From NBC Washington:
David Robinson, a 19-year-old from Northwest DC was shot and killed Sunday. The cause of the incident, according to reports, was a $200 pair of Nike Rookie athletic shoes. Robinson was visiting a friend with a cousin in far Northeast DC when two men in an SUV pulled up, stole the shoes and shot Robinson.
Robinson was pronounced dead at Howard University Hospital. Hours later, at a previously scheduled church vigil against gun violence Sunday night, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) called the shooting “not only tragic” but “incredibly disquieting.”
“A life for a pair of Nike tennis shoes?” the mayor said. “Come on, ladies and gentlemen. It’s time for us to be able to end this kind of tragic violence in our society.”
