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.
I was checking to see if anyone else had pointed that out.
When Mom’s got one last-name and the kid’s got another, it tends not to end well.
It would only have been a matter of time before this "child" committed another act of crime and possibly killed an innocent person. HE was NOT innocent.
I have never seen any group perfect the art of making excuses for bad behavior anywhere near the skill level of blacks. Nothing they do is bad or their fault...always that of others.
The other perp can and probably will be charged with felony murder for his partners death.
CC
She’s too stupid to be an idiot.
I’m pretty sure we’ve all done something that could cost us our lives at the age of 16.
Yeah, like I joined the Navy and went to VietNAMMMM. Learn how to use all kinds of firearms. Got out at 20 and went to college.
I believe that all the parents of 16 year olds that I know have a certainty that their children will not be committing any armed robberies in their absence.
The black community with their systems of protecting criminals are reaping what they've sown...once again. It's hard to pull up pity for folks who endlessly repeat the same dysfunctional choices - then blame everyone but themselves - - "nobody snitchin'" is part of that...
Has a democrat or poverty pimp come forth to blame guns or whites? Or recommended a 'march'...
Well, legally it IS a homicide, as opposed to, say, an accident. Justifiable homicide, from all I’ve read of the matter.
The article did not say the store owner was CHRAGED with homicide.
“He was just a child trying to be a teenage,”
Sure we all robbed stores at gun point as we grew up. What an alibi!
The town where I grew up was the same way. I had grandparents and grandparents living in the same little town and they knew everybody.
Every death is classified as accident, natural causes, or homicide. If somebody is killed intentionally it is homicide. No value judgment, that’s what it is.
He was just trying to be a teenage! Leave Brittiney alone!
Hmmm. The only conclusion I can come to is that the store owner is black like the perps.
surely, this is satire...
A deadly, stupid choice is trying to leap off a hundred foot cliff and see if you'll live....or trying to rob a store at gunpoint when there's a good chance the owner is armed.
Probably doing time for murder and armed robbery. Either that, or "he daid."
Only four times. Must have been a revolver.
I guess the store owner should have just let himself get shot.
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