Teen Killed for iPod, Cell Phone
Jobs offers support to dad of teen killed over iPod: report - Jul. 6, 2005
What’s truly tragic about this story is that the parents had moved out of Brooklyn six years ago so their son would be away from this kind of crime, but he was attacked there anyway. I can’t help but think of some of Bill Cosby’s recent remarks about how inner city kids do not value education, but do value tennis shoes.
It’s nice to see a person like Steve Jobs do something as simple as a phone call to offer support. He didn’t have to do it, and it’s a neat gesture to someone who suffered such a loss.
Christopher Rose was killed Saturday in Brooklyn after Rose and three friends were confronted by a group of teenagers who allegedly demanded that Rose give them his iPod. Rose was stabbed twice in the chest after he apparently resisted. Apart from the iPod, the boys who attacked stole tennis shoes and a cell phone, the report said, citing police statements. … [The father] was also quoted as saying: “We’re failing these kids. We’re not loving them the way we’re supposed to.”
