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Sixteen and at a mall with a gun. He pulls that gun to steal freaking shoes. What's with the title of the article? Clash? Robbery. What is this talk that black parents claim they have to have with their sons? Doesn't it include, don't pull a gun to try to steal a pair of freaking shoes? Black lives matter? To who? Certainly not the thugs running around with a gun to rob someone of shoes. Black lives matter? To who? The black man in line a couple of years ago, to buy, I think, LaBron shoes, and shot and killed a man they claim was picking pockets? HE didn't even get out of line after he KILLED a man. Shoes mattered more to him than a man's life.  He didn't go to jail either. Good thing he wasn't a white cop.

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CINCINNATI  - Police were studying mall surveillance video in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Ohio boy who authorities say tried to steal a shopper's limited-edition Nike Air-Jordan athletic shoes.

Miami Township police said a man with a concealed weapon permit fired his gun after he and another man were accosted Saturday morning by three teens on a sidewalk outside the Dayton Mall. Police said one teen had showed a gun.

After the confrontation, Jawaad Jabbar of Middletown died of a gunshot wound to his torso, authorities said.

Police said the two groups - the three teens and the two men - didn't know each other, but had all had gone to the mall south of Dayton for Air Jordan sales offered by multiple stores.

Police Chief Ronald Hess said Tuesday the stores had set up systems to avoid long, tense lines that have led to problems elsewhere when the popular brand has released new versions, and the three Middletown teens apparently missed out.

Police said the trio was outside on a sidewalk when the two men left the mall carrying newly bought shoes.

"They did have the boxes from the stores that were having the limited-edition sales," Hess told The Associated Press. Police said Jabbar displayed a gun and demanded their merchandise, then the man with the concealed weapon permit pulled out his gun and shot him. No one else was injured.

The other two teens remained held in juvenile detention while the investigation continues. Police haven't released the identity of the man who fired the shot, and are still investigating his actions.

"We'll review the whole case with the county prosecutor, and if they determine he violated some law, then yes (he could be charged)," Hess said. There was no estimate on how long the investigation would take, he said.

Jabbar's father, Wallace Jabbar, told The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News in a brief telephone call Monday evening that he was "obviously devastated" and has been out of town working. The newspaper said Jabbar's mother declined to comment.

Jawaad Jabbar was a student and athlete at Middletown High School, which is on holiday break.

The Nike shoes named for retired basketball superstar Michael Jordan are prized by both athletes and collectors, and entrepreneurs often sell shoes bought for around $200 at double that or more online.

Police in New Jersey and Louisiana reported armed robberies in recent months involving Air Jordans, and a Springfield, Massachusetts, man was sentenced to up to four years in prison for a shooting that wounded an 11-year-old girl waiting in line at an Air Jordan sale in 2013.

 

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A teenager was shot dead by another shopper after he tried to rob him of his limited edition Nike Air sneakers at gunpoint.

Jawaad Jabbar, 16, of Middletown, Ohio, had traveled to Dayton Mall in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday to buy a pair of the popular athletic shoes.

But the shop sold out of them and the teenager became desperate to get hold of a pair. Police said the teen along with two friends spotted two men outside  — one of whom had just bought a pair of the sneakers — and pulled a gun.

However, the shopper was also carrying a gun - and had a permit for it - and shot Jabbar, who died a short time later of a gunshot wound to his torso, authorities said.

Miami Township police are now studying mall surveillance video in their investigation of the fatal shooting.

Police Chief Ronald Hess said an initial investigation showed that the teens were outside on a sidewalk when the two men left the mall carrying newly bought shoes. 

Jabbar displayed a gun and demanded their merchandise, then the man with the concealed weapon permit pulled out his gun and shot him. No one else was injured. 

According to police, the two groups didn't know each other, but had all had gone to the mall south of Dayton, Ohio, for Nike Air Jordan sales offered by multiple stores.

The stores had set up systems to avoid long, tense lines that have led to problems elsewhere when the popular brand has released new versions but the Middletown teens missed out.

 

Police haven't released the identity of the man who fired the shot, and are still investigating his actions.

 

'We'll review the whole case with the county prosecutor, and if they determine he violated some law, then yes (he could be charged),' Hess said.  

 

abbar was a student and athlete at Middletown High School, which is on holiday break. He was desperate to buy the Nike shoes named after retired basketball superstar Michael Jordan. 

The sneakers are so popular that they're often re-sold online for twice the purchase price by both athletes and collectors.

 

Yet they have sparked a spate of robberies in New Jersey and Louisiana according to local police.

 

In 2013, a Springfield, Massachusetts, man was sentenced to up to four years in prison for a shooting that wounded an 11-year-old girl waiting in line at an Air Jordan sale. 

 

A spokesman for Nike's Jordan Brand said in a statement Tuesday that it encourages people seeking its products to do so in a 'safe and respectful' way. 


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Crusty, I honestly don't get it. He was sixteen years old. Sixteen and bold enough to pull a gun to get a pair of shoes. He never gave one thought to the man he was trying to rob, and if it never crossed his mind that he could be killed, which I'm sure it didn't, he should have thought there was a chance he would be caught for doing it and face armed robbery charges. These aren't the actions of young men that are afraid of anything. That's why I question those 'talks'. These are not the actions of young men that have been given any talk or guidance, and certainly not the talk they should have been given.

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