This Just Looks Bad
A Chicago Park District lifeguard who killed one teenager and badly injured another at the Douglass Park swimming pool on Thursday also tried to shoot a third teenage boy, but missed, prosecutors said Sunday.
The revelation came during a detention hearing for Charles Leto, the 55-year-old concealed carry holder now charged with multiple felonies, including first-degree murder.
The usual suspects are leaping to conclusions before any evidence has been presented aside from the bail hearing, and that is rarely ever the final word.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
16 Comments:
Just because he’s a CC holder doesn’t make him automatically right. The two criminals screwing with him and trying to take his bike should be held accountable.. but shooting and killing them? Sure, we can think they got what they deserved for playing stupid games.. but you and I all know the law.. can’t do that. Murder was the right charge.
Come on now, everyone with a hot minute of dealing with Chiraqi's know they were gonna rob him.
Why else are they getting close to him in a triangle?
Absolutely no reason for them to be around a guy fixing a bike like that...
People are sick of being robbed...
Where does a life guard conceal a pistol?
I want to know what was inside the bag that the guy dropped on the ground???
Looks like the mutt drew on the lifeguard first eliminate the threat
It looks to me like someone had just had enough of dealing with the public personally. I'm not excusing the behaviour at all, but clearly it wasn't his first run in...
Those “teens” were definitely surrounding him and were seconds away from announcing their intent to rob him.
Looks like the Park District will have to pay out on this
Should have waited about 3 more
Seconds. Would have abeen a good shoot.
Defending yourself from strong armed robbers is now murder? Not even mistake of fact manslaughter? Three criminals approach an elderly man and we presume threaten him. Before he used his gun should he have allowed them to beat him, maybe smash his head on the sidewalk? Look at the video! Do you think they approached him from different directions because wanted lend him a wrench? These were robbers who deserved what they got. A guy can’t even stop to put the chain back on the back on the sprocket without being victimized by these roaming gangs of thugs always on the lookout for a weak victim. Hope someone starts a Go Fund Me for this poor guy.
2 years at outdoor pool, 6 years at the beach, did all the special events downtown and was sent to outdoor pools when there were troublemakers causing problems, all this lifeguarding was decades ago but this guy leaves me with a big WTF. Google search shows Linked in page as a trader and he apparently used to be at Gill Park. If he was a year round guy Gill park would be a winter gig and he would probably be at a beach in the summer. If seasonal and went from Gill to Douglass someone really didn't like him. He lives in Lakeview, long bike ride to Douglass Park. Even if he was just a scrub and not connected sending a 55yo white guy to Douglass Park was a way to get rid of a problem somewhere else. Guy was an outcast.
The year before I started guarding at a South side beach the guards were wearing pith hats as the natives were throwing rocks at them. I fear for all the guards citywide now as I believe bullets have largely replaced rocks
They'll make him the next Bernhard Goetz.
One of the victims was a cousin of, ready, Laquan McDonald. These yutes were attempting to rob the lifeguard of his bicycle. They had been threatening that they were going to kill him all day. They approached and stated that they would kill him if he didn’t give the bike up. As one of the yutes began pulling on the bike as the others began to strike him he fired multiple rounds eliminating the threat. Give him a medal.
The use to hang horse thieves. Modern day horse thieves get shot. OK by me.
A fifty five year old lifeguard?
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