Teens attack, burn KC teen headed home from school

Kansas City Star ^ | 2/29/12 | Tony Rizzo

[One Name]

Kansas City police are investigating an after-school assault during which a teenager was burned when one of his assailants ignited a can of gasoline. The 13-year-old victim told police that two older teens followed him from East High School on Tuesday afternoon to his house in the 2200 block of Quincy Avenue. As he was attempting to unlock the front door, one of the assailants grabbed him in a bear hug, he told police. The second suspect picked up a can of gasoline and said, “This is what you get,” according to police reports. The suspect pulled out a lighter, and when the boy tried to grab the can from the suspect, it dropped to the ground, spilling gasoline. The suspect then lit the gasoline, producing a “fireball,” according to the reports. The victim’s face was burned and his hair was singed. The suspects ran away.

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[One Name]

The victim will be OK I hear- used his shirt to extinguish the flame before too late.

[Jeff Chandler]

Limited description of the perps...

[Jeff Chandler]

Limited description of the perps...

[One Name]

Two older black kids attacked a white boy...

[vbmoneyspender]

I hate to say it but this sounds like the kid burned himself by accident.

[One Name]

Could be but he’s at Children’s Mercy and there is a reasonably good description of the perps and clothing they were wearing on the local news.

[One Name]

Could be but he’s at Children’s Mercy and there is a reasonably good description of the perps and clothing they were wearing on the local news.

[annieokie]

how did I know this?

[Bronzewound]

I hate to say it but this sounds like the kid burned himself by accident.

Yeah, and the "accident" would have happened anyway even if the two black guys hadn't shown up with the gasoline and a lighter. Right?

[BobL]

‘Two older black kids attacked a white boy...”

Thank goodness - I thought it was a hate crime.

[eyedigress]

How do you get that, the victim describes a bear hug and specifics of a gas can.

[vbmoneyspender]

You’re assuming there were 2 black guys walking around with a can of gasoline and a lighter.

[C210N]

I lay some blame on the current sad state of TV and movies. Sure, there is violence in society. Always has been and always will. But, whether on TV or in society, violence in one arena feeds the other. I used to watch the dang thing a lot, but now, every time I even happen to glance at it while other household members have it on, it's just the same old crime, killing, maiming, shooting.

Another point to make about not being part of the TV scene now for a few years: The boiling lobster or frog or whatever animal, slowly but surely, is involved here. I have family members that seem to be immune now to the most awful crap. Okay. But, when someone like me walks by and gets a 5 second snippet of whatever was going on that moment, I believe I can better reflect on how much "the water temperature has increased" on the box. So, TV viewers just subtlety go deeper and deeper into the violence trance that it puts them into, where if one could just break that trance, you could see that the "temp is near the boiling point" of rape, suicide, killing, gore and blood.

[BADROTOFINGER]

This sounds self inflicted, with a bogus assault story as cover.

[Bronzewound]

You’re assuming there were 2 black guys walking around with a can of gasoline and a lighter.

Are you assuming the gasoline and lighter were waiting on the victim's porch? I'm assuming what the article states, that the suspect picked up the can of gasoline and threatened the victim. The victim tried to knock the weapon, in this case a can of gasoline, away from the attacker. Then the attacker purposely lit the spilled gasoline.

Why do you take such issue with that?

[One Name]

It’s the current trend.

We have an ugly racial past- there were white-on-black lynchings in this region, including one in a nearby town in the 1920’s.

As whites have largely moved away from this past, aggrieved parties have ressurected it.

Ain’t no easy answers but it would be unwise to inflame the peacekeepers.

[JSteff]

Two older black kids attacked a white boy...

Now did you really think it was some Amish involved?

[vbmoneyspender]

I think the kid burned himself and then made up the story about being burned by two black kids. I think that because the kid’s story sounds strange. 2 black kids he doesn’t know follow him home from school and then pick up a can of gasoline that just happens to be laying around and then pour it on him and tell him “This is what you get.”

[One Name]

Could be- wasn’t there but it’s buzzin. Had tennis shoe descriptions.

Supposedly happened on his front doorstep coming home from school.

[Bronzewound]

So you’re reacting to the racial element in the story?