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Young Penn. Mother Tells Teens to ‘Get a Job’ When They Ask for a Cigarette — And They Kill Her

Dec. 11, 2012 2:29pm
Mother Kayla Peterson Murdered by Teens for Telling Them to Get a Job When They Ask for Cigarette

(Photo via WTAE)

A young mother was senselessly murdered by three teens in western Pennsylvania after she told them to “get a job” and stop roaming the streets when they asked her fiancée for a cigarette, police say.

Beaver Falls police have charged 14-year-olds Todavia Cleckley and Marcus Velasquez and 13-year-old Kyle Goosby Jr. with criminal homicide and other charges in Saturday’s shooting of 22-year-old Kayla Peterson.

She was shot at about 3:30 p.m. that day and died in a Pittsburgh hospital two hours later.

Goosby is in custody and his attorney says he was just “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when Velasquez – identified as the gunman by police – opened fire.  Beaver Falls Police Chief Charles Jones says officers are still searching for the other two suspects.

WTAE interviewed Peterson’s fiancée after the tragedy.  Holding their 23-month old baby, Bill Bailey said Peterson’s last words after being shot in the chest were how she loved him and their daughter.

Mother Kayla Peterson Murdered by Teens for Telling Them to Get a Job When They Ask for Cigarette

(Photo: WTAE)

“She didn’t even move when it happened,” he said, measuring his voice. “She just said, ‘I can’t feel my legs.’  She wanted to lay down, so I laid her down.”

Shockingly, Bailey says they knew the young neighborhood boys, and he’s played basketball with one of their fathers.

Brock Edwards, who was working at the convenience store where Bailey bought the cigarettes, weighed in: “My friend came in and got cigarettes, and three young kids followed him. They kept following him and asking him for a cigarette…”

He concluded, according to WTAE:

“The next thing you know, they just pull out a gun and shoot for no reason. It was just over a cigarette…Now, my friend lost his girlfriend — an amazing, amazing girl, and she was such a good mother, too — and now her child has to grow up without her mother being there.”

WPXI-11 News has more, including a picture the suspects posted of themselves on Facebook less than 12 hours after the shooting:

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • pap pap
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:53pm

    This is one of those great cities where the good guys are not allowed to carry guns. WTF.

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  • bearly98
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:52pm

    Beaver Falls is not by Philly
    It is about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh

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  • mrspolitikoz
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:52pm

    Philly is not anywhere near Western Pennsylvania nor Pittsburgh. I know that’s where this kind of thing usually happens but accuracy in reporting would help. The Blaze is slacking, on grammar, typos, and now simple facts. Sloppy.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:58pm

      Beaver Falls is outside of Pittsburgh. It’s where Tony Dorsett and Joe Namath grew up. Probably visiting.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:13pm

      “She was shot at about 3:30 p.m. that day and died in a Pittsburgh hospital two hours later.”

      It could be that she was air lifted to Pittsburgh….

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      The-Monk  
  • Cavallo
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:51pm

    Hang one of Holder’s people? If you are white that is a racist remark. If you are not white it will depend on what area of the world your family is from. These are the new Americans. These are the ideal citizenry of the new Obama America.

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  • DaveIn84
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:47pm

    Generation Obama

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    • redandbluearethesame
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:04pm

      Yes I remember the good old days under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II where there was no inner city violence, no black on white crime, no welfare, and not one senseless killing. Seriously I think many of you would blame Obama for a toothache.

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    • countryfirst
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:07pm

      It is only going to get worse, for when the govment can no longer give them what they thinks they deserve, the so call parents will send the trash out to collect some other way. Since BHO is so giving I am sure he will order the opening of the White house gates. Practice gun control “hitting your target” we are going to need it.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:16pm

      redandbluearethesame

      Actually blaming Obama for a toothache is coming to America. If the British Health Service is any indication than people with tooth pain will just have to wait their tun for service even if that is days, weeks or months.

      My or my are you prescient.

      In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves
      http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/world/europe/07teeth.html?pagewanted=all

      Brits resort to pulling own teeth
      http://articles.cnn.com/2007-10-15/world/england.dentists_1_dental-treatment-dental-services-teeth?_s=PM:WORLD

      Seriously though, we are nothing alike. You have an attention span smaller than a gold fish’s & is orders of magnitude much longer. Plus unlike you I am not innumerate.

      Is there an organization opposite of MENSA & do you, redandbluearethesame, belong to it?

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    • yiska8
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:24pm

      @Redandbluearethesame
      No, a toothache is still Bush’s fault too, according to the Left for eight…no 12 years now. Obama has done nothing wrong and all the history books written by the Lefist academians will say it over and over and over and over again, til the indoctrination is successful. Oh wait, it’s already worked.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 5:32pm

      User Profile: redandbluearethesame
      Member Since: December 05, 2012

      So will redandbluearethesameRespoind to the NYT & CNN articles or will they answer with their silence & rout!

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    • redandbluearethesame
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:17pm

      Walkabout,

      Everyone is a new member sometime! I don’t like Obama or Bush. I would like to see a real man that can think for himself, has actually done something in life, and isn’t owned by anyone as our president. I was speaking to how amusing it is than no matter what the story, it’s Obama. Raining? Obama’s fault. Not raining? Obama’s fault.

      And Yiska8……you again. I am not a lefty. Not even close. I despise both establishment parties equally. All of this indoctrination stuff is nonsense though. The American people will never let this country become Marxist or Communist, perhaps if the dumbos who thought nominating Romney was a good idea would have actually come up with a decent candidate we would not be having this conversation.

      Don’t blame me…I voted Johnson, he was the only one that fit the criteria listed above.

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    • redandbluearethesame
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:07pm

      Walkabout,
      With my short attention span I don’t remember advocating for a UK type health care system. And you did prove my point, you would find a way to blame Obama for your toothache. I’m not sure why your feel it necessary to make a bunch of nasty comments. Do you know me? No you don’t. If I was standing in front of you would you have the stones to tell me that BS about “attention span of a goldfish” and “being a member of a reverse MENSA club”? No absolutely not. Don’t be a sissy keyboard warrior and get your panties in a wad when you read something you don’t like. Try to make your argument without coming off as a snotty little girl. Hope that helps you in your future endeavors. You are welcome!

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:58pm

      red,your bush derangement syndrom is blinding you.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:46am

      redandbluearethesame
      I don’t remember advocating for a UK type health care system.
      Seriously I think many of you would blame Obama for a toothache.
      ***
      When you wrote the second sentence, I provided you links abouts what a socialized health system is like from liberal news sites. So I don’t blame Obama for everything, but I will be blaming him for the health system. I provided links to liberal sites, NYT & CNN. Those sources were not cherry picked.

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    • ree758
      Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:05am

      Remember they were raised during those horrible Christian Bush years!!

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  • Owt_Raged
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:46pm

    Ahhh, the entitlement culture rears it’s ugly head again!

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  • hatchetjob
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:46pm

    How sad and sickening. Kids today are messed up bad.

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    • SageInWaiting
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:04pm

      ROM 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

      Welcome to Amerika – 2013

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    • crazedbanshee
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:38pm

      You are messed up to make a general statement like that. A few evil people commit murder and you place the blame on the whole generation. Despicable.

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    • Marms
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:28pm

      If Obama had two sons they’d look just like these boys.

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  • stopprintn
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:46pm

    You can’t just watch your children grow up, they must be raised.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:27pm

      They didn’t kill this woman. Government helped. Just like businesses, right, Obama?

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      Cavallo  
  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

    This is going to get even worse as our culture and society comes undone, and I put the blame solely upon the Democrats.

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    • CanadaRocks
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:48pm

      Of course you do. How is anything not obamas fault?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:08pm

      CanadaRocks

      Obama speaks in terms of victimology. that sort of rhetoric has an effect. It is not the type of rhetoric that incites a mob at that very minute but it is corrosive.

      BTW Is see that DHS is worthless. Roma violate our southern border, drive clear across the U.S. & cross into Canada by storming past northern border control going the wrong way on the road. And Canada takes them in. Good luck with that. Your welfare problems are only just beginning.

      Now National Geographic had an article about Roma mansions in Romania. The parents spread out & work (we assume ) in Europe & send remittances back. Well you must be getting the not so industrious Roma. Cheers!

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      Walkabout  
    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:59pm

      if it aint obama’s fault – it is democrat’s fault.
      Of course, republican types are blameless

      No republican has ever put a serious motion forward to eliminate department of education – so i dont see how it is ALL democrat’s fault.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 5:37pm

      soybomb315_II

      The mothers of these children never kicked their azzes to make them go to school or do anything. Their father s are unknown in some cases, don’t care & are not mentioned. That is the 1st line of defense against truancy. You can only fund so many truancy officers (2nd line of defense) without taking the food out of your won children’s mouths. Do you get that?

      On the other side you have any number of apologists. I know I got in trouble for poor grades & there was a father in the house to make the punishment more than empty words.

      the problem is more the welfare system than the department of education by a large degree.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 5:47pm

      i argue that we wouldnt have a large welfare system if the department of education did not dupe two whole generations…..

      We will never have an informed populace capable of eliminating federal welfare unless we have a proper education system

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 5:59pm

      Soy

      I’ll yield that point.

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      Walkabout  
    • Fubared
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:27pm

      Cannuck-Where for did you go? Snipe and away? French canadian?

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    • Wiley41
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:44pm

      Canada,

      How bout never because ever is still Bush’s fault right? (tongue in cheek for the libs out there)

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:09am

      It is America’s fault. We allowed the sickness of Liberalism to infect all levels of our society. So much so, even supposed “conservatives” are just liberal-lite. America has given up on the idea of self rule and freedom, and instead wants to feed on the teats of dictators.

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  • uptickusa
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Todavia and Marcus two black kids-Media will not bring up race not white?

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 10:35pm

      they brought the names with no picture,black.they brought the names,not muslim.no party affileation,democrat.these are’nt the droids your looking for….for real,its the machine in dc,both sides carry a degree of blame.like when the repubs will cave in so,the emporer can can say .THE BUCK STOPS WITH THEM,THEY DID BUILD THAT?

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  • PATTY HENRY
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Was Velasquez an AMERICAN CITIZEN? OKAY: HERE IT IS:

    WE’VE ALLOWED punk teachers to teach punks. WE need to clean our schools of Socialist and Communist and Punks – NOW. WE need to prosecute these punks to the point that they are scared silly at the thought of going to jail. Sorry, can’t help it now, punks… you were not taught correctly, we know, but hey….there were Millions of other kids who went through same educational process and didn’t turn total punk…so you who do have to pay the price.
    I hope the MEN of this country will stand up and exercise authority over any punkdom they see.
    These kids, even the one “in the wrong place at the wrong time” need to be made EXAMPLES of.

    THE PUNK’S PARENTS need to pay for the college education of the children killed by their Punk Kid.
    If they are illegal they need to be shipped back to where ever – confiscate everything of value they have here to help compensate the victim’s child/children.

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    • HotFixIt
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Even the one ‘in the wrong place’ had the opportunity to say something to his friend to stop him before pulling the trigger. I would bet he knew he had the gun. Kids are being told by this administration.. our government, teachers, society that they are ‘owed’ everything… this has to stop before we lose everything…. we are losing an entire generation already.

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  • goahead.makemyday
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Here comes more anti gun diatribes and people ignoring the fact that the “kid” had it illegally and this woman died because of a juvenile believing they had the right to something that wasn’t theirs and responded like the thugs they were taught to be. These kind of responses are not naturally ingrained in human psych, they are learned responses and must either be observed whit no consequences or taught.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:44pm

    This is what the administation is allowing to happen. You would think Obummer would stand up and say “Enough”, but it just fits his agenda so well. The poor woman is just a “Means” to Obummer’s “Ends”

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  • mayancalendar2012
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:44pm

    Stay tuned America…It only gets worse from here. The judge should, at the very least, allow the murdered woman’s husband the privilege of dropping the gas pellets.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

    These kids have no morals and don’t need to be coddled. They need to be tries as adults and the death penalty on the table! This is we have to look forward too.

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  • starman70
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

    Unfortunaely, no. He is a minor. He can be tried as an adult but I don’t think Pennsylvania has the death penalty any more.

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    • DaMule1977
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:42pm

      Pa still has the death penalty….mind you they don’t use it much. You can get the stats on the numbers on the Dept of Corrections website. I couldn’t get it to load, but I know they had a stay of execution back in Nov. sometime.

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    • uziah55
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:06am

      hey spike,jesse j, and rev al there are 3 boys in beaver falls who really need your help.

      you can spin this where a 100lb unarmed racist mother of a two year in her own yard provoked these
      fine gentlemen to violence

      by the way that pic of zimmerman sure proves he is a white latino rascist . positively

      Uziah55

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    • betterpart
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:57am

      The death penalty is fitting for these dirtbags who will likely not amount to much anyway.

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  • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

    Such a tragic statement of how our society has fallen

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  • Landon410
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

    channeling bob costas and jason whitlock…. one think i know, if we didn’t have cigarettes, this woman would still be alive

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  • MDECKER
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:42pm

    Live on MTV.

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:42pm

    “Lord of the Flies” happening in real life. They are not children but little predators with no regard for human life.

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  • Vegasdad702
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:42pm

    This story is just tragic!! I could make a joke about the lethality of cigarettes but this is just to sad a story. You run the woulda, coulda, shoulda’s, though your head about how this may have been avoided or if the girl or boyfriend would have had a gun as well, but in the end I think that sometimes really awful, sad things just happen to decent people sometimes. :( Now that baby is going to grow up without her mommy. :( Just so sad!

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  • Landon410
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:39pm

    future dem voters off the street!

    terrible story though, this woman was murdered for nothing, by a child with a gun….
    the parents need to be looked at to try to figure out how the child got a gun in the first place.

    I am very pro gun, but a 13 year old had a gun while walking around down town? come on now parents…. Yes I owned guns at that age but they were locked in my fathers gun safe and I was not allowed to use with or touch them if I was not with my father

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    • glckgrl
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:54pm

      I doubt they got the gun from their parents; probably from someone in their gang. Responsible gun owners keep their guns in a safe, locked, people like you and me. This is so very wrong, especially if they get tried as juveniles, are deemed “delinquent” and then set free at age 18. Very sad day for America. They’re no different than Trayvon Martin, get what they want or get violent.

      My prayer list is getting longer and longer… sigh… well, at least they can’t take personal prayer away from us, and it cannot be quantified enough to tax it!

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:03pm

      Probably these punks didn’t have their dad around, as the sperm donor was more than likely out creating more punks with other women.

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  • UCSDKID
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:39pm

    Here’s a picture of the two boys:
    http://morallowground.com/2012/12/10/14-year-olds-marcus-velasquez-todavia-cleckley-allegedly-murdered-young-mom-kayla-peterson-over-cigarettes/screen-shot-2012-12-10-at-3-56-40-pm/

    If Obama had a son…

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    • KangarooJack
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

      …and how did I know prior to the photos?

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:44pm

      Obama voters?

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

      thanks….they are just what I had imagined.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:52pm

      One is dual wielding handguns, the other is flashing a gang sign. I had little doubt of their race (something this savage at the listed time of day is not normally the providence of smart killers or sociopaths), but their leaning is ever so obvious in those pictures. Hell, the magnum the kid is holding in that pic is bigger than his head!

      Smart, they likely are not.

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    • RANGER1965
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:57pm

      Victim was white, no hate crime here. Move along.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Thanks UCSDKID, you saved me from searching.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:10pm

      If Barry Soetoro had a son he’d look like Todavia.

      The victim was just “a typical white person”.

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    • VanceUppercut
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:12pm

      @LakeHartwellSailor

      Yes, because white kids have never killed anybody. *cough*Columbine*cough*.

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  • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:38pm

    Death penalty comes to my mind after reading this things……I don´t know if it is possible there, but I hope so….

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  • UNALIEN
    Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:34pm

    If we only gave out free cigarettes to kids and banned jobs this would never have happened..

    Demoralization of America by the left is progressing on schedule..

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    • RANGER1965
      Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Sounds like the appropriate progressive solution, after all it would be racist to blame a 14 year old black teenager for pulling the trigger. We all know he’s a product of the inheriant unfairness in America.

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