Kristin Bauer - Entertainment Weekly, June 15th, 2012
Another Unarmed Black Youth Shot & Killed.
Darius Simmons was Only 13 Years Old:
- Spooner shot Simmons with a 9mm handgun five feet away from him in the chest, in front of his mother.
- Darius was shot once in the chest with his hands raised. He ran to escape and collapsed at the corner, while Spooner attempted to shoot him in the back, and tried to fire a third shot.
- After police arrived, Darius’s body remained on the sidewalk, while police questioned his mother, Patricia Larry, in a squad car for approximately two hours.
- During the police investigation of the shooting, they searched Ms. Larry’s home again. Finding nothing, they then proceeded to arrest his older brother for having truancy tickets.
- In contrast, Spooner’s family was allowed to go into the home and remove “items” despite it being the crime scene.





