[DaveA37]

Why, when these young (but dumb) crminals get shot and killed are they always “great kids”, love to play basketball, on the honor roll, etc. etc.? Unfortunately, I do not feel sorry for them. They were potential criminals in the making. If they were so smart and such “great kids”, why the hell did they have to rob and beat someone?
Sorry, but they were not “heros” there in my book.

[elcid1970]

“He killed our BABIES!! He killed our BABIES!! Oh they was on their way to Bible study!!”

Watch for it.

Meanwhile, some data on the storekeeper’s gun?

[srmorton]

If you click on the link, you will see, as Dr. Phil often says, that “this was not their first rodeo”. They are implicated in at least two more robberies, both of which took place in April. In the comments to the article, there are Myspace pictures taken in the boys’ living room of Quinton brandishing the same gun used in the robberies. It's hard to believe the parents had no idea that their sons might be up to no good! Although I AM sorry at the absolute waste of two young promising lives, it appears that crime was not a onetime impulsive aberration but a deliberate choice made by these two young men.

[Lion Den Dan]

They were potential criminals in the making. If they were so smart and such “great kids”, why the hell did they have to rob and beat someone?

They were potential KILLERS who were not up to snuff; not great kids, not bubbaball stars and not up and coming scholars, they were petential killers who did not make the grade. Good riddance.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Guess the schools let anyone on the honor roll anymore.

[from occupied ga]

They were potential criminals in the making

I disagree with this. They weren't "potential" criminals. They were full blow actual criminals - felons - and they deserved what they got. I don't see any grief counseling or any sympathy for the real victim in this crime in any of these articles - the clerk who was being robbed was the victim here not the young a..hole thugs who got exactly what they deserved.