A 14-year old Richmond (VA) boy tried to rob a man with a gun, and ended up achieving room temperature. Rodvon Daymetric Brown, a seventh-grader at Chandler Middle School apparently used a gun to try to rob a 47-year old man. The man shot Brown in what police are already calling justified self defense. After defending himself, the would-be victim even waited at the scene for Police to arrive. Of course then there are those who would consider the robber to be the victim. (emphasis mine)

Brown's family has a hard time believing the teen was carrying a gun, said Alicia Rasin, a crime-victim's advocate who was consoling family members yesterday. He lived with his mother, an aunt and siblings in the 1400 block of North 23rd Street, right around the corner from where he was killed, Rasin said.

"They just cannot see him having a gun," Rasin said. . .

Grief counselors were made available yesterday to Brown's schoolmates at Chandler. The teen's guardian called the school yesterday morning to report that Brown "was shot and killed as he walked home along Fairmount Avenue," school spokeswoman Treeda Smith said in an advisory sent to Richmond School Board members.

"I'm sick and tired of saying I'm tired," Rasin said of Richmond's latest homicide. "I'm tired of saying, 'When is this going to be enough?'"