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13-year-old boy [who was participating in an armed robbery] dies after car owner shoots during attempted robbery, police say [Chicago]
Fox News via yahoo.com ^ | August 4, 2022 | Ronn Blitzer

Posted on 08/05/2022 11:29:14 AM PDT by grundle

A 13-year-old boy is dead after he and a group of others allegedly tried to break into a parked car, only for the owner to show up in time for a fatal confrontation, police said, according to local Fox32.

Law enforcement officials said that the boy, Dion Young, was one of "four to five" males who were trying to break into a car parked in Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago. Then the car's owner, a woman in her 30s with a concealed carry license, arrived.

According to police, when the woman confronted the group, one of the males displayed a gun. That led to her pulling out a weapon of her own and pulling the trigger.

Young suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, police said. He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital and died Tuesday afternoon.

Police said the other males had fled the scene, and that investigators did not recover any weapons.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the situation, police said.

Violent crime has been an ongoing problem in Chicago, to the point that businesses have been moving out of the city

At the same time, Chicago police statistics reported by the Chicago Sun-Times this week said the number of shootings in the city was down 20% this year, with homicides down 16%.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; chicago
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This wasn't just a "13-year-old boy." He was a participant in an armed robbery.
1 posted on 08/05/2022 11:29:14 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Don’t confuse the narrative with facts


2 posted on 08/05/2022 11:34:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: grundle

Looks like he was tried as an adult . . .


3 posted on 08/05/2022 11:34:41 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: grundle

Thr other males fled the scene, and didn’t try to help their injured fellow gang member. Oh well.

Those other males sure aren’t very brave when confronted with armed resistance.


4 posted on 08/05/2022 11:35:19 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Certainly not the first 13 year old armed kid to die while armed.


5 posted on 08/05/2022 11:35:47 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: grundle

Since it’s Illinois/Chicago, there’s a 50/50 chance she’ll be charged with something and/or sued for depriving the “child” of his “civil rights”.


6 posted on 08/05/2022 11:35:48 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

In 5 years he will start voting in the next 156 Presidential elections as a democrat.


7 posted on 08/05/2022 11:36:43 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: grundle

Poor defenseless child/industrial strength sarcasm


8 posted on 08/05/2022 11:37:08 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: grundle

Dead criminals do not re-offend.


9 posted on 08/05/2022 11:39:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

They didn’t specify race of the woman so I’m guessing she is black. Meaning she probably wont see charges. Kudos to her for getting the conceal/carry license and I hope that included some firearms training. At least she gets it.


10 posted on 08/05/2022 11:39:55 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: grundle

He died doing what he loved.


11 posted on 08/05/2022 11:40:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle

Just waiting for his mother to come out and say he was a good boy, turning his life around, etc.


12 posted on 08/05/2022 11:40:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: grundle

“He a gud boi! He dindu nuffin!”


13 posted on 08/05/2022 11:41:20 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kriggerel

“Only a lad. You really can’t blame him.”
“Only a lad. Society made him.”
“Only a lad. He’s our responsibility.”
Oh, oh, oohh oh oh oh
“Only a lad. He really couldn’t help it.”
“Only a lad. He didn’t want to do it.”
“Only a lad. He’s underprivileged and abused.”
Perhaps a little bit confused?


14 posted on 08/05/2022 11:42:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle

You want to do big boy crime, you suffer big boy risks.


15 posted on 08/05/2022 11:42:28 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: grundle

Play gansta, win gansta prizes...


16 posted on 08/05/2022 11:42:54 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: grundle

She had the right to confront them verbally, and according to the content of the articles, she could have felt threatened with death or great bodily harm. Self-defense.


17 posted on 08/05/2022 11:43:12 AM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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“He died doing what he loved.”

Yup.


18 posted on 08/05/2022 11:44:00 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

She will show the baby photos and ones from school that were taken before he got all the tats and gang look ...

Meanwhile in his online account he holds guns in his pics


19 posted on 08/05/2022 11:44:28 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: grundle

By that headline, you would think the car owner was trying to rob the 13-year-old.


20 posted on 08/05/2022 11:45:23 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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