Jonathan Dos Santos did so well in school his teachers took him to lunch at the Pru; hours later, he was shot dead

Must be nice to be a rich suburbanite. Go fuck off and die.

You might want to read the whole story before commenting.

If you simply stop reacting to this person he will eventually become irrelevant and disappear. If you keep paying him attention he will continue be an attention whore. In short if you don't feed the attention whores they will be forced to do their whoring on another site.

Dos Santos’s basketball coach, Paris Cherry, has said the teenager confided in him two months ago that he was being pressured to join a gang, but did not want any part of it.

I don't think this is duplicitous adolescent gang member behavior, but it sounds like the kind of thing an innocent person can get targeted for. Sounds like Dos Santos was a good kid who got sucked in to urban violence despite trying his best to avoid it. And regardless of the details, it's unfathomably assholish and privileged to think a 16-year-old deserves to die at all, let alone for having gang members in his social circles. When I was in high school I sometimes helped gang members with homework. I knew they were gang members; they just also happened to be my classmates and I was a good student. That doesn't mean that I would deserve to get shot if for some reason a confrontation were to occur.

No, I didn't know Dos Santos (though I live down the street from where he was killed). But neither did you, and there's a lot of actual tangible extant evidence that he was a good kid. Unfortunately the only evidence that he deserved to die comes from I-didn't-explicitly-mention-race-style racism, which means you're likely a giant asshole.

The evening after, the corner of Fuller and Washington was full of probably hundreds of people. I didn't take a picture because that's incredibly rude, but yes, people were demanding justice, you're just an ignorant jerk.