College ballplayer gunned down- Page 2

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 10:59am

In my home if you said you were bored you'd have to do a chore.

It sounds so simple, yet it's a great lesson. Good for both attitude adjustment and behavior patterns.

So many kids are "bored" and don't do chores anymore. Their parents either don't care or gave up trying. Nothing like no allowance, no Internet, and no TV to get them to come around quickly. And you have to start young, you can't wait until they're teens and suddenly change the rules.

I seriously do blame the parents. When the ages are this young for "bored murderers," it's the parents who should stand trial.

Updated On: 8/21/13 at 10:59 AM

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 11:03am

I completely and totally agree, Besty. And I hope no one interprets this the wrong way but I'm going to guess that it's tough to blame the parents when they're already absent. The number of kids coming from 'broken' homes these days is astonishing. Granted, I'm making assumptions but it's becoming more common..

[tazber]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 11:08am

This really has nothing to do with the parents needing to keep the kids busy with chores, activities etc.

It goes much much deeper than that. It has to with the parents not teaching the kids basic right and wrong. It's not like they were caught stealing or smoking weed. Lots of kids do those things and learn the hard way.

But they committed murder. The most heinous crime. And they give the impression that they don't understand the implications/consequences of taking a life.

[Kad]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 11:12am

When I was bored at that age (and I actually very rarely was, thanks to a pretty busy high school theatre schedule, then my first job, then other interests)- the thought of murdering someone never, ever crossed my mind. Because why would it? Why should it ever?

These kids seem like sociopaths. Like taz said, I'm not sure if this has much to do with society or a lack of activities. I think these were kids who were already screwed up.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 3:55pm

and all the pro gun people will start screaming that guns don't kill people...yeah, right...

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 10:24pm

Watched the news this evening, and the suspected shooter's mother said, "I know in my heart he did not pull the trigger."

Um no, dear, you should know in your heart that you raised a murderer.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 10:26pm

What is wrong with this world exactly?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 10:29pm

I heard this yesterday, and it makes me absolutely sick to my stomach.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/21/13 at 10:32pm

^That was my first reaction, fury was my second.

I hope the victim's family finds justice in this tragic moment in their lives.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 10:40am

Mr Roxy, here are two pages of outrage. Where is yours?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 10:45am

"Why was a 14-year-old boy out that late without his mother, Shanise Farrar, who called the shooting an assassination? Or his aunt, Quwana Barcene, who said the bloody gun police say was found near his body was part of a coverup? Where was the supervising adult who should have been with a 14-year-old boy walking the streets of New York at 3 o'clock in the morning?

Full Write Up

[javero]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 11:04am

"It goes much much deeper than that. It has to with the parents not teaching the kids basic right and wrong."

We cannot downplay the influence of criminal gangs on impressionable young minds. Gangs are pervasive. And many parents lose control of their kids to gangs after teaching them the basic right and wrong. The struggle is that many young boys somehow start equating gang culture with masculinity due to a number of reasons that I don't feel qualified to address.
Accused teen killer on Vine

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 11:11am

Australian news is reporting that James Edwards, the 15-year-old who is charged with 1st-degree murder, had Tweets like "90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM" and "With my niggas when it's time to start taken life's" on his Twitter feed, so they actually could declare it a hate crime.

https://twitter.com/JAMESAKABUG

Chilling 911 call details final moments of Melbourne baseballer Chris Lane's life

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 11:16am

Sickening. I'm speechless.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 2:40pm

Or randomly shoot a college student jogging down the street as entertainment -- though it seems the shooting may not have been as random as previously thought considering one of the suspects, who is black, tweeted that he hated white people back in April.

I originally posed the question about the murder being race-related, since the victim was white and the teens were black. I got the feeling it was more than a random shooting.

I am reminded of the case involving a Johns Hopkins Student who was stabbed 3 years ago while he was on the cell phone with his mother, walking back to his apartment. The perpetrators (a man and a woman) were black and the victim was white. At first, it seemed like a random robbery, since they took his phone and wallet, but it was eventually revealed that they purposely chose a white victim.

I remember being disturbed for days by this story because the young victim, Stephen Pitcairn, was a researcher who was assisting in breast cancer studies at Hopkins and was soon to enroll in medical school. His goal was to become a doctor and possibly cure cancer. Such a waste. Meanwhile, his murderers were low-life thugs with a long rap sheet who had nothing good to contribute to society.

Updated On: 8/22/13 at 02:40 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 5:13pm

nothing to see here, ladies and gentlemen, please move along. the nsa is watching your comments here, remember.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 5:37pm

I pity the public servant at the NSA who was assigned to monitor the posts on BroadwayWorld.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 7:10pm

Just got finished reading a Right Wing article saying that if he were armed, he wouldn't be dead now. They fail to realize he was jogging and was shot in the back, he had no idea anything was happening. I am telling you. I worry with the amount of stupid people there are out there!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 8:22pm

So, the school shooting that just happened, was stopped by someone without a gun...

Funny how none of the gun supporters aren't saying anything about that.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 8:25pm

Of course they wouldn't!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 8:29pm

If she'd been armed there would be FEWER than none dead.

People don't not kill people; guns don't not kill people.