14-Year-Old Killed by Gang in Suburban Maryland

[RamboLiberal]

Christopher Jones, 14, lived in a Maryland suburb that was seemingly so orderly that his neighborhood regulated the color of the shutters.

But the Crofton boy died the afternoon of Saturday, May 30, just blocks away from his home in a manner more fitting to the most dangerous parts of the country -- the victim of a brutal gang beating that left him bleeding and dying on the street, police said.

It was a violent fate that the boy's mother, Jenny Adkins, had been fighting to prevent for weeks ever since her son told her he had been threatened by a neighborhood gang at school.

According to Jones' aunt, Adkins contacted her son's school to tell them about the threats more than a month ago. Then Adkins moved the boy to a different school and kept in close contact with him through text messaging.

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"He died on our street in suburbia where we paid $350,000 for a townhouse in a neighborhood where our shutters have to match our doors," she said.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7779003&page=1

Guess MSM starts paying attention when it happens in suburbia.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The television news in the DC-Balt. area is repleat with gang violence. They've been paying

attention.

[TheWraith]

2. Gee, who would have guessed?

Being anal-retentive authoritarians about shutters and flagpoles really doesn't make you safer.

[ecstatic]

3. Awful tragedy. And good point about the MSM finally

taking notice.

[Blue_Tires]

4. uh...gang activity is probably stronger in some certain suburbs

than the worst parts of the city due to the higher numbers of teens living there, and D.C. suburbs have huge, insular pockets of asian and central american immigrant communities...

and I know the mother is grieving, but her 'I-thought-we-could-just-move-away-from-it-all-to-a-nice-neighborhood' mindset is kinda naive...and fwiw the MSM has paid some attention to the D.C. metro area, which has the most violent, quickly growing gang infestations in the nation...

[On the Road]

5. Wow --

That is not the part of suburban Maryland I would have thought. Crofton is closer to Annapolis than DC or Balimore and well away from any dangerous neighborhoods. Next we'll be hearing about gun battles in Chevy Chase.

There's got to be more to the story -- a 14-year-old riding his bicycle? What could have happened for him to be targeted like that?