South Carolina: Teens Arrested For Kidnapping And Robbery, Purposefully Targeted White People

A trio of black teenagers have been on a month-long crime spree, purposefully selecting their victims based on race.  The teens have been arrested, and while in custody stated that they do not like white people and were only robbing white people.

WISTV reports:

Richland County Sheriff’s Department says three teens have been arrested in a crime spree that was escalating from a delivery robbery to armed robberies to a near sexual assault. And the victims were targeted because of their race, according to Sheriff Leon Lott. 

“This was a crime spree. They would not have stopped,” Lott said. “They made a statement that they did not like white people and they were only going to rob white people.”

Lott says the two suspects, 17-year-old Raquan Green and a 15-year-old whose name has not been released, were arrested Wednesday. The third suspect, a 15-year-old boy, was taken into custody at his home on Walcott Street. Lott says the trio used racism to pick their victims. 

. . . .  “Between July 3 and July 26 there have been seven separate incidents of armed robberies, some to include carjacking and kidnapping along the Bluff /Shop Road Corridor,” Lott said. “Investigators discovered that the suspects began targeting delivery drivers by committing armed robberies. The crimes then escalated to carjacking and kidnapping victims.”

. . . . Lott says one of the victims, who was African American, was released from the suspects when they found out she was not white.

. . . .  All the incidents happened late at night where delivery drivers were targeted and students were moving into student housing or leaving apartments in the

Jordan, the only victim who spoke at the press conference, said she was returning home to her apartment at The Village Apartments on Southern Drive from work on July 26 around 12:15 a.m. when a group of three black males pushed her to the ground and placed a gun to her head.

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The report says the men threatened to kill her unless she drove them to a nearby ATM. She complied, the report said, and withdrew $300 from her account. 

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