Posted on 05/23/2015 10:29:52 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
He flashed gang signs in selfies, posted a photo of a Smith & Wesson on his Facebook page, and had a rap sheet even a veteran street gangster could be proud of. And now he’s been murdered — at age 14.
Bronx seventh-grader Christopher Duran was stalked and gunned down on a sidewalk near his Bronx home Friday morning — the victim, cops believe, of gang violence. “He was a gangbanger,” one law-enforcement source said of Christopher, a child known in his Morrisania neighborhood as already well on the road to doom when he was shot dead. “He terrorized the neighborhood,” said a woman who passed by the grim crime scene. “Christopher is no good,” another neighbor said. “I saw him fighting last summer in the street,” the man said. “We told them to quit fighting, but he would not listen. The person he was fighting wanted to quit, but he wouldn’t quit.” Christopher had been walking to school with his little brother just a few paces from his Sheridan Avenue doorstep when his killer — who had been lying in wait with a lookout posted down the block — pulled a gun. As the little brother watched, the gunman pumped a single bullet into Christopher’s neck, sources said.
The gunman then stood over the youth’s prone body and blasted away some more, striking the boy multiple times in the torso before he and the lookout both fled. Christopher was pronounced dead where he lay, in a pool of blood amid eight shell casings cast from a .45-caliber pistol, according to sources. The boy’s older brother is a “very active leader” in a notorious and violent gang known as 280, law-enforcement said. Police do not suspect that Christopher was mistaken for his brother.
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William Cullen Bryant was right, “Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again . . .” The Bible is right: Galatians 6:7 - “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
meanwhile, society suffers these ferals....
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