Olney teen dead in snowball incident

[Akoto]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

An Olney teen died today from a gunshot to the head after a confrontation with an adult who was hit with a snowball in Feltonville, police said.

It was Teven Rutledge's 16th birthday when he was shot while sitting on the steps of a friend's rowhouse in the 4800 block of D Street at 3:37 p.m. yesterday, police said.

He was pronounced dead at 11:34 a.m. at Temple University Hospital, police said.

Rutledge, of the 400 block of Lindley Avenue, was with friends throwing snowballs when one hit a passing adult in the face, Chief Inspector Keith Sadler said.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20080225_Feltonville_teen_critical__shot_after_throwing_snowball.html

[sakabatou]

1. Man... people's anger

Condolences to his family.

[angstlessk]

2. according to the gun nuts ... if only that teen had been shooting bullets rather than throwing

snow balls he would be alive today!

[fascisthunter]

4. And If He Didn't Have a Gun He'd.... nevermind

Yes. Their arguments border on insane.

[sepulveda]

6. what's really sad

is those who use a tragic incident to make a cheap political point, all the while using derisive and intolerant terms such as 'gun nuts' to describe those that merely stand up for civil rights, including the right ot bear arms.

that's pretty lame imo.

i don't see any "gun nuts" saying what you are saying.

i just see those who wish to troll doing that.

[angstlessk]

8. honey, I am on my second life here at DU..been here since 2001 the early days

the answer to all gun nuts is MORE GUNS...and they claim if the person shot only shot first they would not be dead! sorry if America was founded on an erroneous idea that guns create peace..they thought slavery was good too, remember?

[Tempest]

9. "i don't see any "gun nuts" saying what you are saying"

Not yet you don't.

But it's still early.

[damntexdem]

7. Snowballs don't make nutcases shoot --

people throwing snowballs make nutcases shoot.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Oh, last I hear he was still alive. Very sad to hear this!!!!

[phantom power]

5. On a tangent, we can expect more of this as vets come home with PTSD.

And also as the economy continues to put people in a vise. At least, that's what I tend to think these days when I see this kind of insane over-reaction. It's the response of somebody who's already on the edge for other reasons.

[madmom]

11. that's it in a nutshell, there has to be an underlying reason that people like this

think it's alright to "solve" their problems (real or imagined)like this.

[tekisui]

10. Snowballs don't kill people....

Guns kill people.

[laconicsax]

12. Sounds like premeditated murder.

It was unclear whether the teen meant to hit the man, but Sadler said that was irrelevant. The man exchanged words with the teen and then left. He returned with a handgun soon afterward and shot the boy.

He left (went home?), got a gun, came back and shot the kid.

[sepulveda]

13. exactly

it's a frigging cold blooded murder.

the evil act was the shooter's

blaming guns is ridiculous and trolling "gun nuts" *note your bigoted terminology* in light of this tragedy is contemptible.