Police have arrested two teenagers in the homicide of Congressman Danny Davis' grandson Jovan/Javon Wilson. The 15-year-old was killed in his own Englewood home in Chicago Friday evening by two teenagers who were acquaintances. Of course, Danny Davis blames guns, not the utterly asocial monsters who shouldn't have been on the street in the first place (thanks to soft-on-crime prosecutors, judges and county officials).
So, what precipitated the whole incident? Basketball shoes.
The Chicago Sun-Times has details:
Police say a dispute over gym shoes led to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Javon Wilson.
About 6:45 p.m. Friday, Wilson was inside his home in the 5600 block of South Princeton when two people came in, started arguing with him and then shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and a statement from the congressman.
Wilson was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:32 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
“I grieve for my family,” Davis said. “I grieve for the young man who pulled the trigger. I grieve for his family, his parents, his friends, some of whom will never see him again.”
…Davis said he was told a 15-year-old boy traded slacks for gym shoes with Wilson’s 14-year-old brother and went to Wilson’s house with a 17-year-old girl to reverse the trade when the boy shot Wilson.
…Davis wondered how the 15-year-old boy obtained a gun and who allowed him to have it. He said the answer is that “the availability of guns is so prevalent in America you almost can’t tell who has a gun” anymore.
The Chicago Tribune has suspect information:
A 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were ordered held without bail Sunday after being charged with murder in the shooting death of Jovan Wilson, the grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis.
Tariq M. Harris, 16, and Dijae T. Banks, 17, are charged as adults with first-degree murder in an attack that started as a fight over clothes and shoes, police and prosecutors said. The pair were taken into custody Saturday.
Harris, of the 8100 block of South Loomis Boulevard, and Banks, of the 12000 block of South Indiana Avenue, appeared before Cook County Judge James Brown wearing juvenile detention center sweatshirts and with their heads bowed.
And a clearer picture of what happened, including the fact that the female had the gun initially.
Jovan was at his home in the 5600 block of South Princeton Avenue with an uncle, a family friend, his 16-year-old sister, 14-year-old brother and 8-year-old brother when Harris and Banks arrived and knocked on the back door, according to Assistant State's Attorney Bryan Grissman. The teen's mother had left the home to pick up food.
Jovan and his 16-year-old sister went to the door and looked out, recognizing Harris and Banks as friends of the 14-year-old brother, Grissman said. Banks and the 14-year-old had been trading clothes for weeks prior to the shooting. Banks said she wanted to retrieve some shoes she had lent to the 14-year-old in exchange for a pair of pants, according to Grissman.
The 14-year-old brother did not want to return the shoes without first retrieving the pants he had lent to Banks, Grissman said. When the 14-year-old opened the door a crack to talk to Banks, Harris and Banks forced open the door and entered the home, Grissman said. Banks pulled out a handgun and began threatening Jovan's sister with it, Grissman said.
Banks then handed the gun to Harris and began to fight with Jovan's sister, Grissman said. As this altercation was going on, Harris repeatedly slid the safety mechanism on the gun back and forth, Grissman said. Jovan intervened to break up the fight between Banks and his sister.
Banks then punched Jovan in the face with a closed fist, and Jovan reciprocated by punching Banks, Grissman said. Banks became angry that Harris "was allowing the siblings to treat her this way," Grissman said.
Harris took a step back, raised the gun and fired it once, Grissman said, striking Jovan in the neck. As Jovan fell to the ground, Harris and Banks fled the home through the back door, Grissman said.
"How dare you let them disrepect me!"
Not surprisingly, Second City Cop has more details:
The offenders are in custody.
So many things I want to say about this case, but I can't, for legal reasons.
And the rant would be endless.
I'll leave it at this: there is NO REASON the offender should have ben on the street. Actually, scratch that…there are LAWS THAT PROHIBITED THIS OFFENDER BEING ALLOWED TO BE ON THE STREET, THAT WERE PURPOSELY BYPASSED.
I hope every person involved, JUDGE, HEAD JUDGE, PRICKWINKEL, and every other bastard that intentionally did not follow mandated sentencing guidelines, serves time for this one.
So Danny Davis wants more gun control laws when his fellow Democrats won't even enforce existing laws against predatory felons.
Meanwhile, Danny Davis hasn't been shy about his criminal pals. From Second City Cop:
So, not to rain on anyone's parade, but what matters again? And not to put too fine a point on things, this is Danny Davis' west side office in 012
Davis has embraced radical, violent persons for years, accepting the endorsement of notorious convicted felon "Gator" Bradley and traveling to Sri Lanka as guest of the Tamil Tigers, a known terrorist organization. We aren't blaming Davis for the death of his grandchild, whom he obviously cared deeply for. But if you embrace a violent culture, you can't be surprised when violence visits you at your doorstep.
Danny Davis would just as soon drink his own urine as blame his fellow Democrats for creating the conditions that got his grandson killed.
Yea. I just heard him say we've got to get rid of the guns , not only in Chicago. But everywhere…. Never did he ever say anything about the gangs in Chicago. This is how they think up there I guess . Call off the police and let em thin the herd .
Dead over a pair of goddamn basketball shoes! Only in the ghettoes of Chicago.
How is that gun control plantation werkin out for you?
Black lives don't matter!
He could have been a "democrat politician ".