Thread: Father of teen arrested in beating: 'Kenan's a good kid' (Delbert Belton murder)

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By Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) August 28, 2013

Father of teen arrested in beating: 'Kenan's a good kid'

"It was a rude awakening to me," Steven Kinard said. "It's telling me, damn, what could I have done for my son?"

The father of one of the teens implicated in last week's beating death of a decorated World War II veteran thanked God for his son's peaceful capture, saying the family had met with Spokane police and prayed for his safety.

"I hope they find out what really happened," said Steven Kinard, whose 16-year-old son Kenan Adams-Kinard was found by police hiding in a friend's basement in the 500 block of West Montgomery Avenue early Monday and taken into custody.

"Kenan's a good kid," the father added, calling Belton's death a "tragedy."

The younger Kinard and Demetruis Glenn, also 16, are accused of killing 88-year-old Delbert Belton in a Wednesday robbery outside the Eagles Lodge in north Spokane. Belton, who police say fought back against his attackers, was pronounced dead at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.

Prosecutors have indicated they'll seek to charge the teenagers as adults on first-degree murder and first-degree robbery charges. Both are being held in lieu of $2 million bond.

Glenn, who turned himself in last week, appeared Monday in Spokane County District Court, where he listened calmly as Judge Richard Leland read the charges and allegations against him. Friends were in the packed courtroom and later tried to talk to Glenn outside before police whisked him to the county's juvenile jail.

Meanwhile, the fatal assault continues to draw international attention as veterans groups and others express outrage over the brutal attack.

Belton, who survived the Battle of Okinawa and returned to Spokane to work at Kaiser Aluminum, had been waiting for a friend in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge and planned to spend the evening shooting pool. He instead was found unconscious and bleeding profusely in the front seat of his Ford sedan.

Spokane police Chief Frank Straub confirmed Monday that it appears the attackers had intended to rob Belton but the confrontation escalated.

"I think a robbery just got worse," Straub said, adding that "these are two young men who just spun out of control." The attackers took cash and left the mortally wounded victim to die.

The new details emerged Monday as police announced the capture of Adams-Kinard, the final suspect in the case.

Adams-Kinard had eluded police for days.

The teen's father, Steven Kinard, said he hadn't talked with his son since Aug. 14, a week before the homicide. Speaking on the front stoop of his family's home in the East Central neighborhood, Steven Kinard wondered Monday what could be done to avoid the violence.

"It was a rude awakening to me," Steven Kinard said. "It's telling me, damn, what could I have done for my son?"

Steven Kinard described the teen as a gifted multi-sport athlete and an improving student. Descriptions of the violence taking place in Belton's sedan, which left the victim with numerous facial fractures, are out of character, Steven Kinard said.

"Kenan is no violent person at all," he said.

Steven Kinard said his son was mostly raised by his grandmother and the church, where he plays drums each week.

The elder Kinard and his brother Terrence, Adams-Kinard's uncle, have had run-ins with the law. Terrence made headlines a few years ago for appealing to a federal judge while awaiting sentencing on drug charges to spend Thanksgiving at his mother's home. At the time, he had failed to appear for numerous court dates. But both men said it would be unfair to link Adams-Kinard with their past mistakes.

The Kinard family reached out unsuccessfully to Kenan, trying to get him to turn himself in, Terrence Kinard said. Steven Kinard said police came to his house, and he prayed that his son would be taken into custody without harm.

"I just thank God that they brought him back safe," Steven Kinard said.

Police also arrested three friends of Adams-Kinard suspected of helping him hide from police over the weekend.

Both Glenn and Adams-Kinard had prior arrests and convictions on their records, Straub said. Adams-Kinard was serving six months probation and sentenced to 30 hours of community service stemming from a fourth-degree assault and third-degree robbery conviction in June, according to court records. He was booked into jail shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday and also will appear in District Court as early as today.

Straub lauded the work of investigators in quickly apprehending the two suspects. But he said preventing these incidents in the future will require collaboration between citizen groups and the police.

"This is not a law enforcement issue, this is a community issue," he said.

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This is a truly heart breaking story. America's Black Youth have bought into the Obama lie that the government owes them their livelihood and that their horrible social and economic conditions are the white man's fault.

Obama will start a war to cover this and his other nation-killing disasters up before America is able to do something about it.

What a catastrophic disaster the First American Black President has wrought upon Black Americans ..

Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

This is a truly heart breaking story. America's Black Youth have bought into the Obama lie that the government owes them their livelihood and that their horrible social and economic conditions are the white man's fault.

Obama will start a war to cover this and his other nation-killing disasters up before America is able to do something about it.

What a catastrophic disaster the First American Black President has wrought upon Black Americans ..

as I said this is all Obama doing. he is for all other country & the hell with the us.

Father of teen arrested in beating: 'Kenan's a good kid'

This man is delusional, and I would ask just exactly is he good for?

The father of one of the teens implicated in last week's beating death of a decorated World War II veteran thanked God for his son's peaceful capture, saying the family had met with Spokane police and prayed for his safety.
"I hope they find out what really happened," said Steven Kinard, whose 16-year-old son Kenan Adams-Kinard was found by police hiding in a friend's basement in the 500 block of West Montgomery Avenue early Monday and taken into custody.



"What really happened" was Murder of an 88 year old man!!!!

Sounds like they are just wonderful kids don't they!!!!!!!

Relatives Of Teen That Killed “Shorty” Made Excuses While Shorty’s Family Is Threatened By Clash Daily / 26 August 2013

The fugitive teenager wanted in connection with the brutal murder of an 88-year-old Spokane WWII veteran has been arrested this morning after a four-day man-hunt. Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, is the second teen to be arrested for the murder of Delbert Belton, who was beaten to death with flashlights in a random attack in a bar parking lot where he had arrived to play pool on Wednesday. The teen was arrested on a 1st degree robbery and 1st degree murder warrant and was brought into custody by Spokane police to join fellow suspect, 16-year-old Demetrius Glenn, who was arrested on Thursday. Several other people found with Adams-Kinard have been arrested for rendering criminal assistance to the teen during his time in hiding. He was found in a basement apartment at 500 West Montgomery in Spokane and arrested without incident at 3.00 a.m. according to KHQ.Com. Prior to his arrest, the family of Kenan had urged him to come forward and turn himself over to the police. ‘He’s out there and if anybody knows where he’s at or something, they really need to contact the family because we are trying to bring him in,’ said Kenan’s Dad, who wished to remain anonymous. ‘We don’t want this prolonged, we really need to get this over with and get through with this and find out what’s really the situation, of really, what happened in this tragedy.’ imagesCA93Y03T Rather than a random murder, Kenan’s uncle said that he believed there was another side to the murder which has not been heard. ‘They are building it like these kids just went and beat up an old man, which it didn’t occur like that, but it is all going to come out,’ Kenan’s Uncle said to KHQ.Com. Last Thursday night, police arrested Demetrius Glenn, 16, in connection to the slaying of 88-year-old Delbert Belton, who was savagely beaten with flashlights in the parking lot of his regular bar in Spokane on Wednesday. Belton, who was shot in the leg during the pivotal battle of the Pacific campaign, passed away from serious head injuries Thursday at Sacred Heart Medical Center in the city. Police told Belton’s daughter-in-law, Bobby, that he was beaten with heavy flashlights in the assault which left him bleeding ‘from every part of his face’. Witnesses to the attack said that Belton, who was going to play pool, was outside the Eagles Lodge at around 8pm when two male suspects set upon him. A friend said the veteran had just pulled up and was waiting for a female friend so she didn’t have to walk in alone. See and read more at Daily Caller Shorty’s nephew said today in an interview with Fox and Friends that his family is now being threatened by other black community members. See Interview with Shorty’s nephew from Fox and Friends


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Guess this 88 year old man beat "his self to death" Guess these family members are calling and threatening them selves too!!!

Teens May Have Murdered WWII Vet Because He Tried to Defend Himself Posted on August 27, 2013





And since this was black kids being violent this means race wasn’t an issue. Where if things would have been reversed you can be sure it would be racism. Check it out: Delbert Belton, the 88-year-old World War II veteran who was savagely beaten to death last Wednesday by two teenagers, may have been murdered because he tried to defend himself and fight back while he was being robbed. Spokane police have indicated that Belton enraged the teens when he tried to fend them off, which prompted them to beat him with “big, heavy flashlights” to the point where Belton was bleeding from every part of his head. “Our information is that the individual fought back and that may have made this, you know, a worse situation,” Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub said on Monday. Other witnesses have said that Belton, who was shot in the leg at Okinawa in World War II, was waiting for a female friend outside the Eagles Ice-A-Rena so that she would not have to walk in alone when the two teenagers, who have since been arrested, robbed and killed him.

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Uncle Of Accused Killer Of WWII Vet On Nephew’s Involvement: ‘It’s Summer And Ain’t Nothing To Do Here.’” Wednesday, August 28, 2013

On the day that the second teenager charged with the vicious murder of a WWII veteran in Spokane, Washington, is due in court, police revealed the sickening brutality inflicted on the helpless 88-year-old victim. Attacked in his car on Wednesday in the parking lot of Eagles lodge, Delbert Belton was found wedged between the two front seats of his car on Wednesday and was battered so badly he sustained brain damage and had lost too much blood to survive the violent attack. Kenan Adams-Kinard and Demetrius Glenn, both 16, are accused of battering the war hero to death with flashlights after he fought back during a robbery and according to Belton’s daughter-in-law ‘They just kept hitting and hitting him.’ ‘He was an 88-year-old man,’ said Barabara Belton to NBC News. Even if they wanted his money and he didn’t want to give it to them, they didn’t need to do that.’ ‘They did a horrendous thing and they need to pay the consequences.’ And speaking one day after the dawn arrest on Monday of 16-year-old Kenan Adams-Kinard following a four-day manhunt for the killing of 88-tear-old, Delbert Belton, his uncle said that living in a small town narrowed his ability to make friends. Post Continues on weaselzippers.us

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Excuses, Excuses, Excuses, y'all understand now these were good kids!!!!!! So good that they beat and beat and beat an 88 year old man to death!!!!!!! More boredom I guess!! The devil made em' do it!!!!!!!