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Mom: 15-year-old son killed in North Chicago
Chicago Tribune ^ | April 18, 2014 | Lisa Black

Posted on 04/18/2014 7:41:58 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A North Chicago family is mourning the death of a 15-year-old boy who died early Thursday after being shot in the head and left in an alley, said the victim’s mother, Roxanne Beech.

Travon Beech was an eighth-grader at Neal Math & Science Academy who had enjoyed basketball and football until recently, when he started staying out late and getting in trouble, she said.

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To: wideawake

He may have flunked one grade. I flunked third grad.


21 posted on 04/18/2014 9:07:22 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: PLMerite

I thought I knew everything at about 19. That’s when it peaked and started dissipating. I remember literally thinking I was perfect, and if everyone was like me, the world would be perfect. I learned a lot when I looked into the perfect law of liberty.


22 posted on 04/18/2014 9:12:43 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ExCTCitizen

As someone already pointed out, we white folks have some pretty terrible names too. Hunter, Trapper, Brason, Grayson, Tanner, Madison, Dyson. They’re all Pajama Boy names.


23 posted on 04/18/2014 9:16:51 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ExCTCitizen

They all assume that these originate from happy Africa.


24 posted on 04/18/2014 10:09:56 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: latina4dubya

Bristol. Piper. Track. Willow. Trig.


25 posted on 04/19/2014 2:40:20 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: ExCTCitizen
When I was 15 I was in 11th.

Me too - most were in 10th and some, due to birthdays might have ended 9th. My birthday fell late in the year so I turned 16 before the Holiday Season.

26 posted on 04/19/2014 3:28:35 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Pollster1

Yep...and “Trapper” would fit right in!


27 posted on 04/19/2014 3:51:50 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: ConservativeStatement

Being shot in the head normaly means he was upfront and personal with his killer.

What’s an eigth grader hanging around a stone cold killer ?

Birds of a feather ?


28 posted on 04/19/2014 4:18:22 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeStatement
If only Chicago had one or two *really* good community organizers.
29 posted on 04/19/2014 6:20:56 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: ConservativeStatement
“He started getting in a lot of trouble. He slipped down a little. He was trying to do better,” she said. “He was a kid. He could have turned around and had a bright future.”

I'm sure Trayvon's Dad was doing his utmost to keep his son on the straight and narrow.

30 posted on 04/19/2014 6:25:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: wideawake

Several of my grandsons friends are almost 14 and in the seventh grade. They all go a private church school, are very polite, do well in school and great kids. Their parents chose to start them a year later. Great idea for boys IMO, particularly if they have a female teacher who has no male children or ever had a brother. None of these boys are on ADHD meds, unlike too many of the students in public schools who are 14 year olds in the eighth grade.


31 posted on 04/19/2014 6:48:41 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

No mourning for a dead tray table.


32 posted on 04/19/2014 10:18:24 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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