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An 11-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a daylight attack in Houston Tuesday afternoon.
The child, identified by police as Josue Flores, was walking home from school near the 1900 block of Fulton Street when he was approached by his attacker.
Witnesses said they heard loud screaming and saw the child struggling with a man on the sidewalk around 4:45pm, according to the Houston Police Department.
The boy then collapsed on a nearby patch of grass with multiple stab wounds, police said. He was transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after the attack, which police called 'unprovoked.'
Witnesses said they saw a man fleeing the scene on foot, going north on Fulton Street.
Che Lajuan Calhoun, 31, was identified as a suspect in the killing.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3596819/Houston-boy-11-stabbed-death-way-home-school-31-year-old-man-loose.html#ixzz493MtcpEb
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Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)moonbabygo
(281 posts)saddens me to think about it. How can you kill a child? What could this precious child have done or was it random act of killing?
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...feels safe walking anywhere, and how I didn't understand it because I never feel 'safe'. While this kind of thing is unlikely to ever happen to me and I'm aware of that, unlikely does not mean won't. It's also unlikely someone's car is stalled at the bottom of the blind left turn in our park -- in fact, in 40+ years of life I'd never seen it happen before today -- but if I'd had my eyes closed, I'd be dead now. Please be aware, DU friends. Please.
My heart goes out to this family. Their troubles have only begun.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)I have lived places where I felt unsafe I have also lived places where I would walk the streets at 3 am without a second thought.
derpderpderp
(43 posts)uppityperson
(115,678 posts)derpderpderp
(43 posts)The hospital told us they had released him after a 24-hour evaluation, saying he was fine. He had been diagnosed bi-polar and schizophrenic. My wife picked him up wandering the streets near the hospital. Four days later he committed suicide with a gunshot to the head.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Identical in fact.
moriah
(8,311 posts)... don't kill anyone other than themselves.
http://abc13.com/news/us-marshals-nab-man-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-boy/1343138/
He may have issues, or may not, but a competency evaluation is standard to cover the arse of any prosecutor.
moonbabygo
(281 posts)a budget crises programs for the disturbed are the first to get cut. When Reagun shut down all those mental institutions in the 80s most of those people became street people and the crime rate went up. So what did we do about it, we hired more cops.
derpderpderp
(43 posts)It was opened in 1856 with about 2500 acres for housing, farming, campuses, etc. All the patients were transferred to already crowded institutions. Today only 300 acres is left due to sell offs in the past. Raleigh decided to turn this land into a destination park.
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)linuxman
(2,337 posts)Rest in peace, kid.
mahina
(17,693 posts)Heard all the arguments.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)they need. What would it look like if we did that?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)fear for your children. I hope the sweet little boy is at peace.
malaise
(269,157 posts)The suspect should be receiving mental health care. Those are not the eyes of a sane person.
What a beautiful little boy - so wrong.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)n/t
Marengo
(3,477 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)and hang them
Marengo
(3,477 posts)Not sure I'm interested in allocating state resources which are already in short supply for the maintenance of this animal. Because, after this, that's all it is going forward.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)who is the animal again?
Marengo
(3,477 posts)And executing this individual based on his actions would be in the interest of public safety, not to satisfy any personal desire.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)to take petty violence fantasies out on the mentally ill person, no matter how horrible their crime.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)The paddington frisk regardless.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)If you look down thread. Yet you already had him on the gallows.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)he should hang without a trial and conviction. My statement presupposes this, but I think you know that. My point, if your not being deliberately obtuse, is that mental illness shouldn't spare whoever committed this act the noose. But, again, I think you know this. Take your schtick somewhere else, I don't buy it.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)no jail time should be given here, just some mental health help. He will then add value to society and the neighborhood he lives in.
JI7
(89,261 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)But lets be honest, some people are just fucking evil and violent. The suspect may be mentally ill but he for sure is a murder who has to pay for the death of this poor kid.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)This is a "suspect" people, not a convicted killer.
Quackers
(2,256 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)I did not read the link. Why were US Marshals involved in this kind of crime?
Quackers
(2,256 posts)As a society, we defer to the legal system to determine innocence or guilt in an official capacity. That doesn't mean personal opinion or even common sense has no place here. Multiple witnesses seen this man grab the poor boy and stab him repeatedly. The boy has died as a result of the stab wounds. Common sense tells us that this man is guilty of killing the boy. Officially, the legal system has already determined that this man is probably guilty. They used this probable cause to arrest and detain him.
uponit7771
(90,351 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Poor little boy! It pains me to know how terrified he must have been in his last moments.
renate
(13,776 posts)I just can't get him out of my mind... he looks a lot (especially his smile) like someone I love very much, which is probably part of it, but also I'm just so heartsick over the pointlessness of an innocent life being cut so short and so horribly.
Thank goodness the killer has been caught. The family's grief is already unbearable, but it would have been even worse to think of the murderer getting away scot free.
renate
(13,776 posts)... maybe he really will get away with it.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/05/murderer-is-still-on-the-loose-after-charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-stabbing-houston-boy.html/
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)RIP