Cops Eye Suspect In "Good Kids" Shooting

Robbery Likely Motive For Execution-Style Slaying Of 3 N.J. College Students

(CBS/AP)  Police are close to making an arrest in the execution-style slayings of three college students, a spokeswoman for Mayor Cory A. Booker said.

The spokeswoman, Lupe Todd, would not say exactly when an announcement might come or how the possible break in the case was made.

It was not clear whether additional suspects might emerge.

In a city accustomed to violence, Saturday's killings touched a nerve.

Four friends, ages 18 to 20, were hanging out in a schoolyard Saturday around 11:30 p.m.

One, 19-year-old Natasha Aeriel survived a wound to her head.

The other three — Aeriel's brother, Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20; and Iofemi Hightower, 20 — were forced to kneel against a wall and were shot fatally at close range.

Authorities have said that robbery appeared to be the motive.

All four victims were planning to attend Delaware State University this fall.

The New York Times reported Natasha Aeriel, who remains hospitalized, was able to help authorities by giving her account of the shootings.

Officials have said that cameras trained on the schoolyard were not much help in the investigation; two of the three were not working.

There is a reward of more than $50,000 in the case.

Authorities have also gone to "America's Most Wanted," among other tactics to try to get witnesses to help.

"I don't believe there were a lot of witnesses, but people who do these things tend to talk," Essex County prosecutor Paula Dow said. "I don't believe they kept silent, and we're hoping anyone with any information, however tangential, will come forward."

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by kailumego1 at 08:23 PM : Aug 09, 2007


I was not trying to excuse anyones actions, my whole point was an attempt at constructive guidance in less abrasive commentary but better communication. If I seemed less than cordial, My apologies.

[kailumego1]

ToolMangler I mentioned white folks in response to the white posters commenting on this post and past post, most, not all, are quick to view blacks as monolithic[one-dimensional thinking] as oppose to viewing each situation separately.

Now does that mean all blacks, Hispanics, Arabs, etc. view situations involving others and themselves uniquely, no, there are blacks, Hispanics, Arabs, etc. that are guilty of one-dimensional thinking on all scales and view members of other ethnicities as a monolith..

As I stated from the beginning, if you re-read the majority of white posters you will find comments that are consistant with monolithic characterizations.

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by Farmerbb at 06:57 AM : Aug 09, 2007


Here is the source of my "funny" numbers.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

[toolmangler-2009]

The problem with most white folks their perception becomes too one-dimensional and jaded in observation of others, especially people of color, on purpose, or an unconscious defense mechanism to %u201Cscapegoat%u201D.


Posted by kailumego1 at 10:23 PM : Aug 08, 2007


I agree with all that you say except for three words. One word is "white' the other two are of color. Now lets try it this way

"The problem with most folks is their perception becomes too one-dimensional and jaded in observation of others, especially people with differences, on purpose, or an unconscious defense mechanism to %u201Cscapegoat%u201D."

I can agree with that statement 100% and its non inflamatory. Comment?

[gheemaster38]

Canada, Spain, USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, etc.....they don't care what we think on who has the most violence, it's us who should care and make the difference
Posted by patsy2007 at 04:37 PM : Aug 08, 20

Well said... While AMERICANS are bickering here over black white issues. The rest of the World is seeing just how foolish Americans truly are. 3 lives are over-and what are we bickering over? "Oh, it is black people killing-Oh it is white people too.. Even politics and religion.. Some even started using racial slurs as well. And the rest of the World that reads this looks on an awe at our attitude.. I dont care about the statistics of murder in other countries folks. Or the population ratios to murder.. What I do care about is that the murders get solved criminals get tried and punished rather through caning/jail/death in whatever country it happens. I have found most Statistics to be wrong anyway. Most like at Precentiles instead of precentages.. Murder is Murder rather white, black, hispanic, asian, Canadian, French, Arab, Jewish or whomever commits it... that should be the focus.....

[farmerbb]

Not sure where ToolMangler got his/her numbers, but they seemed a bit funny, so I went to the following sites, and got a homicide death rate for the U.S. of 5.9, and for Canada 1.7, both rates being for 2004, the latest data I could find. You can use your own research/opinions to come up with a reason the rates are so different. Gun control comes to mind, of course.

http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/health30a.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/finaldeaths04/finaldeaths04_tables.pdf#2

[toolmangler-2009]

Sorry Ice, I hit publish to soon and didn't get to my comments and now "oldtimers" has robbed me of that)

[toolmangler-2009]

Japan
Death rate:
8.98 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est

[kailumego1]

Keithle1, it is racist to lump all "black neighborhoods", into a monolithic category equating it with breeding criminals%u2026.

Obviously you and some of your other buddies haven%u2019t visited all %u201Cblack neighborhoods%u201D, because a lot of middle-working-class blacks live in very posh well manicured and peaceful neighborhoods, it%u2019s when some blacks living unconventionally and possessing apathetic behaviors that %u201Ccreep%u201D into middle-working-class black neighborhoods reeking havoc and mayhem that%u2019s the problem%u2026

The problem with most white folks their perception becomes too one-dimensional and jaded in observation of others, especially people of color, on purpose, or an unconscious defense mechanism to %u201Cscapegoat%u201D.

[iceman_1960]

"Clean your own %u201Chouse%u201D first, before you dare speak/castigate about innate criminal behavior in others%u2026."
- Posted by kailumego1 at 10:15 PM : Aug 08, 2007

I don't even own a Chouse.


(just kidding)

[kailumego1]

Not all %u201Cblack neighborhoods%u201D foster this type of misanthropic apathetic behavior, that%u2019s what makes the statement racist.

I live in a predominately black neighborhood, where most of my neighbors are homeowners, of which they take extremely good care of their property, it%u2019s the %u201Coutsiders%u201D, those blacks possessing this apathetic criminalistic behavior %u201Ccreeping%u201D into our neighborhood that are causing the problems.


I don%u2019t know if it is an unconscious need for some whites/blacks/Arabs/etc. to berate others, in order to circumvent their own belligerence and or inadequacies or it%u2019s some innate psychological flaw, because not all members of distinct ethnicities [African, Black, White, Asian, Arab, etc] depreciate themselves through character assassinations.


To make broad surreptitious statements that %u201Call black neighborhoods%u201D are flotsams of criminally negligent behavior and blacks themselves have an inherit propensity to violence, is an oversimplification, misrepresentation, and gross-exaggeration, particularly when Western/Eastern/Southern Europeans are the only ethnic %u201Ctribes%u201D that had/have conquered, annexed, and colonized territories beyond their own geographical %u201Cboundaries%u201D.

[iceman_1960]

Japan has 337 people per KM and one of the lowest gun death rates in the world -- perhaps the lowest.

[kailumego1]

Moreover, Europeans are the only ethnic %u201Ctribes%u201D that has far-reached its authority through hegemony and imperialism onto other countries European [Poland, Russia, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Armenia, Afghanistan, Latvia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, etc, etc.] and non-European thousands of miles beyond its borders [North/South America, Caribbean, India, Africa, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Australia, Oceania, New Zealand, Philippines, etc.etc.], where the destruction of human lives, as a result of wars and colonialism reached in the upper millions.

Discovery has a mini series on the CIA involvement in countries like Africa, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Guatemala [Bay of Pigs fiasco], Nicaragua, Cuba, South America, the Philippines, Egypt, Suez Canal, etc. etc., in which former CIA operatives disclose all the %u201Cdirty-little%u201D secrets.

One CIA operative, forgot his name, spoke boldly of his savagery against the Vietnamese, Laos, and Cambodians, as a matter of fact he candidly boasted of his %u201Ctrophies%u201D, a necklace made of %u201Chuman ears%u201D and went as far as to send a souvenir [necklace made of %u201Chuman ears%u201D] to one of his comrades.

Clean your own %u201Chouse%u201D first, before you dare speak/castigate about innate criminal behavior in others%u2026.

[toolmangler-2009]

Erasmus6, You like statistics, Check these, then look at people per Sq km. Do the math, maybe I was wrong?

Area: USA
total: 9,826,630 sq km
land: 9,161,923 sq km
water: 664,707 sq km
note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia
Population:
301,139,947 (July 2007 est.)
Death rate:
8.26 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78 years
male: 75.15 years
female: 80.97 years (2007 est.)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)
32 People per SQ/Km


Area: Canada
total: 9,984,670 sq km
land: 9,093,507 sq km
water: 891,163 sq km
Population:
33,390,141 (July 2007 est.)
Death rate:
7.86 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 80.34 years
male: 76.98 years
female: 83.86 years (2007 est.)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)
0.2 People per SQ/Km

[nellowstone]

Drug laws people, drug laws! The contempt for law enforcement that breeds the "don't be a snitch" mentality is based in the racially biased anti-drug regime. The drug laws breed gangster culture that requires its employees to own and gratuitously use guns. If the police were out looking for murderers, intstead of running around tying to figure out who's getting high, people would be more inclined to cooperate with them.

[keithle1]

If you're not involved in the drug trade, you're chances of being shot/killed are slim.

Family members shoot family members all the time.

What is the murder rate in other countries that don't have anywhere near the guns that we do?
Last I heard you can't buy guns in a store in Japan, UK or Germany.

Is it racist to make the general statement that if you're in a black neighborhood you have more of a chance of being the victim of crime?

[azmka]

Well said craymo2!

[iceman_1960]

"Washington D.C. has some of the strongest gun controls in the nation...it is also one of the murder capitals of the nation. Gun control DOES not work...it is being proven every where."
- Posted by theUSA1st at 01:38 PM : Aug 08, 2007

I've seen this strange logic before. It gets cause and effect totally jacked up.

It's the same logic as, "People with cancer are the ones who most often receive chemotherapy... They are also the ones who most often die of cancer... Chemotherapy DOES not work..."

It is the high crime rate in Washington DC, and the low one in the state of Vermont, that accounts for the stricter gun control laws in Washington DC.

The rate in Washington DC would be even worse if
it had the gun laws that Vermont has.

But I fear this little exercise in elementary reasoning has been wasted on the NRA crowd...

[erasmus6]

I also read that for young black males, guns are the leading cause of all deaths.

"In 1995, l in 12 students in a national survey reported carrying a firearm for fighting or self-defense at least once in the previous 30 days." (source: National Center of Injury Prevention and Control)

"Nearly 29% of those who died from firearm injuries in 1994 were 15 to 24 years old." (NC.IPC.)

"18-20 year olds commit over 23% of all gun murders." (United States Treasure and Justice Dept. Report 1999)

"Kids-10 to 24 years old- firearms are 2nd leading cause of death."

"US children are 12 times more likely to die by gunfire than children in 25 industrialized countries combined (source John Hopkins Center for gun policy and Research)

[erasmus6]

theUSA1st

"...more things happen than what you read about. Your larger cities are a haven for terrorist cells because of your lax immigration policies..."

First off, my cousin is a cop so I hear more of what is going on than most. I am not talking about your everyday crime, I am talking about MAJOR incidents and when they happen, let me assure you that we do hear about them. Again, I didn't say we didn't have any crime. And I can assure you that spending a few weekends in Canada does not make you an authority on our crime and what goes on here. Your comment about the terrorist cells because of the lax immigration policies, I think you are thinking of your country. You are the ones with major terrorists cells because of your VERY lax immigration policies. Is there terrorist cells here? I have not doubt there probably is, but not to the extent you are talking about.

"I can also guarantee you that the quality of hospital care I can get where I live is much better than anywhere in Canada."

You would be wrong. I just got through reading an article on this website not long ago about the state of your hospitals and just how many of them were any good.I also read how patients have died waiting for care and how disgustingly dirty they were. I also read that if a person was homeless they took them and put them in a taxi and dropped them off on skid row. Yup, you have great hospitals alright!