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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lawyer for officer who shot 18-year-old suggests he was lured to the gas station near Michael Brown scene
2014-12-25
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK]
  • Antonio Martin, 18, was shot and killed outside a gas station in St Louis, Missouri around 11pm on Tuesday
  • The scene is just three miles from where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson in August
  • Martin was killed by a police officer who was responding to a call in the area about a robbery
  • The unnamed officer climbed out of his car to speak to two men and as he spoke to the other man, Martin pulled out a gun and pointed it at the officer, who then pulled out his weapon and fired, police said
  • Police Chief Jon Belmar said it didn't have to end with the boy's death, but he made 'bad choices'
  • Detectives investigating the shooting said they recovered a 9mm firearm at the scene
  • Authorities are still looking for the man who was with Martin; he fled after the shooting
  • Mrs Martin denied that her son was carrying a firearm last night and say he was shot as he tried to run away
  • After the shooting, as many as 300 people gathered at the scene and people detonated explosives, police said; four people were arrested and at least two officers were injured
  • Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins said the situation should not draw comparisons with Ferguson, which did not have surveillance footage of the incident and where there are far fewer black police officers
Posted by:Fred

#17  Huffington Post:

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story included an interview with a man claiming to have been at the scene of the shooting and friends with the deceased. As police have released statements saying the second person involved in the incident has fled the scene, the source is now suggesting he was never there.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-25 23:09  

#16  It sounds as if the kid and his buddy were looking to become cop killers that night. Not sure why they thought being a cop killer or dead was a good situation to put themselves in. How would the mom have known if the kid was armed? Did she give him the once over with a detection wand before handing over the car keys?
Posted by: Super Hose   2014-12-25 20:06  

#15  Yes DINDU! Very logical. I get it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-12-25 19:20  

#14  RE: #7, None of my Bing Crosby albums have any songs about toting a 9mm on Christmas Eve. Must be one of those cultural differences I need to appreciate.

This reminds me of a story my dad told me. On Christmas Day, 1943, my dad was topside on an LST going from the New Guinea staging area to Cape Gloucester. The Chaplain tried to get some Christmas carols going, but they kept sputtering out. Then someone started singing, "Pistol Packing Momma," and everyone joined in with gusto. Calmed pre-invasion nerves.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-12-25 19:06  

#13  Oh, yeah - another DINDU ... as in "He/I dindu nuffin'!"
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2014-12-25 18:49  

#12  Paul Drake can be seen in the background in a '61 Thunderbird.

Ship, was Della Street in the car with him?

regular joe, neither do my Nat King Cole albums.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-12-25 17:10  

#11  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree?

I hear of multi generation gangster families.
Posted by: James   2014-12-25 13:28  

#10  The "mother" probably sports as many gang tattoos as the spawn.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2014-12-25 12:47  

#9  Ditto Frank. He was certainly well on his way. Tragically, so many never survive the initial neighborhood hoodlum credentialing process.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-12-25 12:39  

#8  The victim had a record of three armed assaults and other charges for theft since he turned 17

yep - just turning his life around
Posted by: Frank G   2014-12-25 12:32  

#7  There's always a silver lining. At least the family of the perp does not have to endure another Christmas worrying what type of mischief the evil little fok will get into next.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-12-25 12:21  

#6  None of my Bing Crosby albums have any songs about toting a 9mm on Christmas Eve. Must be one of those cultural differences I need to appreciate.
Posted by: regular joe   2014-12-25 12:12  

#5  If it wasn't for the video her narrative would be the active narrative right now. More proof the cops were way to slow after the Michael Brown incident.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-12-25 12:03  

#4  Making false statements - obstruction of justice charges. Make'm stick enough, a lot of this crap will go away. "But she's grieving" is not an excuse to violate the law.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-12-25 08:26  

#3  No, she looked at the 12th or occulted video, which plainly shows Godzilla dropping a cold weapon at the scene. Paul Drake can be seen in the background in a '61 Thunderbird.

Posted by: Shipman   2014-12-25 08:21  

#2  Mrs Martin denied that her son was carrying a firearm last night and say he was shot as he tried to run away

Was she there?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-12-25 08:00  

#1  Mrs Martin denied that her son was carrying a firearm last night and say he was shot as he tried to run away

Motherly love - one of the wonders of the universe. You could commit atrocities and genocide but your mom would still stick up for you.

cue "I Fought The Law And The Law Won"
Posted by: SteveS   2014-12-25 00:41  

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