{"id":23793,"date":"2017-03-26T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/27\/unreal-teen-suspect-claims-delbert-belton-beating-was-crack-deal-gone-wrong\/"},"modified":"2017-03-26T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:46:22","slug":"teen-suspect-claims-delbert-belton-beating-was-crack-deal-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/23793","title":{"rendered":"Teen suspect claims Delbert Belton beating was crack deal gone&nbsp;wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MelissaKXLY4\/status\/372477788789284864\n<p>One of two suspects in the beating death of World War II veteran Delbert “Shorty” Belton has claimed that the 88-year-old was trying to sell him crack, <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/08\/27\/20213257-suspect-in-wwii-vet-slay-we-were-buying-crack-from-victim?lite\">NBC News is reporting<\/a>. Not only that; 16-year-old&nbsp;Kenan Adams-Kinard claimed in a letter that he made sure the unconscious Belton was still breathing before running off.<\/p>\n<p>An affidavit from prosecutors says that while he was on the run for four days, Adams-Kinard told two friends that the beating was the result of a drug deal gone bad. Police seized a letter signed with Adams-Kinard&rsquo;s name that gave a similar account.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said that after buying a &ldquo;zip of crack cocaine from Shorty,&rdquo; the teens &ldquo;proceeded to sock him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I took his wallet and another ounce of crack from his pockets,&rdquo; the letter said, according to the court document. &ldquo;He was unconscious so I made sure he was still breathing, and then I took off.”<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NoMorCocktails\/status\/372512008622452736\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jodster36\/status\/372513441422258176\n<p>Just for the record, authorities say there’s no evidence to support Adams-Kinard’s claim.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AG_Conservative\/status\/372540014313230336<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/27\/unreal-teen-suspect-claims-delbert-belton-beating-was-crack-deal-gone-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/27\/unreal-teen-suspect-claims-delbert-belton-beating-was-crack-deal-gone-wrong\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MelissaKXLY4\/status\/372477788789284864 One of two suspects in the beating death of World War II veteran Delbert “Shorty” Belton has claimed that the 88-year-old was trying to sell him crack, NBC News is reporting. Not only that; 16-year-old&nbsp;Kenan Adams-Kinard claimed in a letter that he made sure the unconscious Belton was still breathing before running off. An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/23793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teen suspect claims Delbert Belton beating was crack deal gone&nbsp;wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14904999842618-delbert-belton-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}