Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/kentucky-teen-defended-girl-shot

Since 2020, firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in the US between the ages of one and 19, ahead of car accidents and poisoning, according to researchers.

Did you read the article? He and others stopped a pedophile from getting his hands on a young girl. Allegedly, the pedophile was the one who escalated to violence in both charging at the victim and stabbing a defender.

The article does not state why the other teen shot him. Why are you assuming the worst?

Read the article before commenting you sound like a creep by making this lazy offhand comment in the context of this article.

Idk i think your comment makes perfect sense, the rest are getting angry because they don't understand it maybe. You're not assuming anything negative about the victim, just noting that it's quite the shame his life was marked by violence, and it's a microcosm of the problems we face as a nation with violence that our children have no choice in participating in.

This phrase:

He escalated a situation to violence

Is untrue.

You did judge him:

He escalated a situation to violence

That is not the case.

Was it a violent confrontation? Not until:

Sakellardis allegedly tried to charge Stasel

Nice strawman. Of course I think it is good that he and others stopped a sexual predator.

This part remains untrue:

He escalated a situation to violence

It reinforces racist stereotypes.

It is fair to say the violence escalated when a grown man cat called a 12 year old girl.

Why are you commenting about that after they died defending a girl from sexual assault

I don't talk about the complicity of the west in global warming when my friends send me pictures of the extremely dangerous air quality in north america from all the wild fires, they can't control that, they're nice and they're suffering

Why are you bringing this up when that teen died defending a women

Fucking asshole

To be clear, he was shot sometime after the incident where he defended the girl, reason unknown. But I agree with your sentiment.

I can't help but think showing no compassion towards the inability of a child to radically alter the state of the environment in which they are raised to meet your set of values may be an opinion best kept to yourself.

Neither article indicates Da'Jon escalated the situation. You simply do not have enough information to conclude that without drawing from your own biases. I also notice you only denounce the child's "violence", omitting that of the police and the pedophile himself.

What a complete moronic take.

Go sell your brain on eBay, you're not using it anyway

That said, this article list two major incidents in this child's life, both of them centered around violence as conflict resolution.

Neither of which he chose, based on available information.

“a lot of grown men around … weren’t going to do [anything]”.
“So, we had to do something,” Hayes-Burr said.

This is increasingly my sentiment lately too. Feel sorry for the kid and his family.