Teens beat another teen over phones, necklaces; guns are used
- Jamie Duffy
- 5 hours ago
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FORT WAYNE, IND. ---Another couple of days, another teen robbery, brazen events often taking place in daylight hours.
Wednesday at 2:17 p.m., Fort Wayne police were called to the West Wind Apartments in the 2100 block of Point West Drive on a report of an armed robbery.
An unsuspecting teen had gone to the apartment of Jaylin Early, 18, after Early offered to fix the victim’s phone, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Detective Liza Anglin, formerly a homicide detective, now in robbery.
Early grabbed the victim’s two phones and told him he was keeping them. The victim, a minor, thought he was the only person in the apartment, but at that moment, three other teen boys entered the room and started beating him up, he told Anglin.
Kayden Kubisty, the other 18-year old, beat the victim on the head with a gun, court documents said.
The victim said he was able to crawl out of the apartment and call 9-1-1. When police arrived, the four accused of the beating and robbery were inside the apartment, apparently unaware their victim had escaped.
No one seems to talk about the guns these kids have. Instead, they blame the parents. But these kids own guns, borrow them, hide them, break them, use them. The idea that they would revert to good old fisticuffs is a nostalgic trope.
Everytown for Gun Safety USA, a gun control lobby founded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ranks Indiana 27th in gun law strength, up from 29th last
year.
In its rankings, states received a composite score based on gun deaths per 100,000 residents.
“When we compare the states head-to-head on the top 50 gun safety policies, a clear pattern emerges. States with strong laws see less gun violence. Indeed, the states that have failed to put basic protections into place—”national failures” on our scale—have a rate of gun deaths two and a half times higher than the states that are national gun safety leaders," the report said.
The 10 safety leaders in gun safety policies are fairly predictable: California, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland and Washington.
Indiana was considered a “weak system,” but not a “national failure” as 14 states were.
“If every state in the country had the gun death rates of our National Leaders, we could save 299,000 lives in the next decades,” the report stated.
In other reports, gun deaths are the leading cause of death for children ages 1-17.
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During this incident, no one was shot, but guns were used in the violence described in court documents.
One minor interviewed by Anglin, referred to as JBH, said after the victim arrived, he heard Jaylin and the victim fighting, and “jumped in and started beating.”
Kubisty’s version was that he was at Early’s apartment and knew the victim was coming over. When the victim arrived, Kubisty said he was on the balcony. He claimed he heard Early and the victim laughing and talking.
Then, Kubisty said, he heard Early “telling him to get off of him,” so Kubisty and the two others “ran into the room.”
But who was telling whom to “get off of him?” The victim reported that the group yanked two silver necklaces off his neck.
And when officers searched the nearby bushes underneath the balcony, they found the victim’s phones, his two now-broken silver necklaces and narcotics.
Early’s narrative was that the victim came over to the apartment to work on a firearm and that he and the victim got into an argument over what the work would cost.
The other minor, TG, refused to speak during an interview at police headquarters, court documents said.
During a warranted search of the apartment, police found two pistols, a lower part to an automatic rifle, ammunition, miscellaneous gun parts, two broken silver necklaces and unidentified narcotics.
As for the victim, he was taken to a local hospital. He told doctors he’d been punched in the head and hit with a firearm multiple times and had even lost consciousness for a period of time. There was an abrasion to his left knee, his left thumb and two large abrasions and knots on the top of his head.
Early and Kubisty were charged with Felony 2 robbery resulting in causing serious bodily injury and Felony 5 battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
Their initial hearing is Monday.
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