Armond Latimore: Teenager Shot Dead on Birthday an Hour After Posting on Facebook He Was Glad to Have Made It to 17
20th August 2018
A teenager posted online that he was glad to make it to his 17th birthday after all he had been through. Little more than an hour later, he was shot dead.
Armond Latimore was killed in broad daylight while standing outside a restaurant in St Louis, Missouri, on Saturday.
Just another instance of the senseless violence against People of Color in Amerika? Well, not exactly.
Previous postings showed the high school student holding wedges of $100 bills. In one he appeared to have a hand gun in the waistband of his trousers. In another he sent a message of support to Richard Antwon Donaldson, another St Louis teenager who has been charged with the murder of a 72-year-old man during an attempted car-jacking. “Keep yo head up,” he told Donaldson.
So the fact that he made it to 17 was in spite of, rather than because of, the life he apparently led.