GUILTY PA - James Stuhlman, 51, slain while walking his dog, Philadelphia, 12 March 2015

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Arrests have been made in the murder of a 51 year old Philadelphia father - James Stuhlman - who was killed in an attack by three youths while walking his dog.

Cops found the man still clutching the dog leash and a flashlight, NBC 10 reported. His faithful pet lay trembling next to his lifeless body.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...Stuhlman-Walking-Dog-Overbrook-296849631.html

The media are portraying the crime as a "robbery gone bad" but in fact nothing was stolen leading some to speculate that this was in fact a racial-bias hate crime.

Picture of victim: James Stuhlman (6 ABC) https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd...._=1434086822_057bdc750dd0a10a4d6038ce8089bf4b

Picture of alleged killers: (6 ABC) https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd...._=1437920845_dc5007340e3683856a761f498d76f3e4
 
This makes me feel sick. Totally senseless, mindless violence.

Rest in peace James
 
This ^^^^ is the kind of thing that is going to come , like blowback, from all of the HandsUpDontShoot protests. IMO, it is hyping people up into a frenzy, making them think in racial terms. JMO
 
Wow. Live 51 yrs only to be murdered by kids!!
What the Hell is wrong with kids? Do they just sit around all day smoking weed, playing grand theft auto, killing cops, Hookers and pedestrians. Stealing cars, assaulting people. And think there will be no consiquences doing the same thing in RL?
 
katydid23 said:
This ^^^^ is the kind of thing that is going to come , like blowback, from all of the HandsUpDontShoot protests. IMO, it is hyping people up into a frenzy, making them think in racial terms. JMO
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This kind of thing has been going on for quite a while and the media simply chooses to ignore it. People believe these are "random isolated cases" when in fact they are not random at all, the perps are always a group of youths that fit a certain description and the victim is typically a lone white male. If the perps are a gang of teen females they will target lone white or asian females.
 
Brandon Smith, B/M/15, & Tyfine Hamilton, B/M/15, for

Murder+ of James Stuhlman, W/M/51

Philadelphia is in South-Eastern, PA.

Day 9

Fri., Mar. 20th: WPVI-TV : http://6abc.com/news/murder-charges-filed-against-two-15-year-old-boys-in-overbrook-shooting/556111/:

Includes Video

Cause Of Death: Gun Shot Wound to Chest

Manner Of Death: Homicide

Philadelphia Municipal Court:

Defendant Smith:

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/CPReport.ashx?docketNumber=MC-51-CR-0008149-2015:

Charges Include:

18 § 2502 :: Murder

18 § 3701 :: Robbery - Inflict Serious Bodily Injury

18 § 903 :: Conspiracy

18 § 907 :: Possession Instrument Of Crime

Pre-Trial Confinement Without Bail.
 
15 years old. It makes me so sad and so angry. Love how that article blithely states they decided to rob someone, like it's a perfectly normal thing to do. And then, mysteriously, Mr Stuhlman is shot dead. No mention of a gun being in the hands of a 15 year old playing basketball. It just *appeared*, like an afterthought.

WHY were these boys armed? WHAT were they thinking? HOW is this normal behavior for them? (Normal as in that nonchalant decision to just rob someone, spontaneously.)
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3rd-teen-charged-in-murder-of-philadelphia-dog-walker-james-stuhlman/

Police have charged 15-year-old Tyfine Hamilton with murdering a man walking his dog in West Philadelphia...

Hamilton turned himself in on March 20, eight days after 51-year-old James Stuhlman was gunned down. He is charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery, violation of the uniform firearms act and related offenses...

Hamilton and another 15-year-old, Brandon Smith, are charged as adults. A 14-year-old suspect faces robbery and conspiracy charges.
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"Please don't shoot me" James Stuhlman pleaded for mercy before being shot dead.


This makes me sick to my stomach. Not just hyperbole, reading this story made me physically sick to my stomach. And the mental image of his dog trembling and in shock as he lay on his owner is heartbreaking.

Police say that the teens were playing basketball when they decided to rob someone. Initially, they targeted a different man walking his dog until they saw Stuhlman who was older and whose dog looked "weak."
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"At one point he did plead for his life," said Clark. "He said, 'please don't shoot me, please don't shoot me,' and they still shot him one time."
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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...Stuhlman-Walking-Dog-Overbrook-296849631.html
http://articles.philly.com/2015-03-22/news/60373423_1_overbrook-high-robbery-clark
 
June 2016:

Teen gets long jail term in killing of man walking dog in Overbrook

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160610_Teen_gets_long_jail_term_in_killing_of_man_walking_dog_in_Overbrook.html

A boy who was 15 when he killed a father walking a dog in Overbrook last year sat with his head buried in his arms as his victim's widow testified during an emotional hearing Thursday in Common Pleas Court.

Tyfine Hamilton, now 17, was sentenced at the hearing to 25 to 80 years in state prison. He pleaded guilty last week to third-degree murder, robbery, and related offenses in the death of James Stuhlman, 51, co-owner of a Media landscape-supply firm.

"There's not much to say - I took a special man from you and I'm sorry," Hamilton told Stuhlman's widow, Theresa. "I shouldn't have been out there that night, and I shouldn't have had a gun."
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Following Hamilton's sentencing, Brandon Smith's attorney, Joshua E. Scarpello, said his client had declined a negotiated plea offer from the District Attorney's Office and would take his case to trial.

The 14-year-old was charged as a juvenile and his case was heard in Juvenile Court.
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Officer tells of finding shooting victim with dog who wouldn't leave his side

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/Officer-tells-of-finding-shooting-victim-with-dog-who-wouldnt-leave-his-side.html

“I saw a man lying on his back, holding a flashlight in his left hand and a dog leash in his right,” Palmer said, his voice cracking. “The dog was just sitting by his side.”

The man was James Stuhlman, 51, husband and father and owner of a Delaware County landscaping company. The dog who wouldn’t leave his side was "Molly," the Stuhlmans' soft-coated wheaten terrier.

Palmer said he grabbed Stuhlman’s heavy winter coat and shook him several times, hoping to arouse him. Stuhlman, however, remained unconscious and unresponsive. It was only after Stuhlman was taken to a hospital, Palmer said, that he learned he had been shot to death.
Palmer’s description of the eerie scene that night marked Wednesday’s opening of testimony in the Philadelphia murder trial of 17-year-old Brandon Smith, one of a trio of teens who allegedly went from playing basketball to robbing and shooting Stuhlman as he walked his dog.

Smith is the only one of the three to go to trial. The 15-year-old shooter, Tyfine “Tavon” Hamilton, pleaded guilty last year to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 to 80 years in prison. The charges against a 14-year-old accomplice, who was not identified, were handled in juvenile court.
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Teen guilty of 2nd-degree murder of Philly man walking dog

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/Teen-guilty-of-2nd-degree-murder-in-2015-robbery-of-Overbrook-Farms-man-walking-dog.html

Brandon Smith didn’t hold the gun or pull the trigger.

But a Philadelphia jury on Friday found the 17-year-old guilty of second-degree murder in the 2015 attempted robbery and shooting of an Overbrook Farms man accosted by Smith and two other teens as he walked his dog.

The Common Pleas Court jury of eight men and four women took just three hours before finding Smith guilty of the murder charge, two counts of conspiracy, robbery, and possession of a weapon in the slaying of James Stuhlman, 51.

Smith showed no apparent emotion at the verdict, but his guardian, Victoria Zou, sobbed in the back of the gallery.

Theresa Stuhlman, the victim's widow, sat quietly on the other side of the courtroom with about 12 relatives and friends.

“Jim would have been 53 today,” Stuhlman said afterward. “I would like to thank the jury for their service and everyone involved in prosecuting this case.”

Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi set Smith’s sentencing for July 10.
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Good, you need to send a message and put these punks away for a long time, when they attack innocent people. I could tell you a few personal stories of walking on the edge of West Philadelphia and/or Wilmington, DE and groups of young punk kids preying upon innocent people, minding their business.

Somehow, like someone just posted earlier in the thread, the problem is mostly ignored by the media. This story could easily have been me, in my days walking to lunch by University City High. This is not a new story. This type of stuff has been happening for a long time in Philly. You better know where you are walking, and be ready for anything if you are in a dicey part of town. It might not hurt to own a gun for your own safety, if you do business in a tough area. It almost takes a Berny Goetz incident to shed light on the topic, and then you hear about all those sweet ,innocent victims attacked by the vigilante.

Some of you probably don't know who Goetz is. Google it.
 
And honestly, does it really matter if it is a "hate crime?" A crime is a crime. You have an innocent person dead. It is does not matter if the victim was white, black, orange, gay, straight, etc. We should be equal before the blindfolded Lady Justice. I have no remorse for any misguided youth for engaging in such a heinous act. Race and sexual orientation and this "hate crime" designation should have nothing to do with it.
 
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