There’s really nothing newsworthy about this article, but it pissed me off because this story never ends. I mean what is so special about a young black kid getting shot by thugs? It happens all the time. But for some reason this story is being covered by all the major news sources so I figured I’d put my two cents in as well. And my take is not nearly as sympathetic as theirs is.
Boy, 15, who was shot dead in Brooklyn was ‘gunned down by mistake by killers looking for his older brother’, his heartbroken mother says
A 15-year-old boy who was shot dead in Brooklyn was gunned down by accident by killers who were targeting his older brother, his mother believes.
Samuel Joseph was shot in the face, neck and chest just feet from his home on Friday evening as he went to get food.
His mother Raymonde Figaro said the gunmen had asked Samuel’s sister for the whereabouts of his older brother, Kingsley, shortly before the killing.
Speaking to the New York Post, the boy’s mother said: ‘You saw his face. Why did you kill him?’
‘If you’re ringing the bell looking for someone else, do you just shoot the first person who comes out the door? It makes no sense.’
Does any of it make any sense? I mean she’s speaking like this is acceptable behavior. Had the assassins executed their mission correctly and shot the brother, this all would have been cool?
Paying tribute, she said: ‘Every day, every second, he was always with me. We were one.’
Forgive my skepticism, but yeah. Right. For instance, where were you that night when this happened?
Samuel is said to have emerged from his home, near the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and East 26th Street in Flatbush-Ditmas Park, and been hit by the bullets.
Joseph’s sister was standing just a few feet away from him when he was shot, police sources told the New York Daily News.
First responders arrived on the scene and rushed Joseph to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
‘He was just going to get some food,’ Don Joseph, Samuel’s brother, said on Saturday.
Several reporters gathered outside the family’s apartment in Brooklyn, where Joseph’s mother was grieving inconsolably as relatives offered their support.
And one barely literate democrat assemblywoman, Rodneyse Bichotte, wanted to “reiterate the number of gun violence that are happening in our neighborhood,” and “that’s why the assembly, we’ve been passing these gun restricted laws.”
Go to the 50 second mark in the video to hear this astonishing numb skull.
And how are those “gun restricted laws” working out for you? Looks like maybe not so well. You’re a dolt.
‘He was a good kid,’ Don Joseph said.
‘He would go out and get groceries. He was that kind of kid.’
Sources close to the investigation told the Daily News that police are searching for two suspects believed to be in their late teens.
Police are trying to determine if Samuel Joseph was their intended target or was a victim of mistaken identity.
Does it fucking matter? Murder is murder. “Intended target” or not.
The two suspects were filmed on surveillance video outside Joseph’s apartment around the time of the shooting, it is reported.
When Joseph stepped outside, one of the two teens pulled out a gun and opened fire.
Heartbroken relatives and neighbors described the 15-year-old victim as a normal kid who liked to play sports.
‘He was just a good kid,’ his brother Don said.
‘He was not a gang member. He was always laughing and had jokes.’
Is that so? Just another dindu. Why don’t I believe that? Look at these pictures and tell me exactly where does that laughing jokester reside behind those dead eyes (see the title picture) while he flashes what look to me to be gang signs. In almost every single picture I see of this kid he’s throwing that same sign. It could be that he was just a huge fan of Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden or some other metal band, but somehow I doubt that.
Samuel Joseph moved to the United States from his native Haiti five years ago, his brother said.
Local politicians paid condolence visits to the family, including Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Tony Herbert, who is a candidate for the Public Advocate position.
‘We’ve done an amazing job in the last 20 plus years of dealing with the issues of violence but… what do you say to a mother who lost her child at 15-years-old?’ Adams asked.
If it was indeed a case of mistaken identity, that these killers were really looking for his brother, maybe you tell her that her other son was involved in something very very bad and maybe she could have prevented all this by being a better parent. Or better yet, tell it to her absentee husband if you can find him.
‘You can’t merely state that the crime is down or the crime is up. This is not a stat, this is an individual, it’s a young man that is no longer with us.
‘No mother expects to have to bury their son, there’s nothing natural about that.
‘People in the neighborhood who either saw something or saw someone fleeing the scene or hanging around the place should come forward.’
Which they won’t. Which is part of the reason that things like this continue to happen. As outraged as they always claim to be, they live by the gangsta code of silence. No one ever sees anything. “I din see nuffin, I din hear nuffin, I dindunuffin.”
For example, remember this part in the story? “The gunmen asked Samuel’s sister for the whereabouts of his older brother.” There’s no mention of the age of the sister. It’s possible that she is far too young to provide a description of these thugs. But what about the older brother? When you’ve done something so wrong that it’s pissed someone off enough to the point that they’re showing up at your doorstep ready to shoot you in the face, you generally know exactly what you did, and who you did it to, to inspire that sort of rage. Certainly he has some idea of who was behind this.
But I guess he ain’t talkin’ either. Him and his “homies” will most likely handle this themselves. And while that will earn him some “stripes” when he eventually ends up behind bars, unless he gets killed first, it will do nothing to help put a stop to this never-ending cycle of black on black crime. And neither will the democrat solution of “gun restricted laws.”
And so the cycle continues . . .
