Cheeseburgers and snow cones. Sooo good. Kind of expensive in St. Louis though:
St. Louis police say a teenager accused of killing a man over a cheeseburger will be tried as an adult.16-year-old Dominique Jacobs is accused of shooting 26-year-old Carl Sharp to death at 12:30 a.m. on August 2, 2008. Sharp was sitting on his porch eating a cheesburger when two people approached him and told him to give up the burger. Police said one of those people was Jacobs. Sharp would not give up his burger.
According to police, Jacobs returned to Sharp's home on a bicycle armed with a gun. Jacobs allegedly opened fire, shooting Sharp three times. Sharp died at the scene.
Police arrested Jacobs a short time later when they found him selling snow cones at the intersection of N. Grand Boulevard and Kossuth.
I wouldn't charge even this little viper as an adult. The concept of charging kids as adults is as repugnant to me as upping charges under the idiotic and selectively imposed concept of "hate crime."
The clothing industry has nothing on law enforcement when it comes to fads and fashions.
Sixteen isn't exactly a "child." Until relatively recently, a sixteen-year-old could do most of the things an adult could do.
And if at sixteen you are capable of not only trying to steal somebody's burger but also of going away, getting a gun, coming back and shooting him, then I'd say you've had your chance and you are not likely to improve much beyond that. This isn't some kid who got caught spraying graffiti or swiping hubcaps.
I think he should be tried in the way he will get the most time.
It's a likely probability he would kill again.
You wake up at 1am and say, "what I *need* is a snow cone," and you can find a street vendor selling them...
And people say California is weird?
Posted by: james at May 15, 2009 07:22 PMSometimes I wish we did have a few food vendors operating at that odd hour. Sometimes you really do want a Snow Cone or a good burger at two in the morning.
Posted by: Starla Darling at May 15, 2009 10:39 PM