Canadian teenager Jeremy Cook shot dead after using Find My iPhone app to track stolen smartphone

[Nye Bevan]

An 18-year-old man has been fatally shot after trying to retrieve his stolen iPhone from thieves in Ontario, Canada and the police are still hunting for his killers.

Jeremy Cook, from Brampton, Ontario, left his smartphone in a taxi on Saturday 13 June. In the middle of the night, he and a relative used the Find My iPhone app to trace his handset to a property on Highbury Avenue in London, Ontario.

Police said when Cook and his relative got to the address and attempted to retrieve the iPhone, they were confronted by three men in a Mazda Sedan. The men tried to drive away, so Cook grabbed on to the driver's side door and several shots were fired.

Cook died at approximately 5.15am ET (10am BST) on Sunday 14 June and his body was found at the back of a strip mall near Highbury Avenue, a wealthy area in the north of the city. The car and the phone were found abandoned nearby – the vehicle had hit a fence and a telephone pole.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/canada-teenager-jeremy-cook-shot-dead-after-using-find-my-iphone-app-track-stolen-smartphone-1506819

I can see the temptation of using this app to track down a stolen phone, but everyone needs to understand the dangers. Very sad.

[onehandle]

1. Very effective app that cops are well aware of. Call the cops. Don't go looking for it. nt

[Xithras]

2. So let me get this straight....

...he goes to a total strangers house in the middle of the night, gets confronted when three guys drive up to the house in a car and tell him to get lost, and when the people in the car try to leave, he attacks their car by trying to open the drivers door presumably to get in and get at them (which, by the way, is a far more serious crime than not immediately returning a found iPhone). And then he gets shot.

I'm going to presume that this guy wasn't a member of Mensa.

I also have to wonder how the media would be reporting this if their skin colors were reversed. Black man comes to white persons house in the middle of the night. Three white people tell black man to leave. When the three white men try to leave, the black man attacks their car. One of the white men shoots the black man to prevent him from getting into the car. Clearly, according to the media and police, that would be a case of justifiable self defense

[Bonx]

5. Not straight.

"Jeremy Cook lost his phone in a taxi, and traced its whereabouts to a strip mall in the local area, using an unnamed smartphone tracking system. Accompanied by another person, he approached a parked car. There are no details about what happened between next, but as the car started to drive away, Cook grabbed the door handle, and was shot multiple times.

The car was later found by police crashed and abandoned, and Cook's phone was also discovered nearby. Reports say Cook had not been in trouble with the police before, and didn't know the three people in the car, all of whom are still at large."

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/29347416/teen-shot-to-death-after-tracking-down-his-stolen-smartphone

[Xithras]

6. I prefer Canadian sources for Canadian crime reports over a Fox station in Arizona.

When he and a relative went to the address, he was confronted by three men in a car, Steeves told CBC News.

What happened next is still being pieced together, but police say that when Cook tried to retrieve his phone, the vehicle began to drive away, prompting him to grab on to the driver's side door.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/shooting-death-of-jeremy-cook-over-cellphone-an-extreme-case-say-police-1.3115069

Cook left his cellphone in a taxi, but tracked it electronically to an address on Highbury Ave. around 5:15 a.m. Sunday morning. Police say he went to the address with a relative, where he confronted three males in a car. One of the males got out of the car before it started to drive away as Cook clung to the driver’s side door, said police. The vehicle drove away and shots were fired.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/06/16/police-seek-3-suspects-in-cellphone-shooting-death.html

Another source says that there was some kind of verbal altercation between them. All agree that the men in the car were trying to leave when the dead guy went to the car and grabbed the drivers door.

The dead guy was an absolute idiot. He went to someones house in the dark of night, got into some kind of verbal altercation, and then attacked their car WITH THEM IN IT when they tried to leave. When they get caught, their defense attorney is going to love this case.

[Orrex]

8. So... He was asking for it?

Hmm.

[WillowTree]

10. By your definition, I "attack" my car every time as I get into it.

[SidDithers]

3. If he was shot at the address, after going there with a relative...

how did his body end up being found behind a strip mall?

Sid

[randome]

4. Was the address business or residential? Story doesn't say.

But yeah, the part about the body being 'found' is oddly worded.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

[lpbk2713]

7. I'd like to know if he tried to get the police involved at the beginning.

... and when he called he got the "don't bother us with your silly little
problems" routine and then decided he had to take care of this himself.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Jeremy...