RIP Jovan Wilson, 15

[Dick Whitman]

The 15-year-old grandson of United States Congressman Danny Davis, killed by one of his peers in his Chicago home in an argument related to some clothes his sister had lent and/or borrowed.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chic...wilson-murder-charges-20161120-story,amp.html

 

[YankeeFan]

Sounds like a good kid.

Harris' mother, Marie Harris, 34, defended her son as "a good kid" in a brief Tribune interview Sunday and said the truth about the killing was still untold.

When she met with her son at the police station Saturday evening, she said, he wept at the loss of his friend, Javon, but offered few details about the events. "He just said, 'Momma, I was there. I wish I wasn't.' He was like, 'It wasn't even my shoes.'"

Tariq Harris had stopped attending classes at Curtis Elementary School in the eighth grade, his mother said, but "he was trying to find his way back. He was a young kid, as impressionable as any kid can be. He got in trouble before, but not to this extent. They put it all on him."

 

[Dick Whitman]

Sounds like he basically killed the kid because his girlfriend called him a *****. Hope she's impressed now.

 

[YankeeFan]

Sounds like he basically killed the kid because his girlfriend called him a *****. Hope she's impressed now.

Yep. Girl got in a fight. Got mad at him for not standing up for her.

Bringing a gun with them was their first mistake.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Yep. Girl got in a fight. Got mad at him for not standing up for her.

Bringing a gun with them was their first mistake.

That was a mistake?

Interesting.

 

[YankeeFan]

That was a mistake?

Interesting.

You don't bring a gun unless you're prepared to use it.

A 15-year-old, grade school dropout, with a record, might have been better off not bringing a gun to a fight between a couple of friends about borrowed clothes and gym shoes.

 

[Dick Whitman]

You don't bring a gun unless you're prepared to use it.

A 15-year-old, grade school dropout, with a record, might have been better off not bringing a gun to a fight between a couple of friends about borrowed clothes and gym shoes.

Who says that's why he brought it. You have to be prepared to defend yourself.

 

[YankeeFan]

I told you @**** Whitman!

I think Rahm is considering putting @WriteThinking in charge of this problem.

 

[cjericho]

Who says that's why he brought it. You have to be prepared to defend yourself.

Is it legal for 15-year olds to carry guns in Illinois?