Thursday Feel Good Story

| July 16, 2020

Carjacker DRT

ST. LOUIS — A would-be carjacker died after exchanging gunfire Sunday night with a man whose car he attempted to steal in downtown St. Louis, police said.

Demarco Combs, 17, was shot about 9:45 p.m. near 815 Cole Street, north of America’s Center. He died at the scene.

Police said he was armed with a handgun when he tried to rob a 22-year-old man of his car. Police described the victim as “an armed citizen.” The two exchanged gunfire, and Combs was fatally struck.

The motorist suffered a minor shoulder injury, described by police as an abrasion.

Combs lived in the 4700 block of Bates Street.

St. Louis homicide detectives are handling the investigation. The death was not listed Monday among the 123 homicides for the year in St. Louis. The shooting is still under investigation and authorities hadn’t determined if the shooting was justified. Justifiable homicides are not included in the official count.

Last year at this time, there were 99 homicides in St. Louis, St. Louis police officer Michelle Woodling said.

Cole Street is the border of the Downtown and Columbus Square neighborhoods. According to statistics, both neighborhoods have seen an increase in crime this year, compared with the first half of 2019.

Just “an armed citizen” doing his civic duty.

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Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

I would count Combs’ death as a suicide. He played the odds against any of his carjack victims being unarmed, and he lost. Bigly.

Anonymous

Death by stupidity.

MarineDad61

Darwinian…. If not Bernathian.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

If Mr Combs could come back to life and try again, would that be a “Combs over”?

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

There has to be a joke in there with “DeMarco” and “Polo”.

AZtoVA

DeMarco… Popo?

Claw

Whiz Wheel®™ score on this hard working urban entrepreneur is:

Demarco Combs (BLDAM* resulting in DRT) 23 x 5 = 115

* Bernathian Level Dumb Ass Move

Fjardeson

“Bernathian Level Dumb Ass Move”
Administrative coffee spew, luckily per TAH reading protocol, chowlock was clear. 🙂

26Limabeans

“The death was not listed Monday among the 123 homicides for the year in St. Louis”

That’s because it is already listed as a Corona death.

5th/77th FA

He will still be casting his ballot for the demonrat party come November, so there is that.

JTB

LET’S RIOT..!!!…

Anonymous

Yes, the guy was just jackin’ people so he could meet a woman, have children and feed them, you know.

Thunderstixx

He needed to get to his church service because….
Well, he was turning his life around you know…..

Anonymous

“Fort Hood Added to List of Ft Hood Off-Limits Establishments” (it’s the Duffle Blog, but I agree):
https://www.duffelblog.com/2020/07/fort-hood-added-to-list-of-fort-hood-off-limits-establishments/

26Limabeans

Be cool if you could remotely set off the airbags.
Be pretty easy to cobble together then go trolling….
Lock the thugs inside and taunt the shit outta them.
Then “airbag” their ass.

Graybeard

Kinda like the engineer-nerd who made a booby-trap porch package that would spray glitter and fart-spray all over when opened – with a GPS and internal camera so he could record and recover?

Fjardeson

Yeah, the NASA guy. Those videos were SO FUNNY!

11B-Mailclerk

Years ago, I was taught how to make a device called a LURD – Long-range Urine Release Device. Basic concept is a harmless looking mechanical package that when opened ruptures a big baggie of “liquid”. Water with Tempra paint is a fairly harmless “hijinks” liquid. A gallon of month-old whizz is not.

Nasty thing to leave on someone’s porch for a porch-pirate to steal. Nasty.

MI Ranger

Anyone see the latest on Levi Strauss and Company? CEO Charles V. “Chip” Bergh announced the company has joined the business wing of Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety” and declared that it would openly advocate for restricting the right to keep and bear arms.

Levi’s used to be the American symbol around the world. I always hated the way Wranglers fit. I guess I will now have to burn my jeans and Dockers and just wear 511s now!!! (I might as well look the part I play…you know “Contractor Pants”) 😉

26Limabeans

I switched to LLBean classic fit years ago.
Expensive but they last.

https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/32863?page=double-l-jeans-classic-fit&bc=12-26-590&feat=590-GN1&csp=f&pos=1

LLBean caters to the left but their bread and butter
is upscale hunting and fishing. Without it they will
become Dick’s.

11B-Mailclerk

Levis went Left-is quite a while back.

Been wearing Wranglers or other brands for 20 years.

UpNorth

Same here. I quit Levi’s when the Made In the USA tag disappeared from their jeans.

JTB

Death Listed as COLT-9mm