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Jos Buttler welcomes knockout pressure while England ponder plan for Kohli – The Guardian

Jos Buttler: I want to be someone who wins games of cricket for England, thats my main driving force. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images

The Barabati stadium in Cuttack is a pleasantly rambling cricket ground, with a lovely green oval pegged out in a clearing at the centre of its jumble of stickle-brick stands. For Englands cricketers the second oneday international on Thursday on a ground in east India none of the squad have previously played at represents a chance to level the series and keep alive the hope of a first bilateral series win in India for 33 years.

Or, failing that, to concede the series in just four days and find their thoughts turning already to the Caribbean in spring and the promise of a home tournament summer. It is a jumping-off point Jos Buttler, speaking in his own disarmingly soft tones in the frenzied air of the Barabatis press conference room the voice of a very gentle and considerate professional contract killer seems likely to relish.

Its a really enjoyable challenge and its brilliant for us that straightaway its a knockout match, looking ahead to the tournament coming up in the summer. Its fantastic to be under that pressure, Buttler said.

Which is certainly one way of looking at the disappointment of Pune, where England were hauled in by one of the great fifthwicket partnerships, and one of the great players in the irrepressible Virat Kohli. Planet Kohli was the headline in one of the Indian newspapers, Kohlis imperious visage pictured peering down magisterially between a blizzard of jawdropping stats.

England trained under the yellowy floodlights with the usual sense of purpose on Wednesday night. It is a huge challenge for this team of adrenal batsmen and a slightly work-in-progress attack to reassert itself from one down in the series. Not least when they will face a home team whose chief superstar looks, right now, like a man having an almost indecent amount of fun while also producing some astonishingly sustained white-ball batting for the ages.

Talk in the buildup that England might try to bounce Kohli got short shrift from KLRahul during a break in training (Good luck, was the instant reply). But given their record of two wins in their past 19 ODIs in India, not to mention the home teams fortress-like record in Cuttack, England will have to do something different to keep this series going to Kolkata. But then this is in so many ways a different England team.

The last time they played here in November 2008 the captain, Kevin Pietersen, scored a relatively restrained hundred two months before he was sacked (for the first time) for undermining the hierarchy (for the first time). Alastair Cook opened the batting. A distinctly Old England score of 270 for four was hunted down with six overs to spare by the gunslinger Virender Sehwag and the immovable eminence Sachin Tendulkar.

Eight years on England have finally stopped being England, or at least being that England. In Buttler, arguably Englands best ever ODI batsman, they have a player India will be genuinely wary of even with the whip hand in the series.

I want to be someone who wins games of cricket for England, thats my main driving force, Buttler said. Its a real motivation to stand up and take responsibility. I want to do it more and more.

He already does it a fair bit. When Buttler makes runs they are generally decisive. England have won 70% of ODIs where their most murderous floating lower-middle-order finisher has scored 60 or more. Buttler has such a cold, wonderfully pure kind of violence in those fast-twitch hands he can change a game in a matter of overs.

It is a quality of inventive acceleration Eoin Morgan first brought to this team and Buttler was quick to offer some solid support for his captain, who was also the future once, and who really could do with a decent score after two fifties in his past 17 innings, but who does still have a mighty record in this form of the game.

Asked what his captain brings Buttler referred to Morgans vision for the game. He said: Hes a fantastic leader in that sense. He really champions people playing in the way they believe and he shows that in the way he plays too and has done for many years. He was one of the first revolutionary players for England and that carries a lot of weight in the group.

For now England will be happy to bat first again on a friendly pitch given their strength in piling on intimidating scores. The likely presence of some dew may come into the picture in another day-night game. Buttler is adamant England will continue to play with freedom, albeit with the intention this time to make genuinely match-seizing individual scores.

Last time out Englands bowlers restricted India to 356 for seven off 48.1 overs on a good pitch with a freakish 65-ball hundred chucked in; a pretty decent effort. Defeat was the batsmens fault, if it has to be anyones. All of us in the top six want to stand up and make hundreds, Buttler said. With England set for a defacto knockout game, there could not be a better moment.

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Late Tip NBA Free Pick to Click: Nuggets vs Lakers – WagerTalk Sports News (press release) (blog)

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The Denver Nuggets (-1, 230) square off against the Los Angeles Lakers tonight at the Staples Center with tipoff scheduled for 10:30 p.m. ET. The two teams have combined for just 31 victories on the season and with the Lakers riding a four-game losing streak and dropping 20 of their last 25 since beginning the season with a 10-10 mark. The Nuggets aim to win their seventh straight game against the Lakers in Los Angeles tonight.

Courtesy of Scott Spreitzer

Im laying the short number with the Lakers on Tuesday night. Not the best spot for the Nuggets, off last nights 125-112 home win over Orlando. Denver enters tonights roadie on a 0-5 ATS slide when playing in the second of back-to-back nights. The Lakers are middle-of-the-pack on the offensive end, but get just what the doctor ordered, against a team that plays little defense. Offensively for Denver, we expect SG Gary Harris to sit this one out (listed as doubtful) after injuring his ankle last night. We also note the Nuggets, another middle-of-the-pack shooting team, is likely in for a down-tick after nailing 58% of their FGA in last nights home win. Finally, the Lakers have been installed as a favorite just twice in their last nine games, but won & covered both. We look for more of the same in this one.

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Knockout game – Wikipedia

The "knockout game" is one of the names given in the United States by news media and others to assaults in which one person (with others acting as accomplices or lookouts) attempt to "knock out", with a single sucker punch, an unsuspecting victim. Other names given to assaults of this type include "knockout", "knockout king", "point 'em out, knock 'em out", "bomb",[1][2] and "polar-bearing" or "polar-bear hunting" (allegedly called such when the victim is white).[3][4][5]

Serious injuries and even deaths have been attributed to the "knockout game". Some news sources report that there was an escalation of such attacks in late 2013, and, in some cases, the attacker was charged with a hate crime. Some politicians have been seeking legislation against it.[3][6][7] Other media analysts have cast doubt on the reportedly widespread nature of the game and have labeled the trend, although not the attacks themselves, a myth.[8][9][10][11] Liberal analysts claim that conservatives falsely promote a view that the "knockout game" trend is real, which liberals claim has not been empirically established.[12][13] Conservative analysts claim that the liberal media refuses to report this trend for political reasons, i.e. due to the game's racial implications.[14][15][16]

In September 1992, Norwegian exchange student Yngve Raustein was killed by three teenagers whoaccording to Cambridge, Massachusetts, prosecutorswere playing a game called "knockout." Local teens said that the object is to render an unsuspecting target unconscious with a single punch, and, if the assailant does not succeed, his companions will turn on him instead.[17]

In 2005 in the United Kingdom, BBC News reported on the happy slapping incidents, in which the attacks were filmed for the purpose of posting online.[18] The French government responded to this trend by making it illegal to film any acts of violence and post them online, with a spokesperson for then President Nicolas Sarkozy saying that the law was indeed directed at "happy slapping."[19]

Three teens were arrested in Decatur, Illinois, in September 2009, and charged in the killing of a bicyclist, 61, who was stomped to death, and the attempted murder of another man, 46, who was also attacked and stomped. It was claimed that the teens were playing "point 'em out, knock 'em out," where a person is selected and a group of attackers attempts to render the victim unconscious.[20][21]

In June 2009, a 29-year-old man was beaten in a Columbia, Missouri, parking garage by a group of teens who told police that they were playing a game called "knockout king," where they would find an unsuspecting person and attempt to knock him out with a single punch.[22]

In April 2011, Hoang Nguyen, 72, died in St. Louis, Missouri, after he was attacked in what was described by a local CBS station as "part of the so-called knockout game". Nguyen's wife, Yen, 62, was injured. After the trial, the assailant, Elex Murphy, a teenager who was 18 at the time of the assault, was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years.[22][23][24][25]

In July 2012, 62-year-old Delfino Mora was attacked by three teens and killed in West Rogers Park, Chicago. Anthony Malcolm, who recorded the attack on his cell phone and publicized it, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Two other teens were awaiting trial in September 2013. The attack was said to be part of a game called "pick 'em out, knock 'em out."[21][26]

In 2013, a series of these attacks resulted in the deaths of the victims, all with some sort of game as a precipitating factor. Michael Daniels, 51, of Syracuse, New York died a day after being attacked in May 2013, with the "knockout game" later mentioned in regard to his death.[27][28]

In Greater Manchester, England, Eden Lomax, 17, killed 43-year-old Simon Mitchell in an attack that he referred to as a "bomb". During the investigation, it was discovered that Lomax had performed other non-fatal "bomb" attacks in the days leading up to Mitchell's death.[1][2]

Ralph Santiago, a disabled homeless resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, was found dead after being attacked by three boys whose assault was linked to the "knockout" game.[29][30]

Yale Daily News reported seven attacks during November 2013 in New Haven, Connecticut that could be associated with the knockout game. Yale University's chief of police wrote an email to the campus community pertaining to the issue on November 21.[31]

In the United States, The New York Times noted "a growing log of reports of such crimes in the Northeast and beyond".[10] A number of news stories in late November 2013 covered incidents in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where a series of attacks took place during October and November of that year.[6][7][32][33][34] As a result, the NYPD responded by stepping up patrols in certain neighborhoods.[35]

On November 24, 2013, in Katy, Texas, an 81-year-old African-American man was attacked and hospitalized. Two weeks later, Conrad Alvin Barrett, 29, was arrested after allegedly showing an off-duty police officer a video he recorded with his cell phone of himself perpetrating the attack and explicitly referencing "knockout". Investigators revealed that there were other videos on his phone in which he used racial epithets and another in which he wondered if he would receive media attention if he were to commit a "knockout game" attack on a black man. This was one of the first cases where an African American was "knocked out". The Justice Department subsequently charged Barrett with a hate crime, the only time the DOJ involved itself in prosecuting these attacks. Barrett's attorney claimed his client suffers from bipolar disorder and was not on medication at the time of the attack.[36][37][38][39][40][41] In October 2015, Barrett was sentenced to 71 months (5 years and 11 months) in federal incarceration. He still faces charges in state court.[42]

In November 2013 a teen, attempting to play the "knockout game", gets shot and arrested.[43]

On July 27, 2016 in Milan, Italian police arrested a young Spaniard on holiday in Italy, after he made repeatedly assaults on passersby, similar to this "game".[44] On that same date, in Greenville, South Carolina a man was attacked while playing Pokemon GO.[45]

In December 2015 a man in New York was reported assaulted by a teen playing the "knockout game". The perpetrator turned himself in two months later.[46]

On August 29, 2016 a 30-year-old Guatemalan, Mardoquo Sincal Jochola, was fatally assaulted in Philadelphia and is alleged to have been a victim of the "knockout game".[47]

In the coverage of the attacks in 2013 some political commentators have focused on racial factors, alleging that the crimes are being committed primarily by African-American youth and criticizing the media for ignoring the alleged racial nature of these attacks.[14]Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel described the "knockout" attacks as "another example of young black Americans committing senseless crimes" and expressed disappointment at the lack of media attention on the matter.[15] In response to several reported black-on-white attacks in 2013, Al Sharpton released a piece called Knockout GamesThe Biggest Form of Cowardice,[48] which condemned the attacks. Sharpton noted the black community would not be silent if they were the victims.[49]

Several attacks on Jewish victims in Brooklyn in 2013 have been called antisemitic hate crimes.[3][4][5][50]ABC Nightline reported that New York City police believed that antisemitism was likely to be a motive in the attacks, as all eight victims were identified as Jewish.[51]

Jewish community leaders in Brooklyn have spoken out on the subject,[33][52] and the Anti-Defamation League regional office issued a public statement on knockout attacks "targeting Jewish individuals in Brooklyn".[53] Amrit Marajh, a 28-year-old suspect in an attack that took place in Brooklyn, was charged with a hate crime as his victim was Jewish.[3][7][54] Marajh has claimed innocence and denied the claims of antisemitism.[55]

On December 3, newly elected African-American Democratic New York City councilwoman Laurie Cumbo added a letter to her Facebook page saying: "The accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a sense that Jewish success is not also their success." The Anti-Defamation League said her post was "troubling" and that it evoked "classic anti-Semitic stereotypes."[56] Cumbo later issued an apology for the remarks.[57][58] Cumbo added that the lives of victims and suspects will never be the same and that attackers would be "prosecuted to the full extent of the law".[59] NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly later stated that he was avoiding referring to the attacks as part of any sort of trend to avoid further copycat attacks and has instead been labeling them as hate crimes.[60]

On November 21, 2013[61]Republican New York State assemblyman Jim Tedisco put forward legislation called the "Knockout Assault Deterrent Act"[62] to charge juvenile offenders in these type of attacks as adults, and would also punish those who were found recording the attacks.[61][63]New York State Senator Hugh Farley (also a Republican) supports legislation that would make assailants linked to the knockout game liable to harsher sentences, would try juvenile offenders as adults, and would make accomplices criminally responsible.[63][64] Democratic assemblyman John McDonald, while admitting stiffer penalties were warranted claimed Tedisco's bill was unnecessary.[64]

In Wisconsin, Republican State Assemblyman Dean Kaufert said he was considering drafting a bill to deter attacks.[65]

After incidents during late 2013 in Brooklyn in which Jews were victims of knockout attacks, Jewish leaders, councilmembers, and organization representatives spoke against the attacks.[33][59][66]

Leaders from the African-American community also made statements. New York City councilman Charles Barron stated that the root of the problem was a need for jobs to keep young people out of trouble; he also suggested additional funding for community patrols to act as lookouts.[67] Representative Hakeem Jeffries said at a Crown Heights Youth Collective conference that attacks based on race will not be tolerated and that the collective will do everything in its power to see that justice is done.[59] Brooklyn's then-District Attorney-elect Kenneth P. Thompson called out the attacks, saying that "there is no status to be gained" for knocking out an unsuspecting victim and that such violence will not be tolerated. Brooklyn Borough President-elect Eric Adams affirmed Thompson's statement, saying that, if you "play this game, . . . you will lose".[59]

Other notable New York City community members who have spoken against the attacks include Reverend Al Sharpton[49] and Dov Hikind.[68]Al Sharpton, Russell Simmons, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding founder Rabbi Marc Schneier, former NYC mayor David Dinkins and former New Orleans mayor and current National Urban League president Marc Morial released a video in December 2013 saying "No to K.O."[69] Retired Brooklyn-born boxer Mike Tyson has also spoken against the attacks on The Piers Morgan Show.[70]

The existence of a growing trend of knockout attacks has been questioned; claims about the prevalence of the phenomenon have been called an "urban myth" and a "type of panic" by some political analysts.[10]

A June 2011 investigative report by John Tucker of the Riverfront Times following the death of Hoang Nguyen in 2011 saw many related attacks, all attributed to the "Knockout King" game. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Daniel Isom stated that a year prior the police determined that the knockout game was played by a group of children who went around trying to knock random people unconscious. The police estimated the activity was not widespread and limited to five or nine teens.

In Tucker's interviews with local teens, they believed the number to be much higher; one 18-year-old estimated 10-15% of his peers played the game. A St. Louis area barber said that in his youth the phenomenon was not called "Knockout King" but "One Hitter Quitter". Mike Males of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice claimed that the media has been cherry-picking related attacks for sensationalism, asserting that "This knockout-game legend is a fake trend." Police at the time believed such attacks might have been under-reported by immigrant victims in communities where relations with law enforcement had been tense.[71]

An attack from 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was tentatively linked to more recent attacks, although it was never identified as part of any "game".[63] Police in Syracuse, New York, reported that one assailant in a fatal attack admitted to its being "knockout", with a police sergeant noting that the assaults he was investigating were definitely "for a game" rather than being attempted murders or robberies.[10] On November 23, 2013, The New York Times reported that police officials in New York City were considering their position on the "game" and were wondering if they should advise the public, but had to contend with the uncertain existence of the game.[10] Police in New York City questioned whether they were faced with a trend or a series of isolated incidents.[63] Then-New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly refused to refer to the attacks in Brooklyn as the "knockout game" to avoid possible copycat attacks.[60]

Several assaults associated with the knockout game do not follow any particular pattern; in several instances, a single assailant attempted a one-punch attack while in others multiple assailants participated in a gang attack. The "Knockout King" death of Nguyen in St. Louis was such a gang attack. Additionally, an alleged trend in Lansing, Michigan called "point 'em out, knock 'em out" involved the use of a Taser.[60]

Many officials have outright refused to refer to the assaults as a "game", with Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter explicitly stating he did not want to give the idea any credibility while at a press conference after an attack at a Philadelphia pizzeria where the suspects never mentioned the game.[60] In a CNN interview with Don Lemon, Nutter stated he was not sure if the knockout game is real or not, adding he less concerned about the name but saying the incidents are of "great concern" and could spark copycat behavior. Nutter would not answer if the attacks were racially motivated and stated that Philadelphia has no confirmed "game" incidents.[72] Earlier, Philadelphia Police spokeswoman Tanya Little determined a November 11 attack as part of a knockout game.[73]

Jamelle Bouie of The Daily Beast was critical of the game's existence as a trend, comparing its existence to the "wilding" assault allegedly at hand in the Central Park jogger case and the often reported headlight flashing urban legend. While he did not deny that several people were attacked and one had died, he pointed out that the attacks were not really rare, noting the FBI had reported 127,577 unarmed assaults in 2012.[11]

Jesse Singal of the Columbia Journalism Review noted that several of the news reports on the knockout game featured videos taken from the Internet without any contextual evidence that the attacks were possibly related to the knockout game. Many videos began with the victim already facing their assailant, rather than the videos depicting the victim being blindsided by a random attack. He also found one example where the attack did not take place in the United States nor was the assailant a teenager following a viral trend; rather the video depicted an attack in East London by a 35-year-old man who may have had substance abuse problems or mental illnesses.[citation needed]

When Singal approached several local news stations, a representative from an NBC affiliate responded saying that the footage had been taken from a shared pool of stock footage that other NBC stations in the area were given, and generally, if the footage is found to be inaccurate there would be a digital note concerning it. The note was absent in the case of the London video for reasons unknown. Singal's investigation led him to believe that people around the country are being told a story that has not been properly researched.[74]

Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, gave the knockout game his first annual "Over-Covered Stories of the Year" award, due to what he perceived as excessive coverage by Fox News.[75]

Robin Abcarian for the Los Angeles Times criticized this reporting style by a conservative analyst, saying that blame was shifted onto the federal government. Abcarian noted that Barrett explicitly stated he was seeking a black victim, and postulated that he may have been acting on this "lazy narrative that black teens were randomly attacking white people". She criticized the statement by Rev. Sharpton and the conservative news sources who began supporting him after decades of opposition.[13]

Tommy Christopher, writing for Mediaite, claimed James Rosen's report for Fox News on the attack was misleading, noting claims made by Rosen that it is the first such attack to be charged as a hate crime, when it was the first under federal statute. Christopher cited the arrest of Amrit Marajh in Brooklyn and the investigation of the alleged assault on Taj Patterson, a gay black man who claimed he was attacked by a group of Orthodox Jewish men, as proof of this.[76][77][78]

Abcarian criticized the reporting of this attack as possibly being related to the knockout game trend, as the alleged attackers sought out Patterson because he was gay rather than because he is black. She also brought up a case of a fabrication of a "knockout"-style attack, after the victim and her boyfriend revealed she had lied that she was attacked at random by a stranger and instead he had struck her, noting that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch did not report the initial attack as a "knockout game" attack.[79] Abcarian claimed that the 2011 attack by Dajour Washington on James Addlesburger was being used for sensationalism. The video of the assault was shown by Bill O'Reilly, which Addlesburger felt was being exploited and manipulated to fan racial hatred. Washington, who spent nine months in juvenile detention for the attack, appeared on Nightline in 2013 and claimed he had not attacked Addlesburger because he was white but rather because he was the only man present. Washington also claimed that at the time of the attack he had never heard of the "knockout game".[12]

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What Is The Knockout Game? – News One

Three New Jersey teens are currently locked up on murder charges after they allegedly punched a man to death during a game of Knockout, according to the New York Daily News.

The three teens, all from Jersey City, followed the homeless Hoboken man, Ralph Erick Santiago, 46, down a street back in September. One of the boys punched Santiago, causing him to fall back from the blow and collapse onto an iron fence, where he died after his neck was wedged between two posts, police said.

After the cops released video of the teens near the scene of the crime (screenshot above), they eventually turned themselves in. They are being held at the Hudson County Youth Detention Center without bail. Ironically, Santiago was disabled some 20 years ago in the Bronx after a similar attack, according to NJ.com.

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Investigators believe the teens were playing a violent game called Knockout when they attacked Santiago. The game is simple: walk up to an unsuspecting, defenseless person on the street and try and punch them out with one blow. While there is not data showing exactly how many people have died as a result of this horrible act of violence, many cases similar to Santiagos have made national headlines in the past.

A 72-year-old St. Louis man, Hoang Nguyen, was killed in April of 2011 after being attacked in a game of knockout; the attacker, Elex Murphy, was convicted on second-degree murder charges. Many more of these attacks have taken place over the years nationwide, according to Wikipedia.

Across the pond in London, 16-year-old Tasneem Kabir was viciously punched from behind by Michael Ayode, 34, in a 2012 attack that was captured on camera. When a judge asked him why he did it, he said, she didnt have a friendly face.

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Tiffany Thompson got her wish: Demetrius Murphy met the Right Person and he will not be playing the Knockout Game any more. Ever.

A St. Louis homeowner shot Murphy dead late last week during a burglary. And a whole lot of people in St. Louis feel relieved, if not safer.

Murphy was a member of a group that is credited with making the Knockout Game a St. Louis tradition, then a national pasttime.

The rules of the Knockout Game are simple: Begin with a bunch of black people. Anywhere from three to 30.

Find a white person, but an Asian will do. Alone is important. Older is better. Weak and defenseless even more so.

Without warning, punch that person in the face as hard as you can. You win if you score a Knockout.

If not, keep punching until your arms and legs get too tired to continue. Or the person dies.

You can play anywhere, but vibrant and culturally mixed neighborhoods are probably the best. That is where the victims are: Asians, gays, artists, yuppies, seniors , college students people who wont fight back.

Over the last two years, hundreds of people around the country have become victims. Some say over 100 in St. Louis alone. Some died. Others, like Murphys victim Matt Quain, suffered broken bones in his face and jaw.

Last week, four members of the national Championship Alabama football team were arrested after three played the game two times, and the fourth tried to use a debit card taken during the attacks.

Many of these cases of black mob violence are documented in the book White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return racial violence and how the media ignore it.

Murphy and his friends were arrested in November 2011 when police found a 13-year-old girl who witnessed the Knockout Game assault on Quain. The charges were dismissed after she failed to show up. The mayor of St. Louis said there was no doubt in his mind the witness was intimidated and too frightened to testify. The mother of the witness said the same several months later.

The gang was jubilant, and took to FaceBook to say so. FREE ALL MY TKO GUYS, said one of the members of the mob that was freed, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Two days later, two members of the group tracked down Quain and threatened him again.

He threatened them with pepper spray and they ran.

The pace of the Knockout Game picked up in other places with other victims. That is when Tiffany Thompson made her wish at a news site reporting the results of the latest St. Louis victim:

as a black woman i will say this, i wish they would run into the right person who is armed to defend themselves with a firearmi bet we will see a drastic decrease in violence in our city. it is embarrassing and shameful the image these losers portray of blacks in st louis. i do not and never will reside anywhere besides the suburbs of this city, because no one is safe among these savages. do not get angry when people call them thugs, because that is exactly what they are and no excuses can be made for this barbaric behavior! its disgusting!!!

That right person was a St. Louis homeowner who found Murphy and a friend in his backyard at 1:30 a.m.

Missouri citizens are protected by the so-called Castle Doctrine that allows the use of deadly force against intruders.

But Murphys friend, a 17-year-old man, was charged with murder because he was an accomplice to a felony where a person was killed.

Murphys grandfather, Paul Furst, told KSDK that Murphy was mentally challenged did not deserve to die:

I believe this is another one of the Trayvon Martin stories where people are getting so gun happy they shoot just on impulse now. I could understand if he was a threat. But on the property, he was not a threat.

Murphys grandfather had nothing to say to a neighbor who said he, too, was a victim of Murphy: Jonathan Preiss told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

I live 3 houses down from where the shooting took place. I believe they are the ones who threw a rock and a brick into my window, stole my tv, ps3, wii and games as well right before this happened. They ransacked my room, no regard for my property. I am still freaked out over this whole thing. I hope this is a lesson of the consequences for violating my communitys privacy.

Murphy was 15 years old.

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