[Acura604]

So this is the world our kids are going to grow up in? no wonder most movies based in the future reflect a police state. I think we need it!


Teens killed baseball player just for fun: ‘We were bored and didn’t have anything to do’

(CNN) -- A random act of violence has left a promising 22-year-old college baseball player dead, a family devastated and two countries half a world apart rattled.

Christopher Lane, who's from Australia, was gunned down in Duncan, Oklahoma, while he was out jogging last week. The motive, police say? Three teens who had nothing better to do.

"They witnessed a young man run by on the street. Chose him as the target," Police Chief Danny Ford told CNN affiliate KSWO.

When police eventually arrested the three teens -- ages 15, 16 and 17 -- one of them offered up a motive that made clear that Lane, who attended East Central University on a baseball scholarship, was chosen at random.

"He said the motive was, 'We were going to kill somebody,'" Ford told Australian radio station 3AW.

"They decided all three of them were going to kill somebody."

Police say the teens shot Lane in the back in the town of about 24,000 and sped away in their car.

"There were some people that saw him stagger across the road, go to a kneeling position and collapse on the side of the road," Ford told KSWO.

Attempts to revive Lane failed.

Police caught the teens a few hours after the shooting. Thanks to security cameras from local businesses, police saw their car speeding down the street.

Nearly 10,000 miles away in Australia, Lane's family struggled to cope with the news.

"He's left his mark as we know, and you know there's not going to be any good come out of this, because it was just so senseless," Christopher's father, Peter Lane, said. "It's happened. It's wrong, and we're just trying and deal with it the best we can."

Lane's girlfriend Sarah Harper posted an emotional tribute on Facebook, saying "you will always be mine and in a very special and protected place in my heart."

[Soundy]

I am out of word...

[dinamix]

I'm glad oklahoma still has their death penalty
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[snails]

i think our justice system really needs to go back to the basics... we all know this will be a long trial "because of age" will cost tax payers huge amounts of money only for them to serve a max of 10 years each... get out and still have 2/3 of their lives left while the victims family/friends have to deal with this the rest of their lives...

I think laws and policies should be broken up in 2 ways:

1. simple, break the law, get fines/jail time

2. intentionally cause harm to others, that harm can be passed on to the offender.. then jail if they are still alive.


I am aware it sounds juvenile and stupid, but "jail" isnt enough incentive to not do fcked up shit like this...

clearly the system dosnt work that well, and people seem to be pushing the envelope more often as it is sensationalized on the media.

its too easy to get a slap on the wrist when you destroy peoples lives.

[Lomac]

The 16 and 17 year olds will likely be tried as adults, or at least the prosecution will go for that route. The 15 year old, though... you're probably right about him getting a few years in juvi, only to be released after half his sentencing.

[Gridlock]

Strengthen the family.

We need to get back to a point where children are being raised by a strong home, in a stronger community.

Everyone will get angry and turn to the justice system for the answer. It may help in this case, but will do nothing to the motivation that caused this crime in the first place.

[stewie]

Dumb ass kids...

Like dinamix said, thank god for the death penalty.
I'm all up for capital punishment. These kids robbed a family of their son, it should only be fair if their families were robbed of theirs.
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[snails]

reply for Grid.

I had a srs fcked up childhood.. might as well not had parents at all and the worse thing i have ever done was stolen a couple 5cent candies when i was a kid...

and i know people in "wholesome" families and these people have almost no remorse for others around them... lets not blame this one on the parents.

1 of these stupid kids obviously was the leader, and the other 2, probably the younger ones decided it was also a good idea in the moment...

already lost causes in society with nothing positive to provide...

[Soundy]

A "wholesome" family does not automatically mean good parenting...

[snails]

^ i was generalizing... either way, people have control over what they do. none of us need to be reminded that murder is a bad thing.

[stewie]

When parents use Xbox and ps3 as a babysitter and let their kids play gta, man hunt, and every other game where you can kill for fun for 15 hours a day, I'm not surprised.

Not saying this is the case here, but these kids seriously lack a role model.


Anyone gonna turn this into a 2nd amendment thread now?


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its a shame parents are no longer able to discipline their kids without having CPA involved...I remember getting the belt quite a bit...only took a few times before I learned better. now if a kid shows up to school with a damn bruise on his arm from rough housing while playing you'll get a meeting with a principle asking "is everything at home alright?"

[El Bastardo]

This is on par with those Ukrainian guys who murdered a guy for fun

[Stiig]

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[Acura604]

The accused:

The youths facing first-degree murder charges have been named as Chancey Luna, 16, James Edwards, 15, and Michael Jones, 17.

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[melloman]

When parents use Xbox and ps3 as a babysitter and let their kids play gta, man hunt, and every other game where you can kill for fun for 15 hours a day, I'm not surprised.

Not saying this is the case here, but these kids seriously lack a role model.


Anyone gonna turn this into a 2nd amendment thread now?


-edit

its a shame parents are no longer able to discipline their kids without having CPA involved...I remember getting the belt quite a bit...only took a few times before I learned better. now if a kid shows up to school with a damn bruise on his arm from rough housing while playing you'll get a meeting with a principle asking "is everything at home alright?"


Parents need to go back to the "old times" and beat their kids when they fuck up. They need to BE TAUGHT right from wrong, so this kind of stupid shit won't happen.

Hope these kids get 20+ years in prison. Fuck juvi, try them as adults.

[Anjew]

Try them as adults and put them in their own separate boxes. Show them what real boredom is like.

lets be realistic here, they are going to juvi or jail and they are going to make connections with real gangsters(or idiots) and go back on the street none the better. :okay:


what we need is a cryo prison with subconscious psycho rehab to instill those joy joy feelings. /jk

[4doorVIP]

3 black dudes kill 1 white dude..

if it was the other way around, there would be riots.
this should be a hate crime.

[dinosaur]

I know the content of this pic is unrelated, but I think it is a good representation how society looks at problem children these days.

Blame the music. Blame the news. Blame the movies. Blame the video games. Blame the friends.

DON'T blame the parents. Fuck taking ownership of how the child was raise. Fuck instilling a sense of responsibility. Fuck morals. Fuck ethics. Feed the kid more sugar than you can ever imagine then give the kid adderall to calm the fuck down. Replace spanking with a "calm down" mat because we don't want the kid calling the cops for child abuse. Hand power over to the kid because we don't want to be the "bad guy".

What is the result?

Generations full of self-entitled, uncontrollable shitheads who expects everything to be given to them and their shitty attitude who feel like they are completely invincible.

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[Gridlock]

its a shame parents are no longer able to discipline their kids without having CPA involved...

Someone would actually have to BE home to do that.

I'm not saying that's all parents, as a LOT of contributing factors come into play, namely, poverty being the biggest one.

[stewie]

Try them as adults and put them in their own separate boxes. Show them what real boredom is like.

lets be realistic here, they are going to juvi or jail and they are going to make connections with real gangsters(or idiots) and go back on the street none the better. :okay:


what we need is a cryo prison with subconscious psycho rehab to instill those joy joy feelings. /jk

so they can come out with useful skills such as knitting? :p

but yeah, generations are getting worse and worse. I think back to what is was like in the early 1900's..guys have manners and courtesy, they don't treat women like shit, they're polite....move on to the 20-30's at clubs...women wore dresses and men wore suits. 50's kids were a little more adventurous but their parents still kept them in line with a swift smack across the head. 70's...hello lsd and weed and shrooms...now you go to a club and women are dressed like skanky ass whores who'll sell themselves for free shots...cant wait to see how kids are in another 20 years lol

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Someone would actually have to BE home to do that.

I'm not saying that's all parents, as a LOT of contributing factors come into play, namely, poverty being the biggest one.

I understand that a parent needs to be home to discipline a child, and I know a lot of factors come into play, but as a parent they should at least have the common sense to teach their kid right from wrong at an early age and set them straight. if I was on welfare living in a 2 room basement suite while working 12 hours a day for minimum wage with 3 kids, id at least still teach them proper manners, and morals, and whats right vs whats wrong.

when I was growing up my parents weren't around during the day, so instead of me being home, my aunts and uncles would watch us (about 8 other cousins they'd watch at the same time as well lol), they'd have no problem smacking me. even if my parents had dumped me at the neighbors house, if they felt I deserved a punishment for doing something I did wrong, let them punish me(I wouldn't go as far as smacking a kid...but id make the kid do manual work...scrub the toilets in the house...give em a bottle of silvo/brasso and make them polish things. let the parents know what they did when they pick him up, and if they felt I wasn't punished enough, its up to them to continue with it).

when I have kids. those kids are going to be raised right no matter what my situation is.(I know its easy to say that now...but I wouldn't be afraid to ask for help from a neighbor or a family friend to help watch/discipline a kid when I couldn't be around)

[FerrariEnzo]

Wow.. messed up... bored so they just wanted to kill someone...

IMHO, they should just be tried as adults regardless of their age.. this is beyond what words can say... do you think they will learn their lesson in what they have done, i doubt they would if they just want to kill time and though of killing someone...

[JaPoola]

Hey look, three Treyvon Martin clones!!

[lowside67]

Hey look, three Treyvon Martin clones!!
You're a fucking idiot.

[murd0c]

This reminds me of the movie American Me. If you haven't seen it you should watch it. They deserve what they get and I don't feel sorry for them at all.

[4444]

3 black dudes kill 1 white dude..

if it was the other way around, there would be riots.
this should be a hate crime.

well, as far as we know, it's not a hate crime - they were going to kill someone, not a white someone (which would be a hate crime)

but i agree, the other way around, there'd be a whole different type of outrage

[pastarocket]

This is a horrific story! R.I.P. to Mr. Lane.

[Drow]

Hey look, three Treyvon Martin clones!!

:lawl:

[Soundy]

Hey look, three Treyvon Martin clones!!

You know, my first thought on seeing the pics were "here come the Treyvon comparisons/jokes/etc." It's a little disturbing, how familiar RS has become...

[ts14]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwg6i8oZFq1qzjix8.gif

RIP Mr.Lane

i dont want to live on this planet anymore

[Phil@rise]

3 black dudes kill 1 white dude..

if it was the other way around, there would be riots.
this should be a hate crime.

Hate crimes dont happen against white people unless they are :nyan:.

[Iceman-19]

Im sorry, what? You think we need a police state? Are you fucking retarded? Yeah what they did was fucked up, but the only reason this is in the news is because he was going to be a star baseball player. If he was anyone else, it wouldn't even have made the news.

[Gridlock]

You know, my first thought on seeing the pics were "here come the Treyvon comparisons/jokes/etc." It's a little disturbing, how familiar RS has become...

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A new book by Gridlock, with exciting foreword by JasonS2000.

[Nightwalker]

I almost got jumped by some townies one night like this. They just decided they'd look for someone to beat up.

[DanHibiki]

Wtf?!?!?
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[BoostedBB6]

I'm with Snails on this one.

Eye for an eye, bring that shit back.
You kill some random person for no good reason (read: not in defence of your life or anothers life) there family should choose your fate.

There is no possible excuse for these kids, no video games, no tv, no bad parenting. Society blames there actions on outside sources, yet I have never seen a fork make someone fat. Sure, parents put there kinds in front of TV's and buy them violent video games. Kids go and play games where they pretend to kill one another. Kids have done these things since the beginning of time.
You and ONLY you are responsible for your actions, blame whatever you want but no video game made you pull a trigger.

People CHOOSE to do these things, its not a matter of "I had a shit childhood and I had anger issues".
Good for you, my best friend was beaten ever day for 6 years by his dad. Broke ever rib he has, multiple concussions, had to learn to cook at 5 so he could eat, around drug addicts while growing up. But guess what, he knows right from wrong and is one of the most morally grounded people I know.

Its cut and dry, these boys want to be men, so try them as men and fry them as men.

[iEatClams]

When I first heard about this, my friends and I talked about us being in a room with these guys with us having baseball bats and going nuts on these animals.

I'm not sure if that makes us animals too or if that's morally wrong, but it sure would make me feel better, not good, but better about the situation.

Wonder if other people would do the same if you had the chance to go after these kids with a baseball bat and no legal repercussions?

[Gridlock]

When I first heard about this, my friends and I talked about us being in a room with these guys with us having baseball bats and going nuts on these animals.

I'm not sure if that makes us animals too or if that's morally wrong, but it sure would make me feel better, not good, but better about the situation.

Wonder if other people would do the same if you had the chance to go after these kids with a baseball bat and no legal repercussions?

One of the great philosophical questions that would do socrates proud.
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[mac25]

America teaches their kids to hate, to hate the world around them, to fear everything, to love weapons and killing. they tell their children that America has the wright to do what ever it wants to who ever they want and police the world. after all the mass shootings, the wars and terror attacks when while they learn, that guns are not toys and lives aren't theirs to rule?

[stewie]

Never.

They've a right to bear arms, so don't expect them to give that up any time soon lol
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[noclue]

America teaches their kids to hate, to hate the world around them, to fear everything, to love weapons and killing. they tell their children that America has the wright to do what ever it wants to who ever they want and police the world. after all the mass shootings, the wars and terror attacks when while they learn, that guns are not toys and lives aren't theirs to rule?

I guess all those shitty schools in the states like some shithole called harvard and stanford brainwashes its students to be right-wing american loving nuts.

If you have 330 million people in a country incidents like these occur more frequently.

[vafanculo]

When I first heard about this, my friends and I talked about us being in a room with these guys with us having baseball bats and going nuts on these animals.

I'm not sure if that makes us animals too or if that's morally wrong, but it sure would make me feel better, not good, but better about the situation.

Wonder if other people would do the same if you had the chance to go after these kids with a baseball bat and no legal repercussions?

It wouldn't make you animals. Even if it did, animals are a step higher than these guys. Animals kill for a reason. Hunger or protection. These guys killed for the reason of: not having anything better to do.

You'd kill a dog if it killed someone. Taking a bat to these guys, should be legally allowed.

In cases like these, and massacres, they shouldn't be treated normally. Make an example...hand them to Syrians, Iraqis.. Contract their stoning if we're too pussy to do it ourselves.
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[Acura604]

On Tuesday Aug 20, three teenagers appeared in court charged over the attack, which came one day before they were due to return to school.

James Edwards Jr., 15, and Chancey Luna, 16, were charged as adults with felony murder in the first degree, according to Kaylee Chandler, Stephens County Court clerk.

Michael Jones, 17, faces two charges -- use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree.

[snails]

^ and they still deserve their fingers cut off with a rusty pair of snips..

[dinosaur]

^ and they still deserve their fingers cut off with a rusty pair of snips..

oh man, that totes gave me the heebie jeebies!

[westopher]

Well, 3 hard ass little motherfuckers are about to see how fucking hard they really are when they get assraped and tortured by some real gangsters in prison. I can't fucking wait til one of these fucks feels what its like to get a rusty blade stuck into them.

[CorneringArtist]

It ends with prison shanking, it starts with this
Kool-Aid Lips - YouTube
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[Lomac]

On Tuesday Aug 20, three teenagers appeared in court charged over the attack, which came one day before they were due to return to school.

James Edwards Jr., 15, and Chancey Luna, 16, were charged as adults with felony murder in the first degree, according to Kaylee Chandler, Stephens County Court clerk.

Michael Jones, 17, faces two charges -- use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree.

Glad to hear all three got charged as adults. Was expecting only the 16 and 17 year old to be.

[stewie]

I wouldn't be surprised if they go to prison, last 2 days before they join some gang and have to stab/fight/kill someone else just so their gang will protect them...
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[Lomac]

America teaches their kids to hate, to hate the world around them, to fear everything, to love weapons and killing. they tell their children that America has the wright to do what ever it wants to who ever they want and police the world. after all the mass shootings, the wars and terror attacks when while they learn, that guns are not toys and lives aren't theirs to rule?

So what schools in the USA did you attend? I'm curious to hear how it differs from the rest of the schools down south...

[FerrariEnzo]

On Tuesday Aug 20, three teenagers appeared in court charged over the attack, which came one day before they were due to return to school.

James Edwards Jr., 15, and Chancey Luna, 16, were charged as adults with felony murder in the first degree, according to Kaylee Chandler, Stephens County Court clerk.

Michael Jones, 17, faces two charges -- use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree.
So that means the 15/16 year old will face death penalty and the 17 year just goes to jail?

[CorneringArtist]

Due to their ages, they supposedly will not face the death penalty.
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[dinosaur]

Yeah, I'm kinda not for the death penalty for 15 year olds...

[Gridlock]

So what schools in the USA did you attend? I'm curious to hear how it differs from the rest of the schools down south...

It was in Death Valley...

[Iceman-19]

Yeah, I'm kinda not for the death penalty for 15 year olds...

Might as well. There is no rehabilitation in the US jail system. The only thing those kids are going to learn in there is how to become harder criminals.

[westopher]

So that means the 15/16 year old will face death penalty and the 17 year just goes to jail?
wut. It says faces two charges on top of the murder charge. Its written fairly poorly though. None will get the death penalty though I'd wager.

[Yodamaster]

I blame the parents.

Serious, parenting has gone out the fucking window, it's no wonder kids turn out like this.

[Sid Vicious]

I blame the parents.

Serious, parenting has gone out the fucking window, it's no wonder kids turn out like this.

idk about that, alot of sociopaths and murderers have fairly normal parents and upbringing. when you have people this fucked, its a good chance theres something inherently wrong with their genetics, cognitive processes, or physiology or some combination thereof

[Traum]

^ and they still deserve their fingers cut off with a rusty pair of snips..
Instead of fingers, I prefer to see another appendage to be cut off instead...

[subordinate]

I blame the parents.

Serious, parenting has gone out the fucking window, it's no wonder kids turn out like this.

Like Sid Vicious said.

The development of a child is an accumulation of everything.
His parents, friends, tv, brain functions, etc.

And hasn't crime been going down? Shit like this will always happen, no need to beat a dead horse.

There are just some people out there that like to see the world burn.

[Anjew]

Instead of fingers, I prefer to see another appendage to be cut off instead...

it may calm all the aggression they seem to have. :lawl:

We already know how ineffective sending them to prison for life would be.

[Acura604]

CNN) -- One of the Oklahoma teenagers accused of killing 23-year-old Australian Christopher Lane had previously posted images online showing himself posing with guns and wads of cash.

And three days before what police call the indiscriminate shooting, the suspect, 15-year-old James Edwards Jr., tweeted, "With my n****s when it's time to start taken life's."

Back in April, he tweeted, "90% of white ppl (people) are nasty. #HATE THEM."

Police in the town of Duncan have charged Edwards and Chancey Luna, 16, as adults with felony murder in the first degree, said Kaylee Chandler, a Stephens County court clerk.

Christopher Lane, from Australia, was gunned down in Duncan, Oklahoma, while he was out jogging last week. Police say he was killed by three teens who said they had nothing better to do. Police have now charged the three teens in Lane's death.


Michael Jones, 17, faces two charges: use of a vehicle and discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree.

James Edwards Jr., 15, has been charged as an adult with felony murder in the first degree.

Chancey Luna, 16, has been charged as an adult with felony murder in the first degree.


Michael Jones, their alleged 17-year-old driver, faces two charges: use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree.

A judge set bond at $1 million for Jones, while no bond was set for Edwards and Luna, Chandler said.

Police say it was Jones who ultimately told them, "We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody."

Lane was a promising young athlete, living his dream of studying in the United States on a baseball scholarship.

The people of Duncan, an affluent town of less than 25,000 people, welcomed him.

Lane had gone out for a jog, just at the time the teens had decided to find someone to kill, police say.

They drove their car behind him and opened fire, hitting him once in the back, authorities say.

He staggered across the road and fell to his knees, then managed to get up and take a few more steps before collapsing for good.

A woman who saw him struggling called 911. As she waited for an ambulance, the young man started to turn blue.

"If you don't hurry, he's gone," the woman warned.

But it was too late. The ambulance couldn't save Lane. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Officer: Teens wanted to be gangsters
Security camera, call to police aided investigation

Immediately after the shooting, witnesses gave police a general description of a black car. Security footage from a nearby Mexican restaurant showed what could have been the car. But hours passed with no sign of whether there would be another killing.

Then, four hours after the shooting, a man called police, saying he could see three juveniles with guns -- and they apparently want to kill someone, said Duncan police Chief Danny Ford.

Officers responded to a home and found the car in a church parking lot across the street from the caller's house. The suspects were inside, and they provided enough information to be arrested.

Two days later, Edwards offered up details of the case, police said. The teens had been inside a house when Lane ran by, and the group decided he'd be the target -- to cure their boredom, Ford says.

Call for U.S. tourism boycott

"It is another example of murder mayhem on Main Street," former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer told CNN's Piers Morgan.

"People thinking of going to the U.S.A. for business or tourist trips should think carefully about it, given the statistical fact you are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the U.S.A. than in Australia, per capita."

[AzNightmare]

WTF. What happened to, bored and nothing to do, so we decided to play some GTA.
Guess the graphics weren't good enough... :pokerface:

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

When I first heard about this, my friends and I talked about us being in a room with these guys with us having baseball bats and going nuts on these animals.

I'm not sure if that makes us animals too or if that's morally wrong, but it sure would make me feel better, not good, but better about the situation.

Wonder if other people would do the same if you had the chance to go after these kids with a baseball bat and no legal repercussions?

you just answered why they went out and killed someone.

they felt something, and they wanted to do something to feel better. so they did it.

you feel something, and you wanna do something to feel better, so you do it.

same thing.

with your mentality, put into their perspective/situation, you would have killed someone out of boredom too.

you do shit, to make yourself feel better. you want revenge, they want to get out of boredom. the inherit problem is following your primal feelings and not using your head. the same problem occurs in your post about beating them up with no legal repercussions. you are repeating the same mistake they did.

[ShadowBun]

WTF. What happened to, bored and nothing to do, so we decided to play some GTA.
Guess the graphics weren't good enough... :pokerface:

should've waited for GTA V
out so soon too.... :badpokerface:

[$_$]

These type of people might just end up enjoying prison life more than a normal life anyways. They are so engrained with the concept of the life of crime that some people feel more comfortable behind bars. And when they get out, they get so "bored" that they do these type of things just go feel normal again. But I guess we as a society end up having to feed them for the rest of their lives.

[Gucci Mane]

idk about that, alot of sociopaths and murderers have fairly normal parents and upbringing. when you have people this fucked, its a good chance theres something inherently wrong with their genetics, cognitive processes, or physiology or some combination thereof

theres that and the fact that a lot of these kids are "fuck ups" because their parents are "fuck ups" themselves. its a classic case of "fuck ups" raising "fuck ups". theres way too much of this going on in the states. its mind blowing actually. for that reason, abortions should seriously be funded by the government and free for low income people. these kinds of people having kids are unfit for parenting, they simply cant provide for a child the way one should. oh and the foster care systems in the states dont work worth a damn. a lot of those kids still end up worse off because of abusive foster parents.

[Anjew]

WWII vet Delbert Belton, 88, beaten to death by teens in Spokane - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/world-war-vet-beating-death/)

Spokane Police are looking for two suspects in the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Delbert "Shorty" Belton was a World War II vet
He was shot in the leg during the Battle of Okinawa
Police are looking for two suspects
They are described as "two young African American males"

WWII vet Delbert Belton, 88, beaten to death by teens in Spokane, Washington
By Ed Payne and Amanda Watts, CNN
updated 4:47 AM EDT, Fri August 23, 2013

(CNN) -- An 88-year-old World War II veteran was brutally beaten and left for dead by two teens outside a lounge in Spokane, Washington, where he loved to go play pool.
The motive? Police don't have one. The teens appeared to have picked him at random, authorities say.
Delbert Belton, a retired aluminum company worker, served in the Pacific. There, friends say, he took a bullet in the leg during the Battle of Okinawa.
He survived that attack.
Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten to death by two teens in Spokane, Washington.
But Wednesday night, Belton -- affectionately called "Shorty" by friends for his height -- headed to the Eagles Lodge where he was a regular.
Police found him in the parking lot, with serious head injuries. He died Thursday.
"It does appear random," Spokane police Lt. Mark Griffiths told reporters. "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."
It's the second time in a week that a seemingly random attack by teenagers has claimed a life.
On August 16, a 23-year-old Australian baseball player attending college in Oklahoma was gunned down in the town of Duncan.
One of three teens police arrested in that shooting said they carried it out because "we were bored and didn't have anything to do."
'All there is is bad news'
The randomness of the two attacks was not lost on Ted Denison, who's been friends with Belton for a long time.
"It's really depressing," Denison told CNN late Thursday night. "Seems that all there is is bad news."
The two men met more than 20 years ago and worked on cars together.
"We were mechanic buddies," the 42-year-old Denison said. "We just kind of kicked right along."
But the friends also hung out together outside the garage.
"We went dancing on Saturday nights," Denison said. "We went out to breakfast together."
Belton stopped by the Eagles Lodge two or three times a week. He played pool, but by his own admission, wasn't too good at it.
"He went up there and played pool, met with some of the guys he used to work with at Kaiser Aluminum," where he was employed more than 30 years, Denison said.
His wife died several years ago. The WW II vet is survived by a son, 65.
Waiting for a friend
Wednesday night, Denison was outside the lodge waiting for a friend because he didn't want her to walk home alone, Lillian Duncan told the Spokesman-Review newspaper.
"He was so awesome," Duncan told the paper. "Anybody that didn't get to know him missed out on a wonderful angel in their life."
Police are looking for two suspects. Witnesses described them as "young African American males of average build," according to a police statement.
Officers used K-9 search dogs to search for the suspects, swept for fingerprints on the chain link fence in the area where they were last seen headed, and scoured through surveillance tapes.
So far, the attackers haven't been found.
Outside the lodge Thursday, friends and strangers alike left flowers, flags and messages for Belton.
Belton never had problems outside the lodge before -- no threats, no altercations, Denison said.
"If he had, I would have made sure I was there."

[Psykopathik]

i you don't think killing another person for fun is wrong, you shouldn't be allowed out in public.

this isnt even something you need to teach people. these fuckers should be executed immediately.

[Ferra]

you just answered why they went out and killed someone.

they felt something, and they wanted to do something to feel better. so they did it.

you feel something, and you wanna do something to feel better, so you do it.

same thing.

with your mentality, put into their perspective/situation, you would have killed someone out of boredom too.

you do shit, to make yourself feel better. you want revenge, they want to get out of boredom. the inherit problem is following your primal feelings and not using your head. the same problem occurs in your post about beating them up with no legal repercussions. you are repeating the same mistake they did.
woah, that's deep brah:notbad:

[ZN6]

Video: Tough Love Or Too Much? 25-Year-Old Beats On His 17-Year-Old Cousin's Rib Cage Till He Cries For Stealing A PS3 & Acting Hard About It On Facebook!

The world needs discipline dispensed like the above video.

Parents are scared shit-less of child protection services for laying some decent discipline on their kids. No punishment = no fear of committing shit like this.

[rsx]

you just answered why they went out and killed someone.

they felt something, and they wanted to do something to feel better. so they did it.

you feel something, and you wanna do something to feel better, so you do it.

same thing.

with your mentality, put into their perspective/situation, you would have killed someone out of boredom too.

you do shit, to make yourself feel better. you want revenge, they want to get out of boredom. the inherit problem is following your primal feelings and not using your head. the same problem occurs in your post about beating them up with no legal repercussions. you are repeating the same mistake they did.

Isn't that a bit far fetched?
Killing someone or an animal isn't equal to "boredom" or just doing it to feel good.

There are scenarios where killing something/someone is appropriate. ie: self defense, hunting an animal for food, eliminating a threat to society, etc. It's not just because of boredom. By your logic, all those who fought and killed people in WW2 were just doing it because they were bored and they wanted to feel better.
just my .02

[dinamix]

you just answered why they went out and killed someone.

they felt something, and they wanted to do something to feel better. so they did it.

you feel something, and you wanna do something to feel better, so you do it.

same thing.

with your mentality, put into their perspective/situation, you would have killed someone out of boredom too.

you do shit, to make yourself feel better. you want revenge, they want to get out of boredom. the inherit problem is following your primal feelings and not using your head. the same problem occurs in your post about beating them up with no legal repercussions. you are repeating the same mistake they did.


Thats a stupid way of looking at it. Eye for an eye . Its only fair game. Not because of boredom

[Soundy]

Christopher Lane, from Australia, was gunned down in Duncan, Oklahoma, while he was out jogging last week. Police say he was killed by three teens who said they had nothing better to do.
Well, at least now they'll have plenty to do for the next 25-years-to-life.

Call for U.S. tourism boycott

"It is another example of murder mayhem on Main Street," former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer told CNN's Piers Morgan.

"People thinking of going to the U.S.A. for business or tourist trips should think carefully about it, given the statistical fact you are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the U.S.A. than in Australia, per capita."
:seriously: :facepalm:

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

Isn't that a bit far fetched?
Killing someone or an animal isn't equal to "boredom" or just doing it to feel good.

There are scenarios where killing something/someone is appropriate. ie: self defense, hunting an animal for food, eliminating a threat to society, etc. It's not just because of boredom. By your logic, all those who fought and killed people in WW2 were just doing it because they were bored and they wanted to feel better.
just my .02

Thats a stupid way of looking at it. Eye for an eye . Its only fair game. Not because of boredom

i don't think you two understood what i said.