18-Year-Old Indianapolis Man Charged in Fatal Gun Deal

When criminals get together to do business, it’s almost always tense. After all, there are guns, there’s money, and the fact is that no one there is particularly trustworthy. It’s no wonder that so many drug deals turn into shootouts.

And that’s also true when the deal is over guns. Arguably, it’s even more true since, you know, there are guns there and people who want to misuse them.

Should things go sideways, then people can easily die, which is what happened in Indianapolis recently, and an 18-year-old man has been charged.

An 18-year-old has been charged after a reported gun trade on the northeast side of Indianapolis in March led to the death of 15-year-old Tre’von Riggins.

According to court documents recently filed in Marion County, 18-year-old Dwight Knox was charged with:

• Two counts of murder
• One count of robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 2 felony

On March 29, officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s north district responded to a reported shooting at a playground of an apartment complex in the 3900 block of Rue Rabelias.

When officers arrived, they located a 15-year-old, identified by family as Riggins, who was pronounced dead that evening at a local hospital.

The court documents said a gun that reportedly belonged to the teen was located at the crime scene, along with a single fired 9mm cartridge casing. Multiple clothes, including a sweatshirt and a pair of black pants, were located in a neighborhood near the complex.

A witness reportedly told law enforcement that they saw two people at the playground and believed the two were acting normally. However, the witness said it soon turned into a “physical fight.”

The witness said the suspect, who IMPD claims is Knox, reportedly had a handgun. As they drove away from the fight, the witness reportedly said they heard “a single gunshot” and saw the victim fall to the ground. The witness also said the shooter fled the playground on foot.

Of course, neither of these two was old enough to have lawfully purchased a handgun in the first place. This kind of deal wouldn’t go away with universal background checks or anything like that, if for no other reason than they were minors who were clearly uninterested in following the law.

Plus, to put this in perspective, this isn’t the first time I’ve written about some teenager being killed in an illicit gun deal gone wrong. In fact, it’s been about a week since I did it. Both as a person and a parent, I absolutely hate seeing this kind of thing.

However, gun control advocates will look at this and argue that the problem is insufficient gun control, all without ever seeming to comprehend how this deal happened because of the laws on the books, not in spite of them.

I’m not saying that children should be going into gun stores and walking out with a firearm simply because they have the money–I’m not not saying that, either. I’m saying that if you make something illegal, you don’t stop the trade of it.

I find it bizarrely hilarious that the same people who say that abortion needs to be legal because, if you ban it, you’ll just get back-alley abortions also seem to think that gun control will actually stop criminals from getting guns.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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