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Houston police charge man, 20, with murder in Walmart shooting death of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes
2019-01-06
[Daily Mail UK] Admit 'investigation has taken new direction', as multiple sources say shooter is black, not white
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Houston police have charged a man, 20, in connection with the murder of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes who was killed in a Texas Walmart parking lot.

Investigators have filed a capital murder charge against Eric Black Jr after the child was gunned down in the back seat of her family's car with her three siblings and mom.

Fox 26 reports the alleged shooter is black, not white, and also that the shooting may have been gang-related.

A second suspect has been named in local reports as 24-year-old Larry Woodruffe, and has been arrested, according to ABC 13.

Police tweeted: 'The Jazmine Barnes Homicide investigation has taken a new direction. Detectives are in the process of interviewing persons of interest. More details will be released as soon as possible.'

The driver of a red pickup truck pulled alongside the vehicle and fired inside, killing her on Sunday December 30.

Police had earlier described the suspect as a bearded white male in his 40s. But they added that they had not yet determined a motive, including whether race might have played a role.

It comes as hundreds of people gathered at a rally on Saturday holding signs reading 'Justice for Jazmine.'

Organizers of the rally also led the crowd in chants that repeated the phrases, 'What do we want? Justice. Who do we want it for? Jazmine.'

Jazmine's family had said they believe her death was racially motivated.

Time to bury this story, it's become "inconvenient to the narrative"
Posted by:Frank G

#6  Ya know, this is just another example of an innocent black man being arrested when a white man committed the crime - Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et al.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-01-06 18:17  

#5  ...I saw that on CBS This Morning Friday AM - the family lawyer making it clear that this was racially motivated, there was no doubt about that. And some FB friends later that day making it clear that this was life in Trump's America.

And may God forgive me, but I've been pretty sure from the start that the little girl's killer would be pretty much who it turns out to be.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-01-06 17:16  

#4  Common thread between shooting gallery Chicago and this? Democrat dominated urban and black and poor. The home of the Congresswoman For Life idiot Sheila Jackson Lee who once said the Constitution was 400 years old and when called on it accused the questioner of racism.c

Press is going to hurt this, and all the race baiting "community organizers" will have to find another place to leech money and attention
Posted by: Neville Glolutch8436   2019-01-06 12:49  

#3  This story is no longer useful to those fomenting hate against whites and will therefore be banished to room 101.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-06 12:04  

#2  the shooting may have been gang-related.


Probably should be the lead on 99% of street crime....Hello Chicago, Houston, etc.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-01-06 11:40  

#1  Now local media is reporting that the white man in the red pickup was trying to put as much distance as possible between he and the shooter.

This story will disappear from national and international media in three--two--
Posted by: BrujoTejano   2019-01-06 10:57  

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