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St. Louis teenager suspected of 'knockout game' violence picks wrong victim (Photos)
St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 21 February, 2012 | Kurt Hofmann

Posted on 02/23/2013 7:21:35 AM PST by marktwain

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) says that limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds is "generous"--his "generosity" falls far short, when one is attacked by two dozen feral, brutal thugs Credit: Photos © Oleg Volk. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

A local 15-year-old, Demetrius Murphy, was shot and killed last Friday while allegedly breaking into a home. Another case of a young man--our very future--tragically taken from us as a consequence of one bad decision on his part? Perhaps not, according to Fox 2 St. Louis:

In fact, FOX2 has learned, he was once charged in the case that made the phrase “knockout game” common in St. Louis.

Demetrius Murphy, 15, died Friday morning after he and another teen, Michael Bryant, allegedly tried to break into a man’s home on Tennessee. Police say the homeowner emerged with a gun. Bryant ran, but they say Murphy confronted him and was shot and killed.

We have talked about the "knockout game" before, after a mob of feral teenagers, allegedly including young Demetrius, put a man, Matt Quain, in intensive care--just for "fun." For those unfamiliar with this form of "recreation," here is Wikipedia's entry about it, and this is how St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner described it then:

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: banglist; demetrius; demetriusmurphy; guncontrol; knockout; mo; secondamendment
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Demetrius will not be accused of any knockout killings that happen in the future.
1 posted on 02/23/2013 7:21:46 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Nor will his sorry ass be missed.


2 posted on 02/23/2013 7:26:29 AM PST by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: marktwain
Demetrius Murphy.

Not doubt he was part Greek, part Irish...or as Obama would say, Grecian-Irish.

3 posted on 02/23/2013 7:27:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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Demetrius Murphy, was shot and killed last Friday while allegedly breaking into a home. Another case of a young man--our very future

"Our very future"??? - Durbin is a moron. What would he do if this punk were invading HIS home?

4 posted on 02/23/2013 7:28:10 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: marktwain
Good shooting citizen.

5.56mm

5 posted on 02/23/2013 7:29:04 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Wordkraft

Good riddance to bad trash!


6 posted on 02/23/2013 7:29:29 AM PST by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: marktwain

The very fact that Senator Dick is comfortable using the term “generous”, is quite telling.

Dick, you are NOT “GIVING” me ANYTHING!

You are attempting to RESTRICT a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT!


7 posted on 02/23/2013 7:32:30 AM PST by G Larry
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To: marktwain

“He was a good boy, he was thinking about going to school and becoming a rapper”
Oh, he left behind 3 children.


8 posted on 02/23/2013 7:32:47 AM PST by Vinnie (A)
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"Not doubt he was part Greek, part Irish..."

LOL...I made that same observation here a week ago when this story first went up.

I guess the Amish can't have all the fun.

9 posted on 02/23/2013 7:36:32 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Vinnie
becoming a rapper

I love it . . . this "rapping" as an art is just plain stupid. All ya' gotta' do is talk fast and incomprehensibly, slouch over like a baboon, and spread your fingers into various signs.

How in the hell did "rapping" become a vocational star to seek? Just mindless!

Golly, a plumber, machinist, teacher, etc., wouldn't do, huh . . . gotta' be a rapper!

10 posted on 02/23/2013 7:39:43 AM PST by laweeks
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Leave it to the Daily Mail to tell us poor black Demetrius, (killed by a white man naturally) was a retard, omit his knockout-game playing past and then lock the comments section to prevent any clarification on the issue.

Homeowner shoots dead 'mentally disabled' 15-year-old burglar in his backyard during botched break-in

11 posted on 02/23/2013 7:40:48 AM PST by Drew68
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Bookmarking


12 posted on 02/23/2013 7:44:49 AM PST by RandallFlagg
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To: laweeks

Apparently black kids in da ‘hood can only be rappers or basketball players. Seems kind of limiting, but there it is.


13 posted on 02/23/2013 7:46:32 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: marktwain

More gun owners need to start playing the Make My Day, Punk! “game”.


14 posted on 02/23/2013 7:49:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for Americans to stand up to the public servants! This is OUR country!)
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To: laweeks

A rapper was shot on the Vegas strip the other night. News reported he was also a pimp, but, oh he was a struggling rapper.
Here is what his father had to say...

Kenny Clutch’s YouTube music video, “Stay Schemin,” shows scenes of hotels along the Strip as he sings about paying $120,000 for his Maserati.

Cherry Sr. said he didn’t know how his son made money or if he had any other jobs.

“I want to make it clear that my son was no gangster or nothing like that,” he told The Associated Press. “He moved to Vegas about six year ago and he was writing music and rap.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/23/aspiring-rapper-in-fiery-vegas-crash-sang-haunting-lyric/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Ljnw4iQF


15 posted on 02/23/2013 7:50:54 AM PST by sweetiepiezer
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To: marktwain

My how times have changed. When I was 15 I better dam well be in my bed at 1:30 am or all hell would’ve broke loose.


16 posted on 02/23/2013 7:51:20 AM PST by sheana
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To: marktwain
And I'm supposed to care about any events in the black community, why?
17 posted on 02/23/2013 7:53:39 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: Drew68

“Botched Break In”. Liberal way of saying the thug was unfairly unsuccessful at getting away with it. One less criminal on the streets.


18 posted on 02/23/2013 7:54:48 AM PST by petercooper
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To: marktwain

Wait a minute! Are you telling me there’s an Amish settlement in St. Louis????? Come on!


19 posted on 02/23/2013 7:57:34 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: sweetiepiezer

“...he was a struggling rapper...”

I can relate. I remember one Christmas season I got that part-time job at Macy’s’ Customer Service counter...Man, were those lines long back then...

Wait...what?


20 posted on 02/23/2013 7:58:31 AM PST by MarDav
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