4 teens charged with killing homeless man who had just $1 when robbed

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4 teens charged with killing homeless man who had just $1 when robbed

By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/19/11286210-4-teens-charged-with-killing-homeless-man-who-had-just-1-when-robbed?lite

Four Houston teens have been charged with killing a homeless man who had just $1 on him when he resisted being robbed.

The youngest of the accused, a 16-year-old girl, told police they had found $2 on Pedro Miguel Rosales Ramos, 32, but police later determined that she had seen a single dollar bill torn in half, the Houston Chronicle reported.

"They killed a man for a one dollar bill torn in half," said Houston Police Sgt. Brian Harris.

Police said one of the teens, Carlos Fernandez, 18, confessed to the killing and that the four had initially talked about robbing prostitutes but changed their minds when they came across Rosales Ramos on April 4.

[MrSlayer]

1. Well they'll be joining him soon.

Texas doesn't fuck around when it comes to this sort of thing.

[Brigid]

7. If they do get the death penalty,

I doubt they'll be going to the same place.

[gratuitous]

2. The U.S. has been at war for, what, 10 solid years?

Might makes right. And if someone, even a homeless someone, has a dollar that you want, you have to be prepared to do whatever it takes to make that dollar yours. This is the lesson our society has been carefully teaching for at least the last 10 years through its official actions, public airwave commentaries, heck even through popular entertainments right down the level of children's games.

I hope nobody has the chutzpah to pretend to be shocked by this murder.

[RZM]

4. Oh come on

As if things were all that different more than 10 years ago. Violent crime spiked way back in the early 1990s. It's actually much lower now.

[Zalatix]

8. Nope, not at all. It's called social Darwinism.

[malaise]

9. That simple

He's lucky they didn't use a drone

[OhioChick]

3. Terrible

Worse yet, no signs of remorse.

[Earth_First]

5. There is no way that $ was a motivator in this case...

That's why they robbed and beat a homeless guy, right?

I mean, homeless folks are known to be flush with cash!

There is something more sinister and emotionally/mentally missing among these youth.

Unfortunately, this is Texas this happened in so, not only will they not recieve any sort of rehabilitation or mental health services, they will likely face the same untimely death in the way of the death penalty.

What a sad, unfortunate situation all around...

Rest in Peace, Pedro.

[Brigid]

6. Killing a homeless man over a dollar.

You don't get much lower than that.