Authorities say Rick Chow was arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton, who police say was wrongly accused of shoplifting bottles of water from Chow’s store in Columbia, S.C. NBC News’ Valerie Castro shares the latest.
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Kids these days are out of control. Something like this is bound to happen. We should be putting the parents in the spotlight so these kids won’t be a menace to society.
Tired of people saying it could have been me. Well it wasn’t. People only think about themselves.
There won’t be any stores left in black areas. Allowing theft is wrong and people can only take so much.
Black folks better Organize around this one, like they did around Amaud Arbery ! Already the mainstream is denying and disavowing that Anti Black Racism had anything do with this murder ! The “He had a Gun” discourse needs to be interrogated ! This is a common Police tactic to confuse the trajectory, displace blame and ultimately get the Killer off the Hook of Accountability. Sounds like a casual Plant ! We are the Only community where are Children / Youth are targeted by Whites and Asian groups.
Red state dead state. It’s time to up the insurance rates.
Most people seem to support a kid to own a gun here. At least, news media are ok for that. Push it to become a law.
Nobody supports a 14yr old having a gun, we just know how to prioritize what is legally worse. Having a gun on your person that you dont use or a man using a gun and killing a teen after chasing him for blocks.
But he had a gun….
My deepest condolences to the family and God bless you all 🙏 RIP 🙏 🪦
The kid had a gun on him. His parents failed him as most black parents do to their kids.
1:20 Armed thief gets shot. Store owner charged?
Doesn’t really matter your age when you wave guns around at store owners, does it?
His parents and community failed him. What’s a 14 year old going into a store with a hand gun for? Nothing good.
Wrace baited
So the 14 year had a gun on him…no madam that Could Not Be My Child ….my child was taught character and respect . What law allows a 14 year old to carry a gun?
🤔🤔If he did nothing wrong , why did he run ? These small business are not Walmart . They can not close up and move out and the police don’t help them. Think about where you open up a business.
My deepest condolences to that poor gun….tossed away and soon to be melted down.
Wow. So precedence. I feel badly for the store owner that he feared for his life and his store so much, he turned to violence as his method of dissuasion. Unfortunately, maybe if he’d been charged in the earlier incidents he might not have chosen to gun down this boy in cold blood. RIP, young man.
@Seismic64go live or work in their neighborhoods… You won’t!
What are you talking about , he never stole anything
If other people of the same race had stolen many times from this Asian man. Maybe if those people had been prosecuted, this would never have happened!
Stop with all your sadness and stupid rhetoric, it is Black peoples fault. The Black family is almost inexistent. The whole Black community is becoming a fatherless gang of thieves and criminals. Do you have a father in your life???
@zoeyclo yet you have no idea they were stealing before, so keep it up with your BS. Typical ✌🏽
What a sick maniac
They charged him but he’ll never be convicted because you’ll be justified he’ll say he had to chase him down because of whatever whatever whatever and there’ll be somebody on the jury that will go along with it the crime and people doing crazy stuff nobody wants to see criminals get away and even though that he’s in the wrong for chasing them down and shooting them he’ll get away with it most likely
Breathe, dude.
The DA charged him with murder.
He’ll be found guilty.
@Because I can True, years ago there was a murder case in Florida where a robber fled after holding up the store. He was chased down and ran over by the store owner in his truck. IIRC The store owner was charged with second-degree murder.
I don’t understand why people still open shops in these neighborhoods….you get no appreciation, just disrespect and harassments. Then they have the audacity to accused you “they are taking money out of the community” and “we support black businesses.” Go ask your celebrities to open up shop then, or better yet ask Nike since y’all are their biggest customer base.
Scott Adams was right.
Two wrongs, does not make A right.
(But saw this coming, as A reaction to what happen)
I have a solution. Start breeding with light colored people!!!
Or just send them to Africa
I don’t blame him if he snapped. That building needs a good paint to remove all them tags.
Don’t loot or else you will bring the law to control your livelihood. No killing unless they are willing to threat you with a weapon. Just call fhe authority if you know their faces.
Chow will be a multi millionaire in a few days because right-wingers love when someone murders a black person. I’m pretty sure he’s got a Go Fund Me and it will be overflowing with cash. He probably doesn’t need the money but they’ll give it to him anyway.
Right 😂
🤡
i dont know what country this shooter comes from, but here in the united states, shoplifting is not punishable by death. this sarcastic defense of “oh i thought he was shoplifting” is so callous. i hope they release him on personal recognaces until his trial so the victim’s friends can surprise him on the street
So, Bro Chao has a history of “Itchy Trigger Finger syndrome”? With no consequences? No wonder he felt justified in chasing down and murdering that child – just another step in his proven pattern of behavior. This time there need to be consequences – SERIOUS consequences…!
Give the store owner the Death Penalty 💀
I love how no one cares about a 14 year old who had a gun. 😂
Shooting him for water? Talk about extreme.
Racism knows no reason, humanity, conscience, decency, etc.
The kid had a gun and was threatening Chow
@EmLane1991 I suppose you were a fly on the wall!
I hope they release audio what was said. 100s of calls to 911. Owner should just close the store and moved out long time ago. This community isnt supporting the store.
Even if he had taken water, which he didn’t, the callous elder had no right to shoot the fleeing kid in his back. Chiny people just don’t like African Americans despite needing their money.
Funny you call them chiny but you call blacks African Americans. Every race should be careful around blacks including blacks.
Now NBC make it make sense, all y’all main media Outlets pushed that lie that black people was attacking Asians and ran that narrative over and over again until they got their Asian hate crime bill wile anti-black hate is running rampit out of the Asian community this isn’t the first time something like this happened tell the truth were tired of the anti black hate
What about BLM?
He was tired of being robbed by the same usual suspects. We never hear outcrys from all the victims of black criminals
My “child” wouldn’t be carrying a gun. He did the world a favor.
The 14 year old boy had a gun on him. Why? Something is very wrong with that. The media showing him reading and doing his homework is another Treyvon Martin scheme. That kids parents were raising a thug for sure. He was planning to do something and backed down. Now, you don’t shoot a kid in the back running away either. Both parties are at fault for this. I can see how the store owner got fed up with all those people stealing from him and became skeptical of everyone. Don’t operate a business in the black community is the moral of this story. I see the locals looted the place in honor of the victim. Real classy.
Another ANGEL gone to HEAVEN!!!
This is clearly not as cut-and-dry as this reporter want you to think this Portal had a handgun why? And we have to ask why this victim so it was necessary to shoot him? I’d like to know the history behind the store was constantly losing his income to shoplifters was this man constantly being attacked by kids and that community I mean he’s a very small man how many cars has that store or their owners or his children been verbally or maybe even physically attacked this man clearly said he feared for his life he saw the gun everyone keeps saying the kid in pulling on him and how did they explain how the owner would know the kid had a handgun unless they showed it to him
I mean innocent until proven guilty in a court of law isn’t the sheriff admitting that he doesn’t know who pulled there gun first seems like a violation of the law no?
Get that female out of here, this isn’t about her “witnessing” something when we all know she was probably inside when it happened
No well don’t know
what if the kid a gun and tired of all thefts to his store. the kid must face the consequences . the man felt the kid deserved a bullet. I want hear how court will rule
This is for all business owners
Start putting signs in your store window no children under the age of 17 shall enter without a parent that will stop a lot of the robberies right there that means no more children in malls in any store around the country without their parents😮
And if they are in the store without their parents then they get arrested and I would stick to that ever😅
The courts have got to change the laws if they don’t they’re going to be stuck on stupid😮
So they frequently robbed him. But the question to ask the African American community is why can’t you have these basic services of your own in your communities? Baby-Mama-ism have so gutted the black communities the productive people only want out of those communities. And so now only Mr.CHOW will provide these basic service.
I don’t know much about the community there, but I think Asian people really need to stop doing business in the hood. Too much drama.
Put up signs in your business stating no children under the age of 18 shop come in the store without a parent you better put them sign shop if you want to be safer
Murder. Twenty years
He did no wrong.
What was 14 yr.old doing caring conceld weapon.Great kid.
This 14-yr old is a victim of this community’s collective misconducts (he himself included, why was he allowed to carry a gun?; why the community took revenge in terms of looting?), causing shopowners being oversensitive to suspicious behaviors and automatically react with violence.
The kid had a gun… what kid has a gun upto doing good?
Let the store owner go, he is innocent.
Hard to believe he wpope choose to operate a business in that area. So foolsh and now look. He will pay for his bad decisions
2:37 So what you are telling me is that this guy is a shoot first and ask questions later type of killer? Plus, he was never charged with anything over the years. I’m starting to thing he wanted to put the self-defense picture in the cop’s mind but noticed there were witnesses around the area of the shooting. Who knows, maybe the son planted the gun around the scene when no one was looking so they can make their case of self-defense. Even if the teen had a gun, the guy should have not chased the kid. The only thing he had to do was call for the police to take a report and if the kid came back, call the cops again so the cops can issue the kid a trespass from his store. But no, he wanted to be judge, jury, and the executioner!!
After hundreds of shoplifting and only 2 incidents… tells me he’s probably patient man.
@EmLane1991 But even if the kid stole a couple of bottles of water, which he didn’t, that still doesn’t give anyone, and I mean anyone, the justification to shoot someone for shoplifting. And even if someone has a gun on them, if they are running away from the scene, they are absolutely no longer a threat to you. So I say Chow had no patience. He needed an event to happen just that he could justify him firing a shot at someone. Now, if shots were fired inside the store, he would have some justification. But shooting on the run at someone whose back is turned towards you, it has no justification in the eyes of the law. Like from the scene from the movie Bad Boys, the store clerk was ready to pull his gun on two black men. Even though the two black men were cops, he was ready to shoot them. Chow probably has his gun ready for whenever he sees someone black comes in his store, just like the scene in the movie. Well, if anyone feels like that, where they must have a gun ready to shoot someone, they are in the wrong type of business.
there is definitely going to be some rooftop asians again.
Dont open stores in the ghetto. Period
I hope the convenient store man will be ok.
Fleece Johnson will protect him
Okay this is weird did the kid stold anything🤔??or did was just suspected of stealing?
What is the stand your ground law in this state?
As soon as Chow ran off the property with a loaded gun to chase a “thief”, any possiblity of self defense went out the window. At that point, he was looking for blood and deserves to rot in a cage. Even when considering the teen had a gun too, there is much more evidence of Chow being the aggressor in the situation just by the fact he chased the teen well off of the property. Pointless violence and destruction of lifes over cheap merchandise that was not even stolen.
Stand his ground.
He’s a hero
@Merican Modi He ran off his property before shooting. He was no longer on his ground to make a “stand”. That eliminates any stance of self defense and any reason not to put him in prison.
@Dra’lukmun You seem far more concerned with the welfare of criminals, than those who are stopping crime.
This isn’t freeze tag. The criminal isn’t ‘safe’ because he ran past a line
@Merican Modi I am more concerned with the law being followed as it is written. When someone is fleeing, the threat of immediate harm is removed. Simple possession of a firearm does not imply immediate harm, regardless of whether it is legal or not. By both Chow and his son chasing the teen for a crime that was not committed (as there was no theft), they were the aggressors, and it makes Chow’s violenece illegal. Emotions or views of morality do not change anything.
So just because he have a gun, he deserved to lose his life? He did not use his gun on the store, owner or threaten the store owner with his gun. Some of you all are perpetually evil and your hearts are stained with so much hatred. It’s no secret why most of you feel the way you feel. What you tolerate you fertilize. Understand what you accept, please be this understanding when it happens to you or a loved one of yours.
Yes.
He deserved to lose his life.
For sure.
What do the “Stop Asian Hate” advocates think about this?
What does everyone including other black people think when they keep seeing their kind being criminals everywhere
Beyond disturbing. This store owner should be prosecuted to the fullest extent SC law will allow.
What about the other people who had stolen and never punished?
So should the kids parents.
You can’t shoot someone, just because of what ypu think or what you thought you seen thief.
I love how so many people leave out the fact that the kid had a gun…
If some other teen criminal shot the store owner, the media wouldn’t care beyond local news.
The little POS had a gun. He was no angel as the news portrays him. One piece of trash gone, many more to go. Defend you property, don’t expect the government to help.
He was armed with a gun
What a pity..he would have been better off cashing out from the ATM with skimmed cards
Good for the shop keeper
Wasn’t even stealing.
Protestors? Not. Vandalism is not protest. It is call riot. Police no longer protect law abiding business owners who pay taxes. 14 year old with gun…..not normal.
Lets see the security camera footage first.
Another BLM bite the dust.
You wanna know how to fix this problem?
Stop letting the coloreds in stores deal with them through a bullet proof window
It must be hard owning a shop when you have teens with guns shoplifting every other day.
This America, and in every city. Where TF your brain is at.
Bring back stop and frisk
JUST ANOTHER NORMAL DAY IN AMERICA
So the teen had a gun
Wow Chinese did something right to protect itself
Black on black is like everyday
#stopasianhate … Got it…
Stop Black looting first
Literally 90% of the shootings are BP shooting each other….
So should we not judge blacks everytime one of y’all get on the news? Bc then that would impossible!
@EmLane1991 Spoken like a true white supremist… Blacks are OVER REPRESENTED in the media for crimes. White people commit MORE crime (According to FBI crime data), the media just doesn’t show it… Do your research. BTW this child did NOTHING wrong.
Shot IN THE BACK for 4 bottles of water? The cost of a human life.
The water was worth more than the life.
Sounds like B’s if he lied about the kid stealing the water who’s to say where that gun came from
This 🤡 talking about someone property when that man took that young man’s life . KOON Rest in Power young man and may his family find peace during this difficult time
The property is more important
👂 A gun was planted by the Asian man son. The child did not have a gun 👍
Why did an 8th grader have a gun?
Those kids shoplift all the time.. HE HAD A GUN.. 14 yrold THUG
If this owner store were white the black is dead for free…….!!!!!!!!! White Supremacy is still use again the black and Asian community……!!!!!!!!!!
It is always a Black male involved, whether it is a Black men shooting or being shot.. How about you Black people start marching to restore the Black family to include a father. How about that ???
Kid deserved to die
For what existing
He shouldn’t have owned a store in the ghetto. I’m sure that a a 14 year old kid running around
with a pistol was just heading to church.
Wrong! I hope he rotts in jail: there is a duty to retreat in these situations, ESPECIALLY, when the murderer was not in life or death danger. If you play the vigilante card, we’ll visit you in jail. Well, not even that tbh. 😊
I support the store owner. Stealing is all those people do.
Thank you for taking out the trash sir❤
We have to boycott these owners that come into our communities killing our kids! Stop supporting their stores! They dont like us!
Sad sad, I feel for both of them and their families. Now I need the protesters to take that same energy when blacks keep killing blacks
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All I’m hearing is he shoplifted but no evidence of what he took. Also hearing the kid had a gun yet no evidence it’s his gun. Chao and his son chased him….. how do we know it wasn’t planted by the kid? Store camera footage didn’t show the teen had any weapon nor did he threaten with a weapon. What we do know is this grown man ran behind a kid and shot him proclaiming shoplifting
That’s how they really feel about black people. Cop already preparing the cover story
“chased him several blocks before shooting him”
So you chased someone you knew had a gun?
Yep, throw him in jail forever, clearly murder. Open and shut case.
it couldnt be my child , not many child stealing and carry a gun at 14 years old