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Slain teen Ja'Quares Walker's mom in shock at shooting
The Birmingham (AL) News via al.com ^ | May 2, 2012 | Carol Robinson

Posted on 05/03/2012 7:30:57 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde

The mother of a 13-year-old boy fatally shot when police say he tried to rob a couple said she is in shock that her son is dead -- and even more so at the circumstances surrounding his death.

"I don't want it put out like he was a bad person or a mean person, because he wasn't," Latonya Walker, 38, said Tuesday. "This is not him, not who he was. Anybody that knew Ja'Quares knows that."

Birmingham police said Ja'Quares Cortez Walker was in a car that pulled into the parking lot of the gated Skyview Condominiums at 407 Skyview Drive shortly after 11 p.m. Friday. The condo is off Robert Jemison Drive in southwest Birmingham.

Wearing a gray shirt around his face like a bandana and armed with a loaded and cocked pistol, authorities said Ja'Quares approached a black Lexus SUV with a couple inside and ordered the driver out. The driver pulled a gun and shot Ja'Quares multiple times.

The driver's name has not been released.

Police officials on Tuesday said the case remains under investigation. Once their probe is complete, they will present their findings to the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office to determine whether charges will be filed.

District Attorney Brandon Falls said he has been told that police will present the case to him no later than Thursday.

Police released no information on the Friday incident until late Monday, until then saying only that an "unclassified shooting death" had occurred.

Police Chief A.C. Roper on Tuesday said police are still investigating.

"We questioned all the people we needed to question in relation to the incident," he said.

Police still are looking for the people who were accompanying Ja'Quares on Friday night, "but no one has been arrested," said Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr., spokesman for the Birmingham Police Department.

The shooter, Williams said, talked to investigators at the scene, and he voluntarily went to the Birmingham Police headquarters.

Latonya Walker said her son, who school officials confirmed was the quarterback on the football team at Martha Gaskins Middle School, was home about 9 p.m. Friday. She said he was visiting with two of his friends and one of his brothers in the front yard of the east Birmingham home where Ja'Quares lived with his parents, two brothers and a sister.

A red Chevrolet Trail Blazer pulled up to the group of young men. Latonya Walker said she yelled out to her son and asked who was in the car. He replied that it was one of his friends and the friend's uncle, and then got in the vehicle with them.

"Mom, we're just going to the store, and we'll be right back," his mother recalled him saying. It wasn't long, she said, before she began to worry. She said she called everyone she could think of, but had no success finding her son. She said he did not have a cellphone.

"It's not like him to go anywhere and not tell me," she said.

After several hours, Latonya Walker said she called Birmingham police and reported her son missing. She said she paced the house throughout the night, and still no word came.

"It was a real rough day," she said. "I knew something wasn't right."

It wasn't until about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, she said, that a Birmingham police detective called her and asked her if she had reported her son missing.

When she said yes, he asked her to meet him and look at a photo of a youth shot to death the previous night.

Police have said they were not able to identify Ja'Quares until Saturday.

Latonya Walker said the account of her son's death doesn't make sense to her. "He got fussed at like all kids do, but he was a real respectful child," she said. "Every day was a happy day for us."

She said she just wants to know the truth.

"Even if he did this, someone had to put him up to it. Why else would 16- and 17-year-olds want to hang out with a 13-year-old boy?" she said. "It's not the way he was raised."

She said her heart is heavy, and she's still not sure everything has hit her yet.

"It's like he's still here, and I feel him holding me up," she said. "All I can do is pray, and know God was ready to take his angel."


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To: laweeks

Yep, IF I ever see a Ja’Quares at the top of a resume...in the trash can it goes! *Swish!*

(Same for anyone named LaShayshawndra, Dequender, Damika Lashundra, Demarius, Demarae, Dayshaun et al.)

Thankfully I’ve never had to, as the jobs that I fill require education, skills, degrees and licensure...something, frankly, these people tend to lack.


41 posted on 05/03/2012 8:00:03 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Thanks for your post...

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Skin tone of shooter not described. I hope this does not turn into another Trayvon Martin case.

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Given the evidence that seems to be "in plain sight"--
That this young man was committing a felony while using a [cocked/loaded] firearm...

AND...
The mother's reflection on her son's life and tragic passing...

Seems plainly -- this was a necessary use of force in self-defense--
(as was Zimmerman's use of force against T_Martin--IMO)

That doesn't make it any less sad for the family...
Or for the city in matter of fact--
This young man had a lot going for him.... still in school, etc.

Anyone who attempts to fan the flames of racial division with THIS Birmingham case....
It will tell us a lot more about their publicity-pimp motives...
--than the purported "racism" of the self-defense shooter.

Just my humble....
tyvm

42 posted on 05/03/2012 8:00:03 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
And the mom -- yelling from the house does not constitute watching your children and knowing where they are going and with whom. If you don't know the people that just rolled up to take your *13* year old kid somewhere, get your ass out to the curb and find out. Sheesh.

Why am I picturing a 400-pound mass of laziness?

43 posted on 05/03/2012 8:00:55 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: grobdriver

I wonder if those boys he was with will go to Ja’Quares’ funeral, or if they look at him as just another expendible piece of cannon fodder for the gang.


44 posted on 05/03/2012 8:02:21 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
This was FReeped yesterday.
 
And nowhere have I read that Little Tez lived at home with his biological mother and father, who are, of course, married to each other.
 
And this is the key to the survival of the black race. Want to stop little Trayvons and Jaquarez's from being killed?
 
It's pretty simple really. But it's a white thing. They would'nt understand


45 posted on 05/03/2012 8:02:37 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: mkboyce
"(Same for anyone named LaShayshawndra, Dequender, Damika Lashundra, Demarius, Demarae, Dayshaun et al.)"

You forgot "Dammsha'ame"

46 posted on 05/03/2012 8:03:16 AM PDT by BlueLancer ("No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full" (Sulla))
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To: AppyPappy

Looks a bit like English for ”Jacks Cars”.

Irony.


47 posted on 05/03/2012 8:03:32 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: grobdriver
Gang initiation.

Or he was already initiated. Lots of times, a gang will let the youngest member have the gun, since he's least likely to do hard time. I would guess the plan was to have Ja’Quares do the actual robbery, while the friends would have handled fencing the loot.

48 posted on 05/03/2012 8:04:13 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Found this in another forum says the shooter is white.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/politics-religion-and-controversy/3050247-will-jaquares-be-the-next-trayvone.html


49 posted on 05/03/2012 8:04:13 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER (I'm supposed to be more angry about what Romney does with his money than what Obama does with mine)
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To: Drew68
There's a lesson to be learned from this photo:

Put the phone down when you're committing armed robbery. The guy you're trying to rob may take advantage of the distraction.

Need I say it? Darwin Award winner.

50 posted on 05/03/2012 8:06:17 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I assume these people can read and write.
 
(OK, I assume to much!)
 
Maybe they ment to issue this trubute in ebonics....
 

 

Keepin' it real - yo.

51 posted on 05/03/2012 8:06:17 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: jagusafr

I posted the Alabama murder statute in #14. Please read carefully and comment on its applicability to the present case.


52 posted on 05/03/2012 8:06:24 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: AppyPappy
“It’s like he’s still here, and I feel him **holding me up**,”

Why? Does she imagine her little "angel" is also pointing a gun in her face?

53 posted on 05/03/2012 8:07:51 AM PDT by drpix
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Technically, I’m curious exactly how this went down. Where did the driver have his piece? Was the window open and if so, why? Did he shoot through the window?

I have to think the driver had his weapon out already by the time the kid got to the car window...


54 posted on 05/03/2012 8:08:25 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
NOT MY CHILE!!
55 posted on 05/03/2012 8:08:58 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you better have a plan for dealing with his teeth.)
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To: Tax-chick

God gave him free will, and he used that gift unwisely.


56 posted on 05/03/2012 8:09:11 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: laweeks

Hey, cut Mom a break, she’s another one of those African-American Scrabble champions.


57 posted on 05/03/2012 8:09:40 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Mom is behaving better than most under these circumstances. She just lost her child and deserves a modicum of slack. As for the boy being out at 11 PM at night, it was a Friday night playing in the front yard. Mom was there and asked where he was going so it wasn't unsupervised. A middle-school kid, caught up by the peer influences in a Black culture destroyed by The Great Society. No doubt some sort of gang initiation. The story also says he lived with his parents, emphasis on the plural.

It is hard enough raising a teenager these days, I thank God that I am not trying to do it in the Black community. Talk about a stacked deck. A prayer for that mom.

58 posted on 05/03/2012 8:10:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Chen Guangcheng: Gutsy call, Obama /UltraMegaDrippingSarc)
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To: THE_RAIDER

Well if the shooter is white, and he was defending himself against a hold up, will the liberals be able to use this case to charge that we are a racist society and all that????

If they try to take this and make a Trayvon Martin case out of it, it would prove that it’s all about political correctness and making political statements.

How much do liberals care that a 13 year old boy is dead?


59 posted on 05/03/2012 8:11:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: THE_RAIDER
Found this in another forum says the shooter is white.


"Here I come!"
60 posted on 05/03/2012 8:11:49 AM PDT by kevcol
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