Posted by mbk (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 12:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Hell he wouldn't have gotten very far if he would have escaped and ran his pants would have been by his ankles in no time and even if he would have gotten away he would either be sitting on the front porch tommorrow or at the carwash

Posted by ladyfriend (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 2:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Ouch! That was a 'little' harsh don't you think?? I am relieved they found the thieves. People do crazy things for money these days..

Posted by jr8619 (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 6:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Same old story...where are the parents?

Posted by eXmarksthespot (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 7:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)

well when you sit around all day bc you dont have a job i guess you just get bored huh?...try getting a job and not waiting on the government to send you a check. DRAIN ON SOCIETY!!

Posted by stateofnatchez (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 7:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Damn!!

I am patiently waiting for the day that we can read one of these idiots was scraped off the road after receiving a un-healthy serving of lead.

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

Posted by gottabehappy (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 7:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)

crack heads

Posted by troypage (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 7:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Crack heads with guns !

Posted by Teach4Peace (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 8:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)

McKnight's name is always in the paper, for something up to no good, and this is my second time seeing Buchannan's. What's the problem? I don't know any of these two personally, so I don't know what their "rearing" and family life was/is like, but these two are on a fast track to either prison, or dead. Years ago, I had an instructor, very good teacher who used to say, "if you parents can't "learn" you something, the police surely will!" It's so sad and ridiculous that there is a segment of society, who won't think twice of robbing someone for their hard earned cash, while they do nothing but sleep all day and commit crime at night or basically whenever. Wow. Sad indeed.

Posted by been_there (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 8:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Absolutely worthless people.

Posted by natchezsouthside (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 9:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)

MLK would be so proud.

Posted by cchat123 (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Everytime I visit Natchez...I leave with the perception that Natchez is such a peaceful town...flowers blooming, people always speaking and smiling as if Natchez is Peyton Place.
And as soon as I pick up the paper in another state...the headlines are unbelievable.
Is there another Natchez which I am unaware...because I do not see all this going on?

Posted by SIOUXLADY (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 10:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)

MCKNIGHT... HERE IS ANOTHER GROUP..
What I don't understand is... never know who has fire power....

WAIT A MINUTE.. WAITING ON HIM IN HIS OWN TRUCK... VICTIM drove to his house after being robbed... then called police....SOMETHING DOES NOT SMELL RIGHT HERE. ASK the person running the store to call police for you. SOMETHING just ain't right.

kicking out the glass of the patrol car. DUMD DA DUMD DUMB DUMB.....
There should be a law of loitering too..
It is quite annoying when people are just hanging on the outside of the stores. NPD..... Make them move along.

MAYBE BE ILLEGAL.. BUT I KEEP MY SWITCHBLADE WITH ME AT ALL TIMES.

Posted by Teach4Peace (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 10:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

cchat123, be thankful that you don't! I am so glad when I visit Natchez, I don't witness any of this madness either. My parent's neighborhood is basically the same as it was when I left it. They don't allow thuggish, ignorant behaviors, everyone keeps up their lawn and it's just as nice as I remember. This is one of the issues that faces adults and young folk today, regardless of race. These children now, want it their way and NOTHING short of that will appease them, no matter how they have to get it. This is dangerous! Along the way, children MUST be given boundaries and told NO. They must be taught actions and consequences and parents and guardians must be CONSISTENT in doing so. We have the problems we have now, because kids aren't and weren't checked at the door!

Posted by beachgirl (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 11:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Umm what does keeping up a lawn have to do with anything.....I work with the public black and white, & I honestly don't see many overgrown lawns.

Posted by Teach4Peace (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 11:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)

beachgirl, it has a lot to do with things. We are talking the neighborhood hasn't gone to the dogs, like so many other neighborhoods, to help your understanding.

Posted by Bates (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 12:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

First of all, don't be judging my nephew like he is just a criminal. Before you judge anyone look at your own self and your flaws,because you ain't perfect neither. My nephew Demetric McKnight has a good mother, thats gives him the world, and he is a good person, he just hang around the wrong crowd.The Natchez Police Department should investigate some more, cause if the victim left the scene to go home, then something don't sound right. Why didn't he use Zipys phone or tell the worker to call the police. My nephew will not go down for something he did not do. Yes he is a teenager, but all teenagers do things that we are not proud of, but just point the finger at him, the other boy is a troublemaker as well. My nephew DEE will beat these charges and I say to him keep your head up, cause GOD got you,and don't pay attention to what people say about you cause they talked about Jesus Christ. Love U DEE.

Posted by beachgirl (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 12:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Teach I actually have very good understanding. My mother lives in the Melrose area & I can go through there & see overgrown yards, but it is a great neighborhood. Just saying I work on both sides of town & don't see many overgrown yards on either. How often someone does yard work does not depict what type of person they are. Those unattended yards that you are seeing may belong to the elderly, handicap, or the poor that can't afford the tools to do it. How about you start knocking on those doors & finding out. And if its one of those three, offer your services, you may change someone's life.

Posted by beachgirl (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 12:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

No excuse

Posted by theresaandbobby (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 1:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Bates, we ain't judging, the law did that. And as far as him "beating the rap" well ain't that sad. What does he do when he is hangin' with the WRONG crowd? Preaching the gospel? Even Lot knew he would be changed by hangin' with the wrong crowd. Ain't this typical? Did he graduate from high school? Is he going (or was he going) to college?
Where did he get the gun? Does he know that pointing a gun and robbing someone is wrong? Natchez----UGH. There are actually parts of Mississippi where the "kids" get involved in more than crime. They help other people, get their education and lead PRODUCTIVE lifestyles.

Posted by vilouO9 (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 1:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Bates, you trying to say that your delinquent nephew is like Jesus Christ is the EPITOME of blasphemy and ignorance! Jesus never robbed anyone at friggin gunpoint!

I get that you're trying to take up for your family, but geeze! He, and his "trouble making friend", held up a guy by jumping in his truck and putting a gun to the guys head, then stealing his personal belongings! Do you not understand that this is MORE than "just a little teenage mistake"??

I'm sure he's got a great set of parents, and had a great upbringing, but something went wrong. I'm not gonna point fingers and blame the parents, or the hood, the town, the "crowd", or any of that... These things just happen.

And THAT is why we have Angola Rodeos :)

Posted by Teach4Peace (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

There are exceptions to any rule. By and large, my experience has been the other way around. Thanks for your info, however.

Posted by RTSJR2 (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 2:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

"First of all, don't be judging my nephew like he is just a criminal"

Bates, here's a little news flash for ya, HE IS.

Posted by Herro (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 4:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Dey got no talent readin da cue card and neva gonna marry cause dey no wants to be mr oprah winfrey

Posted by padlock (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 4:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Blah blah blah blah blah, you folks in Natchez, ranting on and on about the same ole stuff all the time. Citizens of Natchez complain so darn much, exactly what are you doing to make the city a safe one, the garden club is running the whole town, and you cowards are afraid to stand up to the crimes that are going on there, come on you are as guilty as the criminal themselves.
As for Demetric McKnight, this is the second time I have seen his name in the paper, people are so quick to judge, do you watch the first 48, at the end of every arrest, each individual as governed by the law is innocent til proven guilty. I am related to him and I can say he has a wonderful mother, and grandmother for that fact, yes he has been hanging around the wrong crowd, but don't we all at some point or another ? For some reason they find this exciting and interesting until reality kicks in. I am sorry to here that this has happened, but the truth will come out, this man probably owed one of them money otherwise why would he go home and call the cops instead of staying on the scene, and Dee is too big of a kid to hide from anyone.
I am not justifying his actions, and I hope he learns from this situations, because prison is not a place for anyone.

Posted by chuckydaone (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 4:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Reading this, I thought of Paul Harvey. I need "the rest of the story" in order to know what happened.

Posted by double011 (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 5:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

These guys mcknight and others where in the same parking lot changing a tire for over an hour, an officer had all ready questioned them earlier and when the call came, she knew every person involved and btw folks it's all on zipys camera system, and the boy would have been stupid to stay around, who knows what would have happened, the call came in and the officer over the radio called the owner of the white contour by name and even knew his address, dumb dumb dumb

Posted by belle_south (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 5:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)

as an advocate of innocent until proven guilty, i find it suspicious that the man went all the way home to call the police. Why move the vehicle and yourself from the scene of the crime and head in the same direction of the criminals who had a gun. I smell a rat. This sounds like a drug deal gone bad or something along those lines. Too many holes in this story.....
" few minutes later, they were located on North Concord" sure they were right after the "victim" told where his pushers/loansharks??? lived.....

Posted by commander (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 5:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

victim called po-po on the cell phone, he left the scene cause the thugs didn't leave. why hang around to get shot. NPD did their jobs....what more do you want?

Posted by merge_natchez_adams (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 5:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Bates: you'd better get yourself a bus schedule for visiting day at Parchman.

Your innocent little nephew is going to be going bye-bye.

Posted by merge_natchez_adams (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 5:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

For all you deadbeats who whine about the lack of jobs in Natchez:

Unemployment rates in some states.

North Dakota 3.6%
South Dakota 4.5%
Nebraska 4.8%
New Hampshire 5.9%
Minnesota 6.8%
Wyoming 6.8%

Mississippi 11%

So why don't you whiners MOVE to N. Dak, S. Dak, Neb, etc etc!!

They have low unemployment! Go where the jobs are, you dolts! LEAVE HERE!!!

Posted by veroniss (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 6:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)

We need a draft to the armed forces,get these bad young people being white or black or any color off the streets.Then we will be better off....

Posted by Continental_Line (anonymous) on July 21, 2010 at 9:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Such daily events are not even "news" anymore.

DRAFT ? NO WAY ! Do not tarnish our Military Heroes by any thought of mixing these "thugs" into the same company with the military .
God Bless our volunteers defending this nation's freedoms ( Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard ) .

"Don't tread on me"

Posted by SIOUXLADY (anonymous) on July 22, 2010 at 10:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)

HERE WE GO AGAIN;)

(1) UP HOLD YOUR LOVED ONES WHEN THEY DO WRONG.
(2) BRAG ABOUT THEM NOT GETTING ANY PUNISHMENT
(3)SEEMS LIKE ALL FEATHERS DO LOOK ALIKE

BUCKLE UP NATCHEZ..... THEY WALK AMONG US.