Through_The_T
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Yeah, I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
"There wasn't a motive to target Dobson." Ok... sure, if you say so.
It's quite possible he was minding his own business, but it is odd these guys came over from another side of town and started shooting randomly. It was clearly a retaliation of some kind.
If I understand correctly, there was a shooting on the other side of town where a guy's Mom got shot and he was intended target (gang related). Guy goes after the shooter and gets wrong person? It happens, in fact, happened in Vestal a while back. The police chief isn't going to rush in front of cameras saying this poor kid is an innocent victim and hero if there is reason to believe otherwise.
Yeah, it happens, but there's no way the police have the whole story at this point. The guy that went to Lonsdale was shot on his way back home and died later. Who shot him if he was randomly attacking people in Lonsdale? Someone came back at him just like he was in search of someone in Lonsdale. I'd wait before saying the kid is a hero (he may very well be) because there are a lot of details missing from this story.
It's quite possible he was minding his own business, but it is odd these guys came over from another side of town and started shooting randomly. It was clearly a retaliation of some kind.
I'm not saying there is no way the kid is innocent, he very well really could have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time. Most of the time though these gangs know each other and they know who is who so the idea of it being a random shooting involving the wrong guy is typically slim.