Gang link suspected in death of student

Boston Globe ^ | May 7, 2006 | Cristina Silva

[ConservativeStatement]

A Harvard College student home on vacation was fatally shot in the chest in Minneapolis this week while spray-painting graffiti on someone's house in a crime police said could be gang-related.

Clarence Duane Meat, 24, an economics major who was expected to graduate next year, was shot as he and a friend spray-painted figures and letters on a home in a south Minneapolis neighborhood on Wednesday, Ronald Reier, a Minneapolis police spokesman, said yesterday. A 17-year-old male allegedly burst out of the home and fired numerous gunshots, hitting Meat in the chest, Reier said.

Meat was taken to the Hennepin Medical County Center by his friend at 10:15 a.m., Reier said. He was pronounced dead shortly after, he said.

[ConservativeStatement]

More bad PR for Harvard.

[Loyalist]

Dead meat.

[vetvetdoug]

24 year old Harvard student that is near graduating is shot while spray painting someones' house. Darwin anyone?

[joesnuffy]

spray-painting graffiti on someone's house in a crime police said could be gang-related.

[spunkets]

Says the graffiti was unintelligible, but they'll figure out what it says soon enough. I'm betting it's rat economic theory.

[Tzimisce]

Well if the Islamic militants don't get you, the gangs will.

[battlegearboat]

"Beat Yale"

[hatfieldmccoy]

You can take the boy out of the "hood" but you can't take the "hood" out of the boy....

[CindyDawg]

What's the Harvard gang sign? It wasn't a crime to die over but if he had not been spray painting someone's house.......

[Riverman94610]

"Keynes runs it,fool"

[Gay State Conservative]

I've dealt with many,many Harvard students and graduates in my (former) line of work and not a single one struck me as being the type who would spray paint gang graffiti.

Perhaps admissions standards have been "relaxed" since I left that line of work.

[spunkets]

"It wasn't a crime to die over"

That's absolutely right.

[359Henrie]

Duuude, lol.

[Gay State Conservative]

What's the Harvard gang sign?

Most likely some variation of "Veritas".

[battlegearboat]

"What's the Harvard gang sign?"

They suck their thumbs.

[Lurker]

"Kennedy School Of Government Rules Fool!"

L

[kinoxi]

seems to be more to this story than this article states. one incident(the first) would be unlikely to instigate an armed response.

[P-40]

Meat was taken to the Hennepin Medical County Center by his friend at 10:15 a.m.

10:15 A.M.?

[Cobra64]

"Clarence Duane Meat, 24, an economics major..."

Now he's dead meat.

[Mears]

Leaving Cambridge and getting away from the "academic elites" must have been too much for him.

Or maybe he just had a few drinks and went out acting like a fool as a lot of young men do.

I raised 3 sons and they do surprise you some times.

He shouldn't have been shot.