Chicago boy, 9, gunned down execution-style after tantrum over cupcake

[marcuz]

Yeah cops are gunning down 9 year olds. Smh, you guys are psychotic.

yeah white people would never do such a thing

 

[OatmealCreamPie]

on some conspiracy theory shyt, i think law enforcement has a lot to do with these type of shootings.

Yeah blame everyone but black men themselves.

 

[marcuz]

Yeah blame everyone but black men themselves.

do you know who the killer is or something?

 

[OatmealCreamPie]

do you know the killer is or something?

You can't even make up your mind on if you want to blame white men or black women for the choices of black men.

 

[Big Boda]

Yeah cops are gunning down 9 year olds. Smh, you guys are psychotic.

being black and trusting the cops in 2014 is psychotic.

 

[wheywhey]

Here is a timeline of events:

http://homicides.suntimes.com/2014/...reater-grand-crossing-shooting/#disqus_thread

Antonio Smith, 9, killed in Greater Grand Crossing shooting
Posted Aug. 21, 2014, 9:04 a.m. by Michael Lansu

BY JON SEIDEL AND MITCH DUDEK
Chicago Sun-Times

Antonio Smith wanted a cupcake.

He’d called his mom while she was on her way home from work, asking to have one.

She said no.

So the 9-year-old ran out of his family’s apartment in the 1100 block of East 73rd Street.

About half an hour later, he was on the way to the hospital, where he would die.

Chicago Police responding to a report of shots fired at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday found Antonio in the back yard of an apartment building in the 1200 block of East 71st Street in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

“He got mad because I didn’t give him what he wanted,” a somber Brandi Murry said Thursday afternoon, recounting what she knew of her son’s death.

After Antonio fled the apartment, his 12-year-old brother gave chase. But he wasn’t wearing shoes, and he quickly lost him, Murry said.

He returned to the apartment and called his mother about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday to tell her Antonio had run off, Murry said. She was nearby, so she looked, too.

When she couldn’t find him, she said, she called the police. That call was made at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday.

Five minutes later, the police were at her door, telling her she needed to get to the hospital.

Antonio was pronounced dead at Comer Children’s Hospital at 5:13 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He had been shot multiple times, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

“I just want whoever did it to turn themselves in, because he was a 9-year-old innocent baby and he didn’t deserve that,” the victim’s cousin, Rasheda Eggleston, told NBC Chicago.

“He was just a child, just a baby, had a whole life ahead of him,” another cousin, Kenya Eggleston, said.

Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina parish, urged people to gather for a prayer rally at 6 p.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of East 71st.

Pfleger said a $5,000 reward will be offered for information leading to the arrest of Smith’s killer.

The boy’s slaying “can’t be tolerated,” Pfleger said.

“Especially a 9-year-old child,” he said. “It’s just ridiculous.”

Cynthia Smith-Thigpen, who lives in the 1200 block of East 71st Street, said the 9-year-old boy was found on a concrete slab behind her home.

She said she didn’t know he was there until police came to her home. She said she was distracted by the TV and her two grandchildren, ages 2 and 6.

“It’s frightening to know that these things are happening around your house,” Smith-Thigpen said.

Smith-Thigpen said her 6-year-old has been asking to ride his bike behind her house. And she said her 86-year-old mother parks her car there.

“I’m glad I didn’t send my 6-year-old grandson out to empty the garbage,” Smith-Thigpen said. “He has a bike that he wants to ride outside. We bought it for him, but now we don’t even let him go outside because of all this shooting.”

Rosetta Jordan, 81, who lives on the block, said her son, Eddie Jordan, 45, heard gunshots. Before going out to investigate, he ordered his 9-year-old son to the basement where he would be safe from stray gunfire.

She said her son found a “neatly dressed” boy lying in the backyard of a neighboring apartment building.

“I’m still shaking,” Rosetta Jordan said Wednesday evening. “It’s just so sad.”

As Jordan stood at her front door, several police cars, with lights and sirens activated, rocketed past her home on three separate occasions.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Threads like this should do numbers just like anything else bad that happens to us. Unfortunately I've noticed that we only really get up for stuff like this if it's been verified that a white person was involved. Never fails. You can say that it's only a forum and isn't a representation...but it happens everywhere all the same. This didn't get the same coverage. And isn't getting the same attention as the Ferguson situation. And yet this is a 9 year old boy that has gotten smoked. Know what I think? I think it's a situation where folks have pretty decided it was one of us that took him out so...business as usual. It's a weird thing with our community. Even in death...we only really show up when a white is involved somehow.

I saw an article where a guy was saying that a recent death should get the same coverage as the Brown situation. Both involved were the same color though. I said in the back of my mind, sadly, that he could have saved his breath. That situation got buried too. I'm gonna try and find it and post it and ask the Coli Militants to explain this phenomenon.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I don't get it

 

[Cabbage Patch]

honestly I don't think its all black "thugs" doing the killing in chicago. police are known to agitate problems in inner cities to keep them prison profits up in the long run. IJS. I'm not about to assume a brother shot down this innocent boy especially not This week.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's been happening in Ferguson, to be honest.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Are these the last days that the Bible prophesized? WTF is goin on

Yeah because the holocost wasn't "the last days" , WWII wasn't "the last days" , slavery wasn't "the last days" but all of a sudden because smartphones and social media are exposing what's been going on since integration these days are the last ones?

I get that the "last days" thing is the bait that makes Christianity work but damn, let's be reality

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

Bringing more shame to the Black race

 

[Cabbage Patch]

whole story is confusing as hell. The boy was barefoot and got far enough for his mom to not hear any gun shots?

Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

 

[marcuz]

You can't even make up your mind on if you want to blame white men or black women for the choices of black men.

well, guess you're right. because i'm wondering why the mother allowed a 9 yr old to run out of the house to begin with. her story doesnt sound right either.

 

[LA Fisher]

well, guess you're right. because i'm wondering why the mother allowed a 9 yr old to run out of the house to begin with. her story doesnt sound right either.

Normally she would of given him the cup cake but she was busy getting smashed by her boyfriend and she didn't wanna get up and give it to him.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

About half an hour later, he was on the way to the hospital, where he would die.

Chicago Police responding to a report of shots fired at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday found Antonio in the back yard of an apartment building in the 1200 block of East 71st Street in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

“He got mad because I didn’t give him what he wanted,” a somber Brandi Murry said Thursday afternoon, recounting what she knew of her son’s death.

After Antonio fled the apartment, his 12-year-old brother gave chase. But he wasn’t wearing shoes, and he quickly lost him, Murry said.

He returned to the apartment and called his mother about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday to tell her Antonio had run off, Murry said. She was nearby, so she looked, too.

When she couldn’t find him, she said, she called the police. That call was made at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday.

Five minutes later, the police were at her door, telling her she needed to get to the hospital.

The family lives on the 1100 block. The gunshots and the boy were on the 1200 block.
His brother returned home and used his cell to call his mother at 3:45, so mama wasn't in the apartment and was still out looking.
The cops responded to a shooting at 4:05. (Were they responding, or were the shots fired at that time?)
Mama called the cops at 4:08.
The cops were at her door at 4:13.

So when did the shots happen? All the cupcake talk is obscuring some shyt, maybe even some shyt the mother told the press and/or the cops which ain't being printed. I don't know.

Are cops always that fast? Or were they actually slow?

Either way, that young man didn't have to die.