{"id":65193,"date":"2020-06-29T01:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=65193"},"modified":"2020-06-29T01:52:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:52:33","slug":"2-teenage-boys-shot-death-asking-man-tall-buying-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=65193","title":{"rendered":"2 teenage boys shot to death after asking man how tall he was while buying candy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two teenage boys were shot to death after asking the suspect how tall he was when they were buying candy from a store.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday June 20 after three teenage boys went to a store in South Chicago to buy some candy and ended up having a brief encounter with 19-year-old Laroy Battle inside the establishment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe victims were walking into the store, they saw Battle, he was standing in line while at the store and the victims commented that Battle, he was quite tall, and they asked him how tall he was and hoped to be that tall someday,\u201d said Deputy Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan \u201cUnfortunately, we will never even see the full growth of these poor children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three teenage boys then left the store and proceeded to walk home together when police say that Battle approached them and began shooting.<\/p>\n

Jasean Francis, 17, was shot in the back, chest and left hand. Charles Riley, 16, was shot in the back and left leg. The third teen, who was not identified, managed to escape the gunfire. Both of the boys who were shot were taken to University of Chicago Hospital and later died from the injuries they suffered during the shooting.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe security cameras from the area were able to show the offender discarding a gun in the garbage can and then Battle was eventually found hiding out in a motel \u2026 He was arrested without incident.\u201d Deenihan announced in the press conference.<\/p>\n

Police also said that they recovered nine shell casings from the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n

A prayer vigil to honor the two teenagers was held on Friday night near the scene of the shooting.<\/p>\n

“He was a kid,” said Jasean Francis’ aunt Latonya Pettit, according to\u00a0ABC News\u2019 Chicago station WLS. “Liked video games, snacks. That was his thing. He would walk into this hospital gift shop daily and purchase snacks.”<\/p>\n

“He was nice to seniors on the block,” said another of Francis\u2019 aunts, Keena Hoyle. “The nurses looked forward to him coming over there daily. They brought over to the family roses. They watched him grow up as a child.”<\/p>\n

Authorities are still trying to understand the motive behind the shootings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no altercation,\u201d said Deenihan. \u201cThere was nothing that would have set off Battle to be angry at these kids. He is about 6\u20193\u201d, 6\u20194\u201d, and they literally just asked him how tall he was because he is extremely tall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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