Former champ Vernon Forrest killed during robbery attempt

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Muckretired_adminOP

Jul 26, 2009, 05:47 PM

The former welterweight and middleweight champion is the latest boxer to meet a violent end. He was 38. :(

Lt. Keith Meadows told the radio station that Forrest was shot seven or eight times -- at least once in the head -- as he chased at least two men who had tried to steal his Jaguar as he put air in its tires at an Atlanta gas station. Forrest had a gun and confronted the men, who fatally wounded him with two semi-automatic weapons, according to police.

Police said the suspects likely didn't know Forrest, whose girlfriend's young son was in the car when he was shot.

"I just feel so bad, he has a son you know," McGirt said. "Someone is going to be raised without a father because somebody wanted to rob someone."

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4356715

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Crappy TipperNew Member

Jul 26, 2009, 06:08 PM

That's too bad, what I still catch is that he died while giving chase. If he had just driven to a police station he's be with us today.

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Muckretired_admin

Jul 26, 2009, 06:40 PM

According to Dan Rafael, Forrest lost sight of them and stopped chasing. He was walking back to his car at the gas station when one of the guys jumped out and shot him. Once he was on the ground, they shot him several more times. Basically premeditated murder.

I don't know the other circumstances and why he would chase. Maybe he'd been targeted before. Maybe he was worried for the kid and/or they made threats during. Maybe he was just caught up and made a bad choice. Apparently these guys jumped out of a car and tried to steal his vehicle (I presume with the kid inside?).

Just awful.

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