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13-year-old boy arrested in deadly attempted carjacking of mom (St. Louis)
WFMY2 News ^ | 02/24/2023 | Hayley Vawter

Posted on 02/25/2023 10:25:07 AM PST by Drew68

ST. LOUIS — A 13-year-old boy is the latest arrest in connection with a suspected attempted carjacking in January that left a woman dead.

On Jan. 24, 38-year-old Kay Johnson was fatally shot while pulling her car into her garage in the 4700 block of Compton Avenue. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Johnson's 14-year-old daughter was in the car with her when she died.

At the time of Johnson's death, St. Louis police said they believed she was one of several victims in a string of recent attempted or confirmed carjackings.

On Friday, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced that a 13-year-old boy had been arrested in St. Louis County on suspicion of first-degree murder and robbery in connection with the case.

This comes after a 14-year-old boy was arrested on Jan. 28 in St. Louis County on suspicion of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery in connection to the shooting.

Both teens were being held at the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center.

St. Louis police did not release the names of either of the teens.

On Jan. 25, a car that a police source said was wanted in connection Johnson's shooting crashed in St. Louis after a police pursuit. Three suspects, ages 16, 17 and 18, were taken into custody after the crash.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
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To: Drew68

Oh those teen rascals and their mischievous ways of getting undocumented reparations.


41 posted on 02/25/2023 11:25:55 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Allegra

That’s the tragic part of a whole horrifying crime. That poor girl will be scarred for life. Just so a little b*st*rd can have a car for 2 hours.


42 posted on 02/25/2023 11:31:53 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I believe it’s the word “hang” that causes a stay in FB jail. I used it once in reference to Hillary once and off to the pokey for me. Now if I use it I type it spaced out, h a n g, the little FB word police don’t seem to catch it that way.


43 posted on 02/25/2023 11:32:15 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: The Antiyuppie
"I’d really like to see these little bastards get a beat down that they will think about every minute of their lives because it will hurt."

Kneecap them. Like the IRA did when they were the law in Ireland because the RIC were afraid to leave their barracks.

44 posted on 02/25/2023 11:34:06 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Drew68

To all here:

The culprit killed this woman and may get the benefit of a plea bargain or a reduced sentence in the prosecution’s plan for the trial to result in a conviction.

And the ones who stay in juvenile incarceration often get out early or at the most are released at age 18. At that time they often track down the witnesses, jurors and survivor such as the daughter.

There will be no wood chipper involved.

And no true justice in the system of pseudo-justice.

My prayers going up for the soul of the woman killed and for her daughter to heal from the horrific memory and other loved ones and friends to cope with this.


45 posted on 02/25/2023 11:34:08 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: tina07

*pardon the use of once, twice!*


46 posted on 02/25/2023 11:34:34 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: Drew68

Such criminality is designed and approved by our Betters.


47 posted on 02/25/2023 11:34:35 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino (T from Dr.)
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To: Drew68

One shouldn’t judge based on names, but Compton Avenue sounds like a place to avoid.


48 posted on 02/25/2023 11:39:17 AM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
People need to follow Scott Adams’ advice. It’s the only way to survive.

Some of the best advice came from a reader's comment to the Dilbert article. Support Scott Adams by buying his books. I think I'll buy some soon.

49 posted on 02/25/2023 11:41:28 AM PST by roadcat
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To: thegagline

Analyze his family. Was it a single parent family?


50 posted on 02/25/2023 11:42:52 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Roadrunner383

They ought to start putting small charges in those ankle monitors. If the person wearing it strays from his assigned areas, he gets his foot blown off.


51 posted on 02/25/2023 11:47:48 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: CrosscutSaw

Time to bring back public hangings at the courthouse.


52 posted on 02/25/2023 11:49:57 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Drew68

After a fair trial... Then Execution is in order for that souless simian. He is not worth redemption in prison or anywhere.


53 posted on 02/25/2023 11:50:38 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: frank ballenger

“The culprit killed this woman and may get the benefit of a plea bargain or a reduced sentence...”


Again the MO law in cases like this may well have changed in the decades since I worked at a MO ‘youth center’.

Unless he is certified as an adult, which might not be legally possible because of his age, he’ll be tried in a juvenile court for ‘delinquency’. The trial will be held in secret and the outcome never announced. The surviving daughter and the public will not be allowed to know what became of her mother’s murderer.

Philosophically, the juvenile justice system does not exist to punish young offenders but rather to try and ‘fix’ them into becoming good people.

The juvenile judge will sentence him to whatever the judge feels will serve the juvenile’s best interests. He could be sent to a group home, a ‘youth center’ (much more confining) or even sent home to his parent(s). While the judge may no doubt take the severity of the crime involved in meting out the sentence, he or she doesn’t have to.


54 posted on 02/25/2023 11:50:49 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: CrosscutSaw

To quote Judge Vernon Hillyard of the Murrieta Justice Court:

“Bring the next guilty son of a bitch in here so we can give him a fair trial”!


55 posted on 02/25/2023 11:53:23 AM PST by Glennb51
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To: hanamizu

I appreciate your detailed information.

Reading it shows again the victim is the underdog, the one with no rights and with no true justice.


56 posted on 02/25/2023 11:53:48 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: The people have spoken
You can look at the Compton Avenue Neighborhood in Google Street View. It looks like the "Gravoix Park" area. It's not a lux place; it's a somewhat decent, older lower/middle class neighborhood. The homes were built before they had garages facing the street. The garages all detached and they open to alleyways perpendicular to the street. There are lots of hidden places for the bastards to hang out and ambush you as you are putting the car in the garage.
57 posted on 02/25/2023 11:55:31 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: Drew68

Only 13? Will get a pass.


58 posted on 02/25/2023 12:02:53 PM PST by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Decades ago, public hangings were a great deterrent to “yoots” like this.


59 posted on 02/25/2023 12:19:18 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: Drew68

For a while, gangs have been letting their youngest members do the shootings, figuring they would not do serious prison time.

This needs to change.


60 posted on 02/25/2023 12:30:47 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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