Several years before a Corliss High School student was fatally shot during a botched armed robbery, he seemed determined to succeed... but at what cost?
On February 10, 2014, three suspects, one of them armed with a gun, tried to rob an off-duty Cook County sheriff's sergeant at the CITGO gas station at 721 East 103rd Street, on Chicago's Far South Side.
The gunman, 16-year-old Deonta Dwight Mackey, a reported sophomore at Corliss High School, was killed when the off-duty cop shot him in the head.
As Mackey laid dying on the cold ground, his life's blood spilling onto the concrete, Mackey's cowardly accomplices fled the scene.
At the time of this report, authorities were still looking for the other two offenders.
Back in 2012, Mackey created a blog called Corliss High School Athletes.
This was his only post:
Hi, My name is Deonta Mackey. I am a student at Corliss High School.
Today I am writing a blog about athletes at Corliss High School. I wanted to create this blog to tell you about the athletes at Corliss high school; I am one of them and its a lot more.
At Corliss high school we dont (sp) quit; we work hard as we can to get better cause quiters (sp) will never get no where in life. Corliss High School has good programs to get better at stuff. I will like you to go visit our website so you can read about more stuff that has gone on at Corliss High School.
According to ChicagoPolice.org, between January 22, 2014 and February 4, 2014, there were five robberies within a one mile radius of the gas station were Mackey was shot to death.
Four of those robberies involved the use of a handgun.
A high school student should have better writing skills. No wonder he's dead. Dumb ass.
ReplyDeleteWhy did tha poleece have to shoot him dead? That ain't right. He was just starting to turn his life around.
ReplyDeleteNo, reread the article. He talked about positive things in a blog - once - 3 years earlier. The police officer shot him cause he was holding a gun to the officer's head.
DeleteJust taking the trash out. Good riddance thug POS. I'm just sorry that the other 2 got away without being shot too.
ReplyDeleteI love reading stories with happy endings!
ReplyDeleteI just wish more of us could defend ourselves against these savages the way this off-duty sergeant did! How dare any city tell it's citizens they do not have the right to protect themselves and there families. The good people need to be playing on level ground with these worthless scumbags.
ReplyDelete"How dare any city tell it's [sic] citizens they do not have the right to protect themselves and there [sic] families."
ReplyDeleteYou just murdered the English language.
18 hour internet shifts, what a psycho fuckface loser you are.
DeleteThe real crime here is that a perfectly good bullet was sacrificed on that POS
ReplyDeletethe kid lived as a loser....died like a loser. i just hope he didnt already have 5 kids!....we'll be paying for them too.
ReplyDeleteNice shot. Now let the word get out that soon more people will be armed too.
ReplyDeleteCrime will stop dead in its tracks nationwide the day our elected politicians enact universal "right to carry" concealed weapons laws. My personal preference would be a 15 shot 9 mm Mauser.
ReplyDeleteI went to high school with this young man's dad. I feel for his family but his actions were deplorable. Today's society has to realize it does take a village to raise a child.
ReplyDeletefuneral photos
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200575017337688&set=pcb.10200575266383914&type=1&theater
No way those pics are as entertaining of the video of him gettin shot...
ReplyDeleteGood riddance, lowlife!
ReplyDeleteBest head he ever got...may he rot in Hell for all eternity....and B>S> about turning his life around.....Good Riddance........The Carry Law should take care of a lot more of these animals!
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