Black Man on Black Man Crime

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Edward Wallace may need a real good trial lawyer. Based on his police mug shot and unnamed sources, he’s sportin a newly engraved tear drop tattoo under his right eye.

Which prison and gang officials’ say is a sign that a person has committed murder. In addition, there are reports are that the CSI found the murder weapon tying Wallace to the crime.

Hours before Kyle Moore's funeral, his mother learned that police had arrested Edward and charged him with the May 3rd shooting death and robbery of her son. While walking along Astor Avenue in Atlanta, Moore, a young Black man was fatally shot and robbed around 10pm.

Young Black Man Loses Life Over Cell Phone
The take? The kid’s wallet and a measly cellphone. Why rob someone who is walking with a backpack on? They obviously are not going to have a lot to give. The streets don’t lie and all the signs are pointing to the probability that was more of an issue of building street credibility.

The victim was a three-year starter for the Washington High football team who was being courted by several major colleges including: Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Harvard, Brown and North Carolina State.

Sources say a recruiting letter from one of the colleges was found in his backpack.

Black Man Had a Lengthy Criminal Record

Edward Wallace, who’s age had not been confirmed by our editors was said to live around the corner from the victim at his mother's house.

According to Atlanta police Lt. R.C. Robinson, the department's homicide unit commander, Wallace has a lengthy arrest record.

He was arrested twice in 2003 on charges that included: making terroristic threats, theft by taking, false imprisonment, aggravated assault, fleeing police and drug possession.

In 2005, Wallace was arrested by MARTA police for boarding a bus with a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, alleged obstruction, simple assault and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and by the Fulton County police for alleged forgery.

This tragic incident was the fourth time in recent years that Wallace had been booked into jail. Examining his criminal history, did it seem like Wallace was destined to commit a homicide against a Black man?