonic spirit in his physical person.
Well, then I want the leftists the heck out of my country. They don't belong in a sane, moral society.
Specifically: How will he be able to continue interacting with the public (including encounters with "uncooperative" persons from the same milieu as the murderer of his son) in a fair and impartial manner?
Poor man...
Regards,
True, but it is difficult to banish native Americans who are rich and powerful and rejoice at such phenomenon as the enormous impact the big porn presence on the net has.
This murderer should not have been allowed outside a prison or mental hospital. Theories or purposes of enforcing laws include public safety, criminal rehabilitation and victim retribution and societal justice. Liberals focus primarily on rehabilitation. Conservatives focus mostly on public safety. But both sides also need to focus on retribution.
Victims and society at large need to feel they have been heard and their anger understood and condoned. When the justice system ignores this anger by stringing out proceedings, not charging or undercharging, by releasing criminals on technicalities, and by ignoring reasonable sentences or letting the criminal go free sooner than expected, a vital pressure release fails. Doing justice is a basic function of government if it intends to channel and control its citizen’s righteous anger. Failing to do justice means the pressure continues to build until the society explodes in an orgy of violence. The US is getting dangerously close to that point.
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