Posted on 04/23/2013 1:30:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Cornelius German told his mother he was afraid to wait for her at the bus stop because of all the shootings lately, so he asked her to meet him at a friend's.
Timika Rutledge said she and the boy's father pulled up to a home and waited Monday night, even blowing the horn for him to come out. Then they saw police arrive.
"I saw an officer and I stopped him and asked, 'Officer, what's going on?' "
A kid got shot in the back," he told Rutledge.
"I went back there and saw my son's jacket and his gym shoes. I just bought those shoes. I saw him laying in the grass in the backyard. ... I knew it was him in the dark.
"I stayed there until they took him to the morgue," Rutledge said. "They covered him in a burgundy blanket."
Relatives said Cornelius, nicknamed Cornbread, was hanging out with friends in the backyard of a home in the 5000 block of South Evans Avenue when a dice game broke up around 9:30 p.m. Gunfire erupted and Cornelius was hit in the back.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Riiiiight.
Dice game went wrong, kid probably mouthed off to another criminal, and got shot in the back.
“If Obama had a son, would he be called Cornbread?”
No - probably “Son of CakeBoy”.
...”the president and first lady were saddened to learn of yet another young victim of gun violence in their hometown of Chicago. The president remains committed to pressuring Congress to pass common-sense legislation to reduce gun violence.”
Nothing like standing on the still-warm body of a kid to promote your agenda.
If he was serious about reducing violence, he’d address the causes of wholesale, societal criminality (hard) instead of demonizing guns (easy).
Well, he said himself that he was lazy. But I guess that’s racist to point that out, so I won’t.
“It’s not a gang, it’s a club.”
A father with 'no name'? Could he be the fabled son of 0bama?
what a cesspool
Article says the shooting could be gang-related. Well, the answer is that our geniuses in Washington should pass a law making gangs illegal!
And what’s with this team name: Washington Park Redskins? It was probably an angry, insulted American Indian who pulled the trigger. How insensitive. Change that name now!!!
Have we lost all common sense?
Yeah, I thought so too...
Dice? Parchesi?
“I went back there and saw my son’s jacket and his gym shoes. I just bought those shoes.”
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Indication of the mother’s priorities?
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