One other younger Black life was misplaced when a retailer proprietor in South Carolina shot and killed a teen after falsely accusing {the teenager} of shoplifting.
Based on NBC Information, South Carolina comfort retailer proprietor Rick Chow was arrested after he chased and killed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton after accusing him of stealing from his retailer.
Legislation enforcement acknowledged there was no proof that Carmack-Belton did something flawed and didn’t steal something from the comfort retailer.
“He didn’t shoplift something,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott knowledgeable reporters throughout a press convention. “Now we have no proof that he stole something by any means,” Lott continued.
The killing occurred in Columbia, South Carolina, at Chow’s comfort retailer on Parklane Street round 8 p.m. A dispute ensued between {the teenager}, Chow, and his son. Lott stated Carmack-Belton ultimately left the shop and began working away. Chow’s son went after the boy as he sprinted towards a close-by condo complicated whereas making an attempt to get away. He stumbled however received again up because the pair continued to pursue him.
Chow’s son stated Carmack-Belton had a gun when the proprietor shot him within the again whereas he was working from the shop. Lott additionally stated a gun was found subsequent to {the teenager}’s physique.
He was transported to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless. Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford stated the gunshot wound precipitated hemorrhaging and vital harm to the 14-year-old’s coronary heart.
Though Carmack-Belton was Black and the Chows are Asian, police have acknowledged it was “not a bias-motivated incident.”
The sheriff admonished Chow for his motion.
“It’s mindless,” Lott stated. “It doesn’t make sense. You have got a household that’s grieving. Now we have a group that’s grieving over a 14-year-old who was shot.”
“Regardless, even when he had shoplifted 4 bottles of water, which is what he initially took out the cooler after which he put them again, even when he had carried out that, that’s not — that’s not one thing you shoot anyone over, a lot much less a 14-year-old,” Lott stated.
A number of neighborhood residents protested outdoors the shop, and the shop was ransacked as individuals took issues off the cabinets. The shop proprietor is at the moment in police custody on the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Middle, the sheriff’s workplace reported.
