Posted on 07/13/2014 3:15:03 PM PDT by Drew68
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Family and friends gathered outside of a Dayton shopping plaza to remember a teen shot in an apparent robbery attempt.
Isiah Haggins Jr., 16, was shot multiple times by the owner of the Step-N-Style clothing store in the Northwest Shopping Plaza on West Siebenthaler Avenue on June 30. Police said Haggins, along with another suspect, walked into the store armed with guns in a reported robbery attempt.
Since Haggins’ death was declared a homicide, the Sisters of the Precious Blood held a vigil for him Saturday afternoon.
People gathered Saturday outside of the store to pray for Haggins and his family; his mother says the loss is tough.
“He was a young child that made a bad decision that cost him his life, But he was only 16. I’m pretty sure we’ve all done something that could cost us our lives at the age of 16. He was not a bad kid. He was just a child trying to be a teenage,” said Haggins’ mother Candace Talbott.
Police said the Step-N-Style owner was acting self defensive when he shot Haggins Junior; another suspect remains on the loose following the attempted robbery at the urban clothing store.
Talbott recognizes that her son’s actions were wrong but his death is not something she can let go.
“Do not let this just fly away as if it was just a murder that may have been justified. My son was shot four times. A 16-year-old kid was shot four times.”
Talbott says her son simply fell in with the wrong crowd.
Her family agrees noting that they had a feeling some of the guys he hung around were up to no good.
Now as they remember their loved, they urge all parents to trust your instincts and save your children from what happened in this case.
“And I want every parent to understand,you can say it, because I’ve said it before, ‘not my kid, my child would never do anything like that’ You can say it all day but once that child walks outside your door, you’re no longer around him, you do not known what that child will do,” said one attendee of the vigil.
The second suspect who was with Haggins Jr. fled and is still on the loose.
Police are reviewing surveillance video from the store and the shopping plaza as part of their investigation.
“‘“He was a young child that made a bad decision that cost him his life, But he was only 16. I’m pretty sure we’ve all done something that could cost us our lives at the age of 16. He was not a bad kid. He was just a child trying to be a teenage,” said Haggins’ mother Candace Talbott.’”
I don’t know when I have seen the Black mother of one of these “poor innocent victims” who had the same last name as the deceased. Looks to me as though these women drop their drawers for any man who stops by. Oh well, a friend who works for the DMV said she saw the title on a Cadillac that had 32 “owners.” I guess you get the car for a week once every year whether you need it or not.
For the FReepers who want to know more about the journalist who is responsible for this waste of digital ink, see the linky at http://wdtn.com/about-us/staff-bios/beairshelle-edme/
I think that's a big difference between the white and black communities. Sure white kids from good families commit horrible, violent crimes. It happens all the time. The difference is that you don't tend to see excuses being made.
As the father of two sons, I'd like to think that if this were one of my boys who got killed trying to rob someone, I'd grieve privately and in public, I'd apologize for his actions.
Apparently so.
they stop being kids when they start using guns to commit crimes..
The North Face cap, Polo shirt.....sounds like he was a real hard worker/s
LOL!
The website, Stuff That Black People Don’t Like posted this which I have excerpted. Most of it was quoting WHIO.com who apparently have revised their original story.
All Together Now: “He [Isiah Haggins] Was a Good Boy”
. . . WHIO.com [New details from coroner on teen shot during robbery, WHIO.com, 7-2-14]:
“I want answers,” said Isiah Haggins Sr., father of Isiah Haggins Jr. “And I want the truth.”
Haggins’ grandmother, Kay Haggins, wants to see Step-N-Style’s surveillance video as proof that her grandson posed a threat to the store owner.
“I want to know what happened, where he was shot?” she said. “Was it self-defense? Because it’s their word and he’s not here to speak for himself. We don’t know. We are just going by what (the store owner) said. I just want to know how my grandchild died.”
. . .
Haggins’ family said he had been in some troubles in the past — he’d been expelled from Trotwood-Madison High School because of bad grades, behavior problems and for shoplifting — . . .
“Just because he had dreds and tattoos, that doesn’t mean he was a thug,” she said. “He wasn’t. He was a home baby. He loved to be home. I don’t know what happened to make him go down that road. It’s not him.”
. . . the elder Haggins said. “He wanted to go shopping, so he was going to call me back. He never called me back.”
This story was posted at 11:21 a.m. yesterday, but excised to take away the hilarious quotes from the family.
Your son never called you back, Mr. Haggins, because he was attempting to rob a hip-hop store with a gun.
But...
“He was a good boy,” after all.
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2014/07/all-together-now-he-isiah-higgins-was.html
Also not this discalimer at the top of the website.
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Another Tyrone son of 0bama????? Maybe he should have showed his ID so he wouldn’t have been shot. Oh, forgot. Dems say you don’t need no steekin’ ID.
He was living with his father and his mother lives in Florida.
Yeah he was just a kid trying to be a teenager. All my teenaged sons aspired to be armed robbers/potential killers....didn’t yours????
The people in his life seemed to recognize that his friends weren’t a good influence. Try telling a 16 year old to get different friends.
I know. He was NOT a young child either
I completely see them justifying his actions
Another of hussein’s sons.
16 and tattooed? Jeez, my kids are so hated....they don’t have tattoos. If they ever get one, they better have a house, I won’t pay for it.
We aren’t dealing with gangsta’s, or thugs, or a bunch of bad apples. We are dealing with an entire people with a culture of habits, values, and morals completely different than our own. They are a borderless nation within ours. A foreign, alien people incompatible, hostile, and mortally dangerous to the rest of society.
Suicide is the fourth category
Unfortunately, “fatal mistakes” are limited to one per perp!
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