27 years for teen in 'knockout game' slaying of father of 12

[alp227]

The second of three men charged in the "Pick 'Em Out and Knock 'Em Out" slaying of a 62-year-old father of 12 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty.

Nicholas Ayala, 18, pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and robbery in the 2012 killing of Delfino Mora during the vicious street game.

Ayala, Anthony Malcolm, 20, and Malik Jones were each charged with first-degree murder and robbery Mora’s slaying. Malcom is serving 30 years in prison after beingt convicted last July and Jones is awaiting trial.

Mora, an immigrant from Mexico who lived in West Rogers Park, had worked construction jobs after moving to the United States, but had a work accident about 17 years ago. He sometimes went through the neighborhood to collect cans to help support his family, according to his relatives.

full: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-2nd-teen-charged-in-2012-knockout-game-killing-gets-30-years-20140204,0,255805.story

RIP, Delfino

[freshwest]

1. This is very sad. A crime of opportunity. According to this link, the teens put the beating online:

Teen who beat disabled 62-year-old to death in sick 'knock 'em out' video he posted on Facebook is jailed for 27 years

http://www.miaminewsday.com/national/43436-teen-who-beat-disabled-62-year-old-to-death-in-sick-knock-em-out-video-he-posted-on-facebook-is-jailed-for-27-years.html

What will he be like when he gets out of prison? Will he even do 27 years?

Mr. Mora's family will never forget their loved one left this world this way. Just no good reason for doing this.

[JI7]

2. it should have been life

[exboyfil]

3. I find it interesting that conservatives

call liberals soft on crime, but I bet you will not find a single poster in this thread thinking that the sentence was too much. Would such an attitude exist on a board such as this in the 1970s for example? I think the era of Norman Mailer arguing for the release of a murderer has past and conservatives no longer have a soft on crime bogie man to point to.

The father of the one who delivered the deadly blow says he does not understand what the big deal was since his son did not intend to kill the man.

http://www.suntimes.com/13817699-761/prosecutor-teens-killed-man-in-knock-em-down-game.html

But Jones’ father, Terry Jones, said Monday that his son didn’t realize that the blow he was struck was fatal.

“He was only trying to knock him out,” he said, adding that his son’s troubles dated to his joining the gang and time he spent in juvenile detention in DuPage County.

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5. Plenty here deny the phenomenon exists. n/t

[alp227]

7. there's a reason

http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/12/02/the-knockout-game-new-name-old-moral-panic/

[Enrique]

9. myself, for example

i'm skeptical the phenomenon exists.

[morningfog]

12. There is no "phenomenon."

[snooper2]

6. sounds about right, but when is parole available

yes, I didn't read the story, poster fail

[Warpy]

10. Your kid is a punk who punched out an old man, mister

Whether or not he intended it to be fatal, it was.

He needs to be taken off the street until he's old enough to have developed more sense. If he fails to develop better sense, he'll be right back in the can in record time and he will belong there.

[flvegan]

4. The predators become the predated. For decades. YES!!! Punishment.

Be glad kiddies, in Florida, you'd probably be dead already you waste of your parents' time.

[Beacool]

8. Good!!!

Maybe it will deter others from practicing this "game". In my town they killed a homeless man, just for the fun of it. The perps were 13 and 14 years old. They start young..........

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teens-charged-killing-hoboken-man-violent-game-knockout-authorities-article-1.1463380

[exboyfil]

11. A 13 year old and 15 year old at the time

received 18 months for killing another man in a similar case.

http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?list=190258&id=943520#.UvNqb_ldWSo

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/judge_gives_teen_maximum_18_month_sentence_for_killing_of_51-year-old_man.html

Might want to do something about the law in New York.

[Beacool]

13. There have been more victims who died.

These kids need to realize that their "game" can be deadly.