DesireeNevermind said:

The fact that he had to drive to the home, is premeditation.
The argument has to be that he did not intend to kill his son when he went to the home. Very tough to prove here.
If did not have the gun on his person when he left his house, it's arguably premeditation. If he had to get the gun, what other purpose would he have needed the gun for to deal with his 15 year old son. He can't credibly say he felt threatened, so he went to the threat . . . .

If the gun was in the car, he had to get the gun before going into the house.
To suggest there wasn't a belt or some other tool to discipline isn't credible. That's premeditation.

Marching his son outside to a parking lot is premeditation.
It's hard to argue that he did not intend to kill his son when he marched him out of the house. Premeditation.

It's first degree murder with malice aforethought. (He intended to kill and did kill.)

Temporary insanity? Doubtful also. He wasn't in the home. He had to take time to get there. No problem doing that or confronting his son.
His emotional state isn't going to be enough to say that he was not in a state of mind to know what he was doing.
Why march his naked son outside? Why shoot him execution style? Why shoot him in a parking lot? None of that says insanity. It says deliberation.
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I just had a thought. What if the Dad was trying to cover up something?

maybe the son had been touched and the dad knew and was worried that the son would tell?

OnlyNDaUsa said:

yeah, this makes the dad come off as a hero, when maybe... It's like those firefighters that end up being the one that lit the fire.

SUPRMAN said:

But couldn't he have snapped the moment he heard the news of what his son did to his daughter? It takes only a minute to grab a gun. You can be in a crazed state and still operate a vehicle. Also, maybe he didn't intend to kill him until he reached the front door and saw him. Who knows what he was thinking when he went over there. Perhaps he went over there with the he intent to threaten his son but not actually kill him. Also, we don't know fully how the mother framed the story to the dad. Perhaps she made it out to be so horrible that the dad couldn't take it and reacted with violent instinct. Any parent in the animal kingdom will kill to protect their offspring.

Now you bring up the fact that he marched the naked boy outside and shot him in front of several witnesses (after he beat him). That in itself is very odd behavior. Who would do that where others could see? Then he drives off as if nothing happened. Again, very odd and suspicious behavior. I still think he could use some sort of mentally impaired defense...either insanity or something else depending on his overall medical history. I just don't see this playing out as a regular ole homicide on the defense's part. Unless this dude is a total idiot (and he could very well be) he's gonna come up with some story to explain why he reacted the way he did.

Boy Killed by Father Was Known as Teddy Bear

Video of the arraignment shows a relative of the child being taken out of the court room after screaming "No, no, no," when Pinkney Sr. was led into court.

His lawyer, Corbett O'Meara, called the incident a "devastating tragedy."

"My client is in shock and in mourning, but is hopeful that his family will be able to come out of this in as whole a state as possible," said O'Meara.

Pinkney Sr., who turned himself into authorities, had no previous criminal history and had worked "for years" as a letter carrier for the United States Post Office.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/...703&page=1

This is just too strange. So this man has no history of violence, hears that his one older child molests his baby child, then apparently acts out of character and commences to pistol whipping and murder. Then the judge has to enter a not guilty plea on the dad's behalf. Some weird shit.

A Highland Park teenager was shot to death execution style after he confessed to inappropriately touching his 3-year-old half sister. Detroit police say Jamar Pinkney Sr. barged into Jamar Pinkney Jr.’s home, where he lived with his mother, and beat the boy before ordering him to strip naked. He then led the frightened 15-year-old out into a field where he shot him to death.

Lazette Cherry, Jamar’s mother said she was only trying to teach her son discipline when she called his father and told him what the boy had done. “I called and told his father this isn’t something you sweep under the rug,” Cherry said Wednesday.

Pinkney Sr., who was separated from Cherry and lived with the 3-year-old and her mother, rushed to the home with a gun.

“He started beating him right here,” Cherry said from her living room. “I said, ‘No, please stop!’ “ She said Pinkney Sr. marched the boy naked out of the house — in full view of neighbors — and ordered him on his knees.

“He got on his knees and begged, ‘No, Daddy! No!’ and he pulled the trigger,” Cherry said from her home on North Street in Highland Park. “There wasn’t nothing that my son wouldn’t do for his father. He loved his father so much.”

Jamar was shot once in the back of the head. Pinkney then calmly drove away. He was arrested 3 hours later and charged with one count of first-degree murder, three counts of felonious assault and one count of felony firearm.

Cherry said the 3-year-old’s mother took the girl to a hospital to be examined Sunday. She said Jamar told her he never raped the child and kept his clothes on.

A physical exam showed no evidence of sexual trauma.

Pinkney is being held without bond.


This is so sad on so many levels

Why strip him naked?

You just never know how a father will react.

paintedlady said:

1 thing is 4 sure.....he won't be molesting anyone else.

damn if that boy wasn't a dead ringer for his dad. like looking at a childhood photo of the father.

Deadflow3r said:

Seriously, what if the dad did this to the son and his reaction is an extension of his own self loathing. This story is unbelievably sad all the way around.

Can that kid be called a pedophile ? considering that he was a child himself ?

banks said:

No.

banks said:

No.

mcmeekle said:

...so he could rape HIM, before killing him. I'm sure there's more to this story than ever made the light of day.

PDogz said:

There is damn sure more to this story than what's being reported. I'm apalled at the way people are rushing to judgement without having more facts. Did the boy have troubled history or was this out of character? What about the dad?

This so called father's response to the incident is just as sick and twisted as what his son did. I'm trying to piece together the different reports...


http://www.crimenews2000....end.2015.3

So apparently, the mother of the three year old told the boy's mother about him lying on top of his little sister and he admitted it? It's already been established that there was inappropriate contact, but no rape. Then the mother, (who I suspect knew he would explode) calls the dad. He comes over and beats the kid, then for some sick reason strips him naked? Then shoots him down like a dog in public? And drives away like it's no big deal?

I can understand being mad enough to hurt him for doing something so heinous to his own sister, but beyond that what this man did was abominable. Why not have him locked up and treated? Treatment for someone as young as 15 could be successful.

It's possible that these are two are shitty parents and may be the main cause of the boy's troubled behavior in the first place. I get the impression that they're are hiding something.

banks said:

No.

JudasLChrist said:

Sure he can.

He was well past puberty and the 3 year old had yet to get there. In Michigan the age of consent is 16 which also by Michigan law would allow him to be emancipated and viewed as an adult (or tried as an adult for any type crime).

I could see if the little girl was like 12 or 13 then you would consider it just statutory rape but in this case where the victim is 3....that's outright pedophilia.

DesireeNevermind said:

That's stupid. A kid touching another kid is not pedophilia.

It's possible that these are two are shitty parents and may be the main cause of the boy's troubled behavior in the first place. I get the impression that they're are hiding something.

JudasLChrist said:

it is pedophila if the victim is a baby and the perp is one year away from legal adulthood.

Definition of Pedophilia:

The term pedophilia (or paedophilia) has a range of definitions as found in psychiatry, psychology, law enforcement, and the vernacular. As a medical diagnosis, it is defined as a psychological disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a sexual preference for prepubescent children.

DesireeNevermind said:

My father is a specialist in adolescent male sexual abuse and clergy abuse. I know what the appropriate terminology is. But one sexual interaction with a 3 year old by a 14 year old does not a pedophile make. Kids transgress all kinds of boundries until they learn better. Sounds like this kid new he did something wrong and told his mother. Pedophiles are adults by definition and they don't often admit to doing wrong, that's why you get people like Michael Jackson (technically an 'ephebophile')who says obscufant things like "I could never hurt a child". Basically Michael was stating that he didn't believe that the sexual relationship he had with the boy was harmful to him. He was unable to see himself as a perpetrator of abuse. This boy sounded like he had more awareness than a perp, and it also seems like he did anything to the child that actually harmed her physically.

I don't believe the Mom was so innocent in all this. She may have even lied on that boy. She was probably enraged that the boys Dad was living across town with another "family", leaving her jilted & scorned with a son that she probably had little love for, and who at 15 was probably out of her control.

Mom would have known that Dad had a temper, and I'm sure she would have also known he had a gun. Mom probably figured, I'll just call this boys no-good father up, drop a lying dime on his ass (...something that was sure to make Dad good and mad; like his new baby girl -with that no-good bitch of a new wife- being molested), and Dad will come over here and take care of this boy but GOOD.

I'll seriously bet you this Mom orchestrated this whole shit. Because if the son honestly molested his little sister, Mom could/should have called the Police, had the girl taken to a Doctor, and followed up from there. Instead, she set that boy up (whom I'm sure she would have had issues with) to be killed. And the icing on the cake is two-fold. The mother of the girl (and wife of HER ex-husband) gets her marriage ripped apart, and Dad gets to go to prison for murdering his son, to boot. And she gets to sit back looking like a helpless victim - free to get her freak-on all over again.

Good work Mom!