Posted on 03/07/2014 5:56:25 AM PST by jimbo123
A Seattle teen shot and killed a man for his cellphone — then went to a friend’s house and complained the stolen gizmo wasn’t nice enough, police say.
Byron White, 17, now faces charges as an adult for killing David Peterson last month in the Washington city’s Greenwood neighborhood.
White was on the lam for a week after the shooting until cops caught up to him at the airport last weekend as the boy tried to board a flight to Atlanta, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
“David Peterson went out for a walk around the neighborhood after dinner and never returned, ” King County prosecuting attorney Dan Satterberg said in a statement. “He was a random victim from a chance encounter with a dangerous young man. That the evidence shows he was murdered for his cellphone by a teenager with a gun makes this all the more tragic and senseless.”
The Ballard High School student approached Peterson, 54, around 8:30 p.m. Feb. 23 and punched him in the head in a robbery attempt, the Post-Intelligencer reported.
Peterson fought back and went to a parking lot, where he called 911 to report the attempted theft. But as Peterson spoke, he saw White coming back for him and warned the dispatcher his attacker was returning.
The dispatcher heard Peterson tell his alleged attacker that he was not going to hand over the phone when the line suddenly went dead, the newspaper reported.
Responding officers found Peterson dead, shot once in the chest. The suspect had fled the scene, but cops found one 9-mm. bullet casing on scene.
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censorship keeps me from a proper response, so make up your own.
How awful for your son. I hope he is ok now.
We had a similar case here in Pgh where two gang bangers who were still in high school attacked a guy with a concrete block and stole his phone. Fortunately, they were so dumb they used it to upload photos of themselves in the HS, and the victim was able to see this through his photo account somehow. That’s how the cops tracked them down.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Another budding Trayvon. I hope he wears his pants around his ass like that in jail so they know he is ready for gay sex
Most devices allow all photos to be linked to all devices. I have to point that out to my clients when they send their children to the other parent with a tablet, phone, etc. No privacy unless you ask for it.
Sad someone had to die. Glad another one is off the streets though. He’ll make a nice little boy in prison
Thanks for posting this.
I’ve seen enough pictures of the criminal.
Not permanently. The average time served for murder in the USA is 71 months
Based on the description of this particular incident, it appears the outcome could have been VERY different if Mr. Peterson had taken measures to provide for his own protection.
A culture created by years of Democrat welfare and giveaway programs.
Do you have any statistics from this millennia?
That report is from 1993 or thereabouts.
Sorry, 1995.
Same millennia though.
> Ahhh, there is that word “teen” again
You don’t even have to guess the race anymore. Yeah I’m racist towards thugs that beat down, lie, cheat, and steal. I think people should embrace being called a racist if its prejudice directed at evil. From here on out I will embrace it as a badge of honor.
Where are the loud mouthy black "activists" and their sychophantic media screaming outrage over the death of Peterson? Is dee revin Jackasson out there somewhere? How about dee revin Al?
What? You think it’s changed significantly in the last 20 years? If it has it’s probably gotten shorter.
I thought Zimmerman took this parasite out...
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