Posted on 06/12/2022 4:21:40 PM PDT by grundle
A photo of the SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster gel gun found at the scene.Courtesy of the Akron Police Department.
Ethan Liming, 17, was killed after he and a group of juveniles targeted people with a water gun.
Three adult males were arrested on murder and felonious assault charges in connection with Liming's death.
Police said the juveniles "provoked the altercation" but that the attack was not "remotely justified."
An Ohio teenager was beaten to death after he and a group of teenagers shot at people with a water gun, police said.
Authorities were called to the scene of a fight at the I Promise School established by LeBron James' foundation on June 2 at 10:46 p.m., Akron Police Department Chief Stephen Mylett said.
When officers arrived, they found 17-year-old Ethan Liming lying on the ground in the parking lot, unresponsive. They tried to render aid, but Liming was pronounced dead on the scene, Mylett said.
"Ethan Liming lost his life in a senseless act of violence. Ethan did not deserve to die Saturday night. He did not," Mylett said in a press conference.
According to preliminary interviews conducted by police, Mylett said Liming was among a group of four juveniles who arrived in the lot near the basketball courts.
"Shortly after their arrival, they got out of their vehicle, and at least two members of occupants of the vehicle started discharging a, what we know now to be a SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster," Mylett said. "They started discharging it at the direction of four individuals who were playing basketball on the basketball court."
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I thought midnight basketball was supposed to prevent violence...
The 3 men should have called cops and wait for a response.
Three OHIO men...
“Liming was white, and the three suspects arrested in connection with his death are Black.
“There is nothing that we have in our possession right now, any indication at all, indicating that race played a role in this homicide. Nothing,” Mylett said during the press conference.”
Uh huh. You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Looking back, super lucky nobody ever caught up to us when we were driving around throwing Halloween pumpkins at parked cars.
Don’t bring a Water Bead Blaster gel gun to a curbstomping.
Diff’rent world back then.
“No hate crime here. Move along, move along”.
—-The radical left
Kid did deserve an ass whipping but he didn’t deserve to die. In old America I would think this was a fight that went to far. In todays America maybe they did intend to kill him.
Play. Stupid. Games.
According to News 5 Cleveland, authorities arrested three suspects on June 11 on murder and felonious assault charges: Deshawn Stafford, 20; Tyler Stafford, 19; and Donovan Jones, 21.
On Jan. 6, 2021, a U.S. Capitol policewoman beat to death one of the pro-Trump protesters and suffered no consequences. Unlike Ashley Babbitt, that case has received very little subsequent attention.
Yep. We used to throw shaving cream-filled balloons from our car windows when we were teenagers. I’m so glad we were kids when we were and not now.
Hang ‘em. All three. Tomorrow at noon. Town square.
Sounds like Liming didn’t know his place in this new society.
The Saxon will need to correct this at some point.
It seems that some have been led to believe that we are not all equal. That “understanding” will need to be recalibrated here shortly.
No races mentioned so easy to figure out.
If you stay away from Black people you're probably still okay today.
The victim, Ethan Liming (left) Deshawn Stafford, 20; Tyler Stafford, 19; and Donovan Jones, 21
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