WWII vet dies in Spokane, WA, after beaten by teens outside arena

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SPOKANE, Wash. -

WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane on Wednesday evening.

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Belton, 89, died from the injuries he suffered in the beating Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Witnesses say Belton was in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge at 6410 N. Lidgerwood, adjacent to the Eagles Ice-A-Rena, around 8 p.m. Wednesday when the two male suspects attacked him as he was about to head inside to play pool.
Police responded with K-9s to track the suspects' scent but were not able to locate them.
"It does appear random. He was in the parking lot, it appears he was assaulted in the parking lot and there was no indication that he would have known these people prior to the assault," Spokane Police Major Crimes Detective Lieutenant Mark Griffiths said.
Belton died from his injuries Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
"Shorty," as he was known by his friends at the Eagles Lodge, served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII and was shot in the leg during the Battle of Okinawa. He went on to work at Kaiser Aluminum at the company's Trentwood plant for more than 30 years. Belton's wife passed away several years ago.
He loved playing pool, even though he claimed he was no good at it and had been a member of the Eagles Lodge for the last four months. In addition to playing pool he loved working on cars.
Shorty was Ted Denison's best friend of 23 years; the two played pool occasionally and worked on cars daily.
"He was always there for me when I needed him," Denison said. "We'd joke back and forth. We were always having fun, some sort of fun."
He was the kind of nice old man who'd become your friend in minutes.
"Probably every time I come into town, he'd have a project for me to do," Denison said. "I thought of him more as a dad than I did a friend really."
Now, with the suspects still at large and the Spokane Police Department working to track them down, Shorty's friends are hoping for justice.
"I don't understand how somebody could do this. I really don't," Denison said.
Spokane police are looking for two male suspects in the attack. They said the suspects are African Americans between 16 and 19 years old. One suspect was described as heavy set and wearing all black clothing. The other was described as being about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds. There was no description of what clothing the second suspect was wearing other than a silk do-rag.

Don't read the comments.... why do they think blacks are somehow telepathically connected to one another mentally... or why do whites still see race as a zero sum game.... Like 1964 resets 400 years before. That' aint even 50 years ago. Yet stay silent on the fact that only whites shoot up schools

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Not defendin these bytch ass nikkas at all. If the vet aint do nothin, they deserve they get life or the death penalty.

the bullshyt they prob posted on they FB/IG/Twitter

 

[MikelArteta]

please don't be black please don't be black




however i'm not judging, i remember up here years ago, this old racist cac called this black guy ****** he pushed the dude to the ground out of anger and dude died.

 

[Momentum]

*waits for mad white coli poster to post something along the lines of white oppression and random black crime are equal*

 

[I'm Billy FUCO!!]

R.I.P. Trayvon Martin.

 

[Mac]

Damn, damn, damn!!! Again? Why they beat the old man so bad though?

 

[OPTiMO]

race of the victim/suspects aside, because i dont give a shyt, that's some very cowardly shyt

 

[ROFL_GUY]

why do people do these things...


watch those in here will try to justify it too

 

[Crakface]

Whats the white on black/black on white violence score this year?

Yall should have just let Zimmerman go.

 

[Crakface]

cut their dikks off and make them fish with em.. then after they catch a fish shove it down their throat so they choke on their dikk and fish and DIE





they dont deserve to breathe the air i share

Why? Because they're black?

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Why? Because they're black?

yeah thats eexactly why (sarcasm) why dont we classify people as just people instead of going by their race/ethnicity whatever the fukk..

if they were eskimos or cacs or aliens they deserve the same treatment.. so you feel there should be different punishment for different races?

this loser and his 4 alias'

 

[Nintendough]

Embarrassing

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Why? Because they're black?

Nah cause that's some hoe ass shyt, that could have been my grandfather or your grandfather. If they was white I'd say the same thing. HOE ASS shyt. hell what if that was your grandmother?

 

[Crakface]

Nah cause that's some hoe ass shyt, that could have been my grandfather or your grandfather. If they was white I'd say the same thing. HOE ASS shyt. hell what if that was your grandmother?

yeah thats eexactly why

if they were eskimos or cacs or aliens they deserve to die.. so you feel there should be different punishment for different races?

this loser and his 4 alias'

Its the circle of life. Live by the sword die by the sword. A war veteran, the taker of lives abroad, meets his end domestically at the hand of angry black teens frustrated with the way justice is carried out in the country he swore to defend. Life is very poetic that way.

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

WW2 Veteran , young ignant hoodlums got to start picking out their marks better.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Its the circle of life. Live by the sword die by the sword. A war veteran, the taker of lives abroad, meets his end domestically at the hand of angry black teens frustrated with the way justice is carried out in the country he swore to defend. Life is very poetic that way.

I ain't going to agree or disagree with you, I'm a huge believer in Karma, but you better watch what comes out your mouth in real life and online, cause it can happen to you as well.