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Thread ID: 18168 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-05-09
2005-05-09 18:55 | User Profile
[url]http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/4465285/detail.html[/url]
[QUOTE]KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 14-year-old boy died after he was shot in the back over a borrowed lawn mower at 33rd Street and South Benton Sunday afternoon.
Witnesses said Cortez D. White borrowed the mower to cut his mother's grass and was trying to return it. He dropped it off across the street and walked on. [B]But three men caught up to White, beat him, made him lie down. Witnesses told police that is when one of the men fired a shotgun point blank into his back.[/B] The suspects then fled the area.
"Someone at the house wasn't happy with the lawn mower being loaned out and that's what got the whole thing started," Capt. Rich Lockhart said.
The 14-year-old's cousin was also wounded. White died Sunday night.
Information on the crime can be called into the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS[/QUOTE]