Washington, D.C., prosecutors charged a city official with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake earlier this month. NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor has the latest on the investigation as authorities reveal the teen shouted “I am a kid” to his alleged killer.
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The shooter was Black = No riots.
Reading these Comments. These NARCISSISTIC SADISTIC RACISTS. Co signing Killing a child begging for his life. Over a freaking car. Why didn’t he just hold the kid for the police? Lol white kids Killing their entire families. BUT this kid should die over stealing.. YOU RACISTS POS IS THE NUMBER ONE REASON AMERICA IS SUCH A FK UP COUNTRY. MAY ALL YOUR KIDS THAT MAKES A MISTAKE GET THE SAME FATE AS THIS KID..
Lmfao you’re everything you claim to hate.
The kid was caught committing a crime and there were gun fire EXCHANGES….
The media want riots soooo bad
One less criminal off the streets, who cares what age it was.
Let me guess. He was acting like a thug maybe🤷
The US in a nutshell…they are just living on another planet!
The lesson here: The media and the progressives in the justice system will prosecute YOU if you try to protect your property. Criminals are more important to them.
Yep. Louis will receive good jailhouse lovin when all is said and done.
lol imagine
One less young Thug GOOD RIDDANCE
For those of you trying to justify because a crime was committed, this isn’t the wild wild west. You do not shoot people who are posing no threat to you, especially kids. Stealing a parked car doesn’t pose a threat to you.
Same o same o. How about we charge the parents or parent for this young thug being out in the wee hours of the morning! Let me guess, he had dreams and was a good kid.
where daddy be
Not guilty…….
Nobody cares.
“I am sorry…..for being a thief.”
“Please don’t…..defend your hard earned property from my vandalism.”
“I’m just a kid……who thinks it’s my right to take what I want with no consequences because We Wuz Kangs…”
*Fixed
Discipline and monitor your children
Charge the friends with his murder.
I don’t understand why some people aren’t arrested for months after killing 🙄
We all know what time it is. It’s time for a game of darts target practice.
😢
Just another thug….no parenting, Just making babies
Imagine breaking into a car and the owner retaliating, what a wild outcome. People break into my car where I live, I hope this story sends shock into their lives.
Turning into the Wild, wild West days across America!!
Lol these people are so dumb.. standing up for losers.. mind blowing 🤯
DONT SHOOT THE GUY STEALING YOUR CAR BECAUSE HE DIDNT DESERVE IT… lol read that out loud a few times
“They were going into cars”. Did I hear the Police Chief correctly? No Chief, they were breaking into cars, like thieves. and were caught by a citizen who is tired of all of the lawlessness in America. Police Chief trying to sugar coat a felony action.
NOT GUILTY
This is sad… A neighbor tired of the crime wave happening in DC, the police is useless, a 13 year old committing a crime at 3.30am! Lack of parenting.. And a family now potentially losing a father and husband because of these failures. The system is falling its citizens!
He a kid to die but not a kid to steal late at night…hate the fact that people make the criminal a victim..parents crying for justice but why u not blaming yourself for not making sure he was home..
Kia boy down smh. Why would he run towards the man shooting the gun at you.
Parent’s rather get them 8hr of sleep instead of keeping an eye on your kid smh ain’t the first or last time this will happen.
a 13 year old still in Elementary school
Lets start there
He is out breaking into cars
Shot by somebody his same color but somehow its yts fault
At 3 AM, 13 yo was in the streets, getting into cars. Hmm. Sum ting wrong here.
A kid. Say no to guns. 📡👽🇺🇸 RUN!!!
13 year Olds out at 3 am in the morning wtf.
hear me out, i did that n this is why i stop fastttt he knew the danger he took it n died
No one is asking the most salient question: why was a 13 year old looking into cars with a flashlight at 3 am?
The good lord is real. Protect all children.
Why is your 13year old outside at 3am tryna break into cars?
if y’all are justifying this kid’s death for stealing I hope y’all maintain that energy for all the company board members participating in stock buybacks while laying off tens of thousands of workers because it costs a TON more than anything this boy would have done
Does god forgive you while dying in sin???????????????????
Kid or not, if the parents can’t control the kid, a bullet will. If you raise a thug you can look forward to these results.
Thats about the stupidest thing ive ever heard your son goes out to rob cars and gets shot and that not the parents fault?
The thumbnail that NBC News used to lure in viewers is that of what looks like an innocent young teen. Why don’t they show what he really looked like at 3am busting into cars? You can’t cry out that you’re a kid and do “adult” crimes. That’s not a pass. Sad that his parents have to suffer like this for values they weren’t able to instill in him.
DEAR LORD PLEASE COMFORT THE BEREAVED AS ONLY YOU CAN! IN THE NAME OF JESUS! 🙏🏼
I had to get up at 4 a.m. to get ready for work in Chicago’s loop, so I went to bed EARLY. Well my son told me (after he was WAY grown) that he used to wait till I went to sleep to go out. What can I say? I never had a clue!
I took him to church every Sunday and he was in the choir. PLEASE DEAR LORD, SAVE my son. In the name of JESUS! 🙏🏼💞🙌🏼
The boy’s family failed him. Who lets their kid out of the house in the middle
Of the night. Tragic. Family taking zero responsibility indicates this type of thing will continue to happen
It’s a shame that an innocent man will have to go to prison for eliminating a future predator.
He was literally a child. You are terrible.
@@singlove9532 He was a worthless criminal, and now he’s a worthless corpse.
Black people are dangerous neighbor…i live in baltimore
Kids should have been at home sleep, instead of trying to steal cars. NOT GUILTY 👨⚖
I see black childrens stealing and parent blaming.the innocent
raise your kids better we would not have this problem he was a future scum bag in the making nothing lost here
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 so sad R.I.P 🕊💐
Yep ..so sad the shooter has been arrested.
That kid was up to no good, that man is a legal gun owner who sounds like was protecting himself. It’s unfortunate that kid was killed but how is that man supposed to know someones age at that time at night when someone is suspiciously holding flashlights then comes toward you. Something is seriously wrong if he gets charged for that kids consequences that he brought upon himself. How come those outraged folks didn’t say anything about his own responsibility and the parents lack of supervision and obvious other skills.
Change your culture you make being a gang member seem cool to these kids. 13 year old kids are killing people and each other every day in the ghettos
Play adult games you get adult consequences
Mom should have taught him not to be out after 12
im just wondering .. what would these people say if the kid had a gun and shot this man instead .. ?
out breaking into cars. strarting his life of crime. that rap music encourages these young thugs to be thugs. boom boom ba boom, gunna rob me a liki stoe boomboom ba boom an gets shot doin it.
We teach our children when they are away from us they do things we do not approve. Yet I hope we can think more before using the gun.
All the criminals coming out to support this 13 year old dead thug. The law abiding citizens say he got what he deserved. Who wants to bet the 13 year olds parents are thugs with rap sheets? Remember criminals support other criminals and DC is itself approx 40% criminals with a rap sheet. The only good news is the shooter wasted that lowlife.
Drop the charges!
STOP LYING!
who would have thought breaking in to cars at 3 am might be dangerous?
good riddance to this little thug….
Check out how the Fake news is making this useless POS thug out to be an Angel and all the thugs and criminals are rallying around the thug parents looking for Justice. But what can you expect from a city thats 30-40% criminal minded from the mayor on down.
I;m surprised that DC didn’t make it a racial thing by now so the shooter who is a legal gun owner probably is black. If he was white they would be burning the city down by now. Or perhaps he is white and refusing to release his picture to save the city from crumbling.🤔
He shot that lil guy MORE THAN ONCE AND CAUSED HIS DEATH , I SAY LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE , end of discussion
Yeh…he shot that POS…..10xs would have been fine by me. Funny how criminals rally around and support other criminals. If the POS were home in bed he might be still breathing today.
@Nicky Naime it’s not that much hate in the world , you must can’t have kids cause why he a POS AND HE APOLOGIZED, YALL cowards , I’m old now , had I been younger I’ll be trynna find you but GOD SAID VENGEANCE IS MINES AND IT IS , be great god bless
The problem is NOT OUR GUNS, the problem is YOUR SONS!
Kid was a thug in the making mom and dad didn’t do their job as a parent . Mr Louis had every right to defend himself and property.
It is sad. A young man, his age, in 1897 was killed with a musket ball. It’s still sad today.
There aren’t any elders. They’re just greedy old people now. What do you expect from these young people you bred hate into him. These people performing these killings have no clue what they’re doing. No elder ever touched these humans
More trash crawled out to put more effort into protesting a criminal then they put effort into anything in their life. If they put as much effort as they do shilling for a criminal into raising their children or getting a job then their community would be better. But instead cry and whine and act like a victim. Sick of it tbh, making everyone elses life a misery.
So kids up to no good and get shot
Those family’s condone that form of behavior. . I taught my kids don’t steal Work hard get educated
The mayor job is to make citizens feel safe enough that they don’t have to have a gun that’s bs Keep youth safe it the new youth that’s destroying this country
Kid deserves it 😂 he should’ve known better and stayed home but nope. Ghetto people deserve it.
Kid would have been dead by the time he was 18, anyway.
Who wants to live in areas these people live in? Always blaming others for their behaviors
The people here crying are the people responsible … they set the stage for for their youth actions
Two wrongs don’t make it right and either case in my humble opinion 🤔
Ship em back
Wow how can you live with yourself
My heart and prayers go out to his family.
Playing or breaking into someone else’s car? 3 or 4 am in the morning and your kid is sneaking out of your house? Oh, something is definitely not good.🤔🇺🇸
Kids breaking into cars is not a capital crime. But unfortunately criminal activity leads to a criminal lifestyle and eventually death. Too bad for Karon death came sooner than later. Hopefully his death will send a message to future thugs. If anyone should be charged it should be the kids Karon was with.
Don’t go stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things. If you look for trouble, you will find it.
The “kid” should not have been out at 3:00 am looking to steal stuff in cars. He approached the gun owner who did not know if he was armed or not. Natural Selection..
Free Jason Lewis. People are tired of these out of control teens terrorizing the city.
Was the car a KIA or Hyundai. Why was the 13 years outside at 4am in the morning? These are the real questions. COME ON NBC WE REQUEST BETTER REPORTING.
Mothers do your dam job. This child shouldn’t have been out at 3:00 am in the morning.
what was his grandad wearing
I’m sorry but anybody that’s inside of my car that I don’t know is a direct threat to the safety of me and my family. If the parents or Guardians did their job the boy would not have been participating in the activity that eventually cost him his life. Law-abiding citizens need to be empowered to protect themselves their families and their property because the state has proven incapable of facilitating a society that promotes two-parent households and communities that teach children and adolescents the fundamentals of morality with consequences for wrongdoings.
I can remember back to the time I was thirteen years old. I only feared two things and those things were God and my father. This is absent from society at this moment in time buy government design and these things continue to happen unless that changes.
Seems like he got just what he was looking for.
When I was 11 and my brother was 12 we were out late one evening coming home we playing hiding go seeing with a bunch of others being silly. Hiding behind cars scaring each other. When a guy came hind my brother thinking we were stealing.. we were only playing a game as were only walking back home just being kids on a late summer night. Now in America I’m horrified that we as children can be killed just for playing a game on a late summer night. This is insanity. Our guns laws are only protecting sociopaths
I lived on Quincy St. NE for 17 years. This man is disgusting!!!! Along with the chief of police and the mayor! No thanks for doing your job weeks after this devastating crime!
What that psycho with the weapon did was wrong, but what those kids did were doing was wrong also.
It’s outside. You call the cops. You don’t go outside and shoot up the street. It is horrible that a 13 yo is thinking about committing a crime at 0300.
That poor child. 13 years old! WTF. There is absolutely NO excuse for this. I’m so sick of living like this in US. You literally never know when you or your child will get murdered.