'I made it to see 17,' St. Louis teen posted on his birthday. An hour later, he was dead.
Armond Latimore posted on his Facebook page Saturday about how glad he was that he made it to see his 17th birthday; just over an hour later he would be dead from a gunshot wound to his head.
Latimore, of St. Louis, was shot about 1 p.m. Saturday — his birthday — in the 3100 block of North Grand Boulevard, police said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Homicide detectives are investigating.
His mother, Chandra D. Payne, 38, said she had left her home and went to a nearby store to buy ice cream to go with a cake to celebrate her son’s birthday. She said he didn’t want anything elaborate.
“He told me that he wanted ice cream,” she said. “I went to Save A Lot and three minutes later I received the call.”
She was told he had been shot outside a chop suey restaurant called Bing Lau, where he had gone to pick up food. The scene is a few blocks south of Fairground Park in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.
Damn. His mother was out buying him ice cream to go with his cake when she received the call. Reading that part really fucked with me.
That is so fucked up on so many levels. Poor kid. Gosh damn I hate gangs.