16 Year Old Intruder Killed in Attempted Robbery

[NCSoxFan]

This one hits pretty close to home. Less than 10 miles down the road.
Hoke businessman kills 16-year-old in attempted robbery :: WRAL.com

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[OldVet]

There's a short criminal career.

[mbguy29577]

Being an armed criminal is dangerous work at any age. I like how they showed such a sweet picture of the kid. Should have used the morgue shot to scare others with similar ideas.

[DSRTEAGLE357]

16 26 36 46 you don't go around robbing people

[high pockets]

"Those three people who were with him – they coerced him somehow," she said. "They threatened my son and my daughter. I know he thought he was protecting them, protecting his family."

That's why he had the rifle.

[PB2]

And of course his mother says it's very out of character for him. Blah, blah, blah. Every time something like this happens there is some family member who insists their boy/brother/nephew/cousin/whatever would never do such a thing.

[Bark'n]

Sheriff's investigators arrested two people– Amie Lynette Ross and Lewis Vega – in the case Monday afternoon and were still looking for a fourth person.

Ross, 27, of 128 Park Place Mobile Home Park in Raeford, and Vega, 21, of 308 Providence Way in Aberdeen, both face charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon, felony breaking and entering, conspiracy to commit armed robbery and aid and abet of an armed robbery.

All that is well and good, but they need to be facing felony murder charges for the death of their compadre.

There needs to be a reckoning for the death of their fellow robber, and they are the ones who need to pay the tab for that one.

[mulle46]

That happens here if a crime leads to death of a perpetrator.

[RMS]

Good for the owner of American Mattress for not taking the robbery lying down.

[JoJoGunn]

I don't understand why young kids wish to engage in this sort of thing, I guess it's for the thrills.

The dead kid's last name is Frame, a family that I am distantly related to here in West Virginia. We have a small area in Kanawha Co named Frametown after three Scottish brothers who came to that area in the late 1700's and my ancestor was David Frame a man in the Virginia Militia during the Revolution. Some of the Frame family did migrate south to the Carolinas.

It's odd to see that name and associate it with crime but it happens.

[Rock and Glock]

You sayin' he was Framed?

[TX expat]

There's a short criminal career.

Yeah it's sad but true. The OJT that comes with being an armed robber isn't always the most forgiving. Maybe the next would be criminal will think twice. Or not...

[wishyouwell]

All that is well and good, but they need to be facing felony murder charges for the death of their compadre.

There needs to be a reckoning for the death of their fellow robber, and they are the ones who need to pay the tab for that one.

In TX, they very well might be...

[NCSoxFan]

When I read this article I couldn't help but think of the 18 year old Penelope Soto who's court room antics went viral when the judge slammed her with contempt after she flipped him off. Too often these kids are never challenged or held accountable by any true authority figure and they turn into criminals with no respect for authority or concept of personal responsibility.
I applaud this business owner for doing the right thing. It's a shame that he now has to live with the burden of taking a young life.

[JoJoGunn]

You sayin' he was Framed?

You could say that. He also will be "framed" inside a steel coffin for quite some time as well.