MD teenager shot Friday for refusing to give up his jacket

[Anonymous]

Animals. https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2024/01/teenager-shot-in-hyattsville-after-refusing-to-give-up-his-jacket-police-say/

"A teenage boy was shot and critically injured in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday afternoon after three men tried to take his jacket, according to police.

Hyattsville Police Chief Jarod Towers said during a news conference Friday the teen boy was walking with two other young teens in a neighborhood in the 3500 block of Carnaby Street around noon, when they were approached by three men.

Those men, Towers said, singled out the teen boy and tried to take his jacket, but the teenager refused and a fight broke out. During that fight, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the teen who had refused to give up his jacket, hitting him once.

The teen boy was taken to the hospital, where Towers described his condition as “critical but stable.”

[Anonymous]

Was he able to keep his jacket?

[Anonymous]

Probably a Canada goose jacket. My son asked for one; HELL NO!

[Anonymous]

Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

[Anonymous]

OMG. I had a cousin who found himself in a similar situation. Fortunately shots were not fired. Give up the jacket and hopefully that is sufficient. Terrible. I hope this kid pulls out ok and makes a full recovery. I hope that the perp is caught, so he won’t harm himself or anyone else. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

It’s rarely about the jacket. IYKYK

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

A violent subculture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably a Canada goose jacket. My son asked for one; HELL NO!

No, it was Moose Knuckles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

It’s rarely about the jacket. IYKYK

I don't know, can you please explain?

[Anonymous]

At noon on Friday? Off campus lunch? Or was today a school holiday?

[Anonymous]

PG county is strange in how wide the income gap is. You still have areas of extreme poverty, even with million dollar homes in Bowie and Upper Marlboro. Even areas like Riverdale and Seat Pleasant are starting to get gentrified. When rents are up, food prices up, minimum wage staying the same, lack of mental health treatment, and schools not following up on chronic absenteeism, you create a population of teens living in deprivation, rage, and hopelessness for their futures. Until we address these root causes better, expect more of these incidents.

[Anonymous]

A friend dated a bartender who died this way in DC. Nice guy. Way back in the 90s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Animals. https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2024/01/teenager-shot-in-hyattsville-after-refusing-to-give-up-his-jacket-police-say/

"A teenage boy was shot and critically injured in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday afternoon after three men tried to take his jacket, according to police.

Hyattsville Police Chief Jarod Towers said during a news conference Friday the teen boy was walking with two other young teens in a neighborhood in the 3500 block of Carnaby Street around noon, when they were approached by three men.

Those men, Towers said, singled out the teen boy and tried to take his jacket, but the teenager refused and a fight broke out. During that fight, one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the teen who had refused to give up his jacket, hitting him once.

The teen boy was taken to the hospital, where Towers described his condition as “critical but stable.”

Its very racist to refer to underprivileged youth as “animals”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

It’s rarely about the jacket. IYKYK

I don't know, can you please explain?

Power, respect or lack there of, initiation into a group, …. It could’ve been shoes instead of a jacket. It could’ve been an unwanted look or simply wrong place wrong time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many young adults in PG such complete and utter trash? Are there parents around, or equally trashy? Shooting a kid over a freaking jacket? How about you get a job and work for something yourselves? Absolute insanity.

As someone who teaches young adults in Prince George's County, your assumption is incorrect. Is there a reason why you are singling out young adults in this particular county? The ones I work with (hundreds over the last few years) all have jobs and are in school. They are not out shooting teens over jackets in the middle of the day.