WW2 vet attacked and beaten to death

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**Ouze**

That crack angle seems exceedingly dubious. I don't know many octogenarians who slang rocks.

**Jimsolo**

Relapse wrote:
Jimsolo wrote:
I thought I read initially that Demetrius Glenn turned himself in voluntarily, rather than being caught by police. That at least indicates the possibility of some kind of remorse, that the intent was never to kill Belton. (Or at least that his wasn't.)

"Elderly white war hero savagely beaten to death by underage black sociopaths!" is a great headline, but it's hardly likely to be that sensational, or that cut and dried. It's not like I'm ever going to get to see any kind of objective truth about what happened, but I'd like to believe that at least one of the kids was in a situation that got out of his control. (The other one, though, (Adams, I think?) seems like a real psychopath.)

I think the most likely scenario is that the piece of gak who turned himself in did so out of hope for a lighter sentence. The dude was in on beating a 5 foot tall, 88year old man to death, then tried to say he cheated him in a crack deal. Deapest, darkest dungeon for life, the both of them if found guilty, if not the death penalty.

The one who turned himself in isn't the one claiming it was a crack deal gone wrong, I thought. From what I read, it's just the other one claiming that. Or did I read it wrong?

**Relapse**

Jimsolo wrote:
Relapse wrote:
Jimsolo wrote:
I thought I read initially that Demetrius Glenn turned himself in voluntarily, rather than being caught by police. That at least indicates the possibility of some kind of remorse, that the intent was never to kill Belton. (Or at least that his wasn't.)

"Elderly white war hero savagely beaten to death by underage black sociopaths!" is a great headline, but it's hardly likely to be that sensational, or that cut and dried. It's not like I'm ever going to get to see any kind of objective truth about what happened, but I'd like to believe that at least one of the kids was in a situation that got out of his control. (The other one, though, (Adams, I think?) seems like a real psychopath.)

I think the most likely scenario is that the piece of gak who turned himself in did so out of hope for a lighter sentence. The dude was in on beating a 5 foot tall, 88year old man to death, then tried to say he cheated him in a crack deal. Deapest, darkest dungeon for life, the both of them if found guilty, if not the death penalty.

The one who turned himself in isn't the one claiming it was a crack deal gone wrong, I thought. From what I read, it's just the other one claiming that. Or did I read it wrong?

Doesn't much matter either way what he says or does as far as I'm concerned since he helped beat an old man to death. I hope they put him and his buddy where they never again see sunlight.