Category: Stupid Things People Do for Sneakers

A pair of Balenciaga sneakers cost a Minnesota teenager his life. According to a criminal complaint, police responded to a shooting that occurred at a Plymouth apartment complex at 5:56 pm on November 14. WHen officers arrived, they discovered 17-year old Yaseen Thomas Johnson slumped over in the passenger seat of a Buick Enclave that was parked near the complex’s dumpsters- there were bullet holes in the windshield. Tragically, Johnson was declared dead at the scene; the medical examiner said that he had been shot three times- two shots in…

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When Keith Cannon opened Valid Kixx back in March he said he did so because in his own words, “just wanted to bring something culturally to this area with the sneakers.” Unfortunately for Mr.Cannon a group of thieves seem dead set on ruining that vision. Last Sunday the store was the victim of a smash-and-grab robbery. “Well got an alert to my phone. I instantly knew that somebody was breaking into the store. I watched some 25 people come through that window right there.” The robbers came in one after…

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According to police in Mannheim Township, PA say a man was help at gunpoint by a 19-year-old male as the youngster helped himself to four pairs of the man’s Air Jordans/ police say that Hayden M. Thomas of York, used a took a shotgun from the side of the victim’s home and pointed the weapon at the vicim as the theft transpired. Law enforcement adds that Thoman admitted to planning out the robbery with another male, as the pair was en route to the victim’s home. Thomas was charged with…

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A New Jersey man found himself the victim of a robbery when he was selling a pair of sneakers. The victim, a 20-year-old Bayonne man , made arrangements online with two males to meet August 14. At the meeting, which happened in area of West 30th Street, a gun was pulled and the seller was relieved of the footwear and the the robbers fled the scene. In lieu of this event and one just a week prior where two teenagers were arrested for attacking a man, from whom they had…

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