As He Died, Teen Wouldn’t Snitch On Murderer
From SunTimes.com:
Robert Tate wasn’t ever going to snitch — not even when it came to his own murder, according to the Chicago Police.
Tate, 17, was shot in the chest as someone approached him on a West Side sidewalk on the evening of April 12, police say. Seeing that Tate was wounded badly and probably wouldn’t make it, an officer asked: Do you know who shot you?
“I know,” Tate told him. “But I ain’t telling you s—.”
That’s according to Harrison Area Police Cmdr. Anthony Riccio, who said the murder investigation is focusing on a possible shooter — even though Tate took his secret to the grave.
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“Unfortunately it’s almost a culture among the drug dealers and gang members, that code of silence, that ‘don’t snitch’ mentality that they not only have when they’re witnesses, but also when they’re the victims,” Riccio said.
But Tate’s mother Cynthia Washington doesn’t buy it.
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