Five Year-Old Boy Shot at Point Blank Range, National Media Mostly Silent
“Doris Lybrand, who witnessed the shooting, told WRAL that Sessoms ran up to the boy, put the gun near his head and fired before running back to his own house.”
A five year-old boy named Cannon Hinnant was recently shot in the head at point blank range while riding his bike in his yard. The murder was witnessed by his sisters, aged 7 and 8.
The suspected shooter is a 25 year-old man named Darius Nathaniel Sessoms. The national media’s silence on this story is deafening. Why could that be?
WSOCTV News reports:
NC man accused of shooting 5-year-old neighbor in head at point blank range
A 25-year-old man accused of shooting his 5-year-old neighbor in the head at point blank range in Wilson, North Carolina on Sunday night has been charged with first-degree murder in the boy’s death.
Darius Nathaniel Sessoms, 25, was arrested Monday after fleeing the scene and is in the custody of Wilson Police and members of the U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Task Force, The Wilson Times reported. Sessoms was found in a home in Goldsboro.
No details about a possible motive for the shooting have been released, but police said it was not random…
Family members told WRAL that Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his father’s house when he was shot in the head. The boy’s two sisters, ages 8 and 7, saw their brother get shot, according to Cannon’s mother.
Doris Lybrand, who witnessed the shooting, told WRAL that Sessoms ran up to the boy, put the gun near his head and fired before running back to his own house.
“My first reaction was he’s playing with the kids,” Lybrand said. “For a second, I thought, ‘That couldn’t happen.’ People don’t run across the street and kill kids.”
Natalie Musumeci of the New York Post has more details:
A 5-year-old North Carolina boy was allegedly shot dead by his neighbor while riding his bicycle outside his home over the weekend.
Little Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his father’s house with his two sisters, ages 7 and 8, in the city of Wilson around 5:30 p.m. Sunday when he was allegedly shot in the head by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, WRAL.com reported.
The boy was rushed to the hospital, but he could not be saved.
Sessoms, who lives next door to Cannon’s father on Archers Road, was later nabbed in Goldsboro and is facing first-degree murder charges.
Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire makes an excellent point here:
Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters. Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month pic.twitter.com/5V72YhAOlI
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 11, 2020
So does Buck Sexton:
Went online to confirm the details of this story- couldnt find a single national media outlet covering it. Not one.
Absolutely horrific, nightmarish story. Pure vicious evil. And media silence around it is disgusting and obvious. https://t.co/TJhxvnJJIX
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 11, 2020
MSNBC and CNN aren’t interested for some reason:
5 yr old Cannon Hinnant was executed in front of his sisters for accidentally riding a bike on his neighbors lawn. There’s no pain our justice system can impose on his killer Darius Sessoms that‘ll equate to justice. CNN & MSNBC haven’t even covered it. https://t.co/p2lLofbTfJ
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 11, 2020
Here’a a local news report:
ICYMI: Family seeks justice after Wilson boy killed, man captured. #Wilson #CannonHinnanthttps://t.co/5ndGLnel22 pic.twitter.com/X3lKG0mlB5
— Emani Payne (@EmaniPayneTV) August 11, 2020
Horrific.
Featured image via YouTube.
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Young white lives CLEARLY do not matter. This happened last Sunday, its only now getting out. This tells you everything you need to know about the media.
It was covered immediately by the local media and has been extensively covered by conservative blogs. But like the elderly white couple killed by a black man with a scoped rifle while visiting their son’s gravesite, it have been totally embargoed by the MSM.
Why it is as though the MSM & DNC paid for this Murder.
Remember they did!
I view CNN and MSNBC differently. MSNBC doesn’t pretend to be an objective news channel; CNN does, particularly the Missing Link (aka Brian Stelter).
You can make a solid case that CNN was complicit in the death of five police officers in Dallas by a black militant s few years ago as well as a couple of dozen deaths that have taken place since George Floyd.
CNN is doing everything in its power to expand the racial divide in America.
Isn’t the presence of Sub-Saharans in America a violation of the 1972 Biological Warfare Convention?
We’re in a civil war.
Don’t forget that.
It’s so disgusting, so horrible that there really are no words for this kind of monster
I would be willing to give up most of the west coast and and a few on the East coast to separate us forever from such slime.
If it’s war, let’s get it on…
There were reasons for segregated facilities and sundown laws. More and more, those reasons appear to be sound ones.
Never cede territory. Send them back to western Africa as Abe Lincoln intended.
Some of these comments sicken me.
Yes, this sociopath/psychopath did a horrible thing in murdering this 5 year old child.
We are right to react with anger and horror.
But the racist comments are ugly.
To demean a whole race like some of these comments is atrocious.
And these type of comments are becoming more common, although still a minority
I have been coming to this site for years and enjoy the conservative perspective, and the legal analysis on issues.
I will still read the main articles but will now skip the comments.
To those of you who identify as Christians, I encourage you to read “Exclusion and Embrace” by Miroslav Volf, a brilliant theologian at Yale Divinity School who saw firsthand the atrocities in Bosnia.
He noted that we demean those who we view as enemies and make them “other” so we can treat them as subhumans. He does this within the teachings of the new testament.
You can down vote me. I don’t care. Examine your hearts.
I decry the forced training on racism that is planned. But racism is still very alive and well.
Even on Legal Insurrection.
Your mainstream anti-White viewpoint in the comments will be missed.
Hey Barry,
Please explain why my comment is anti-white.
Because I believe people should be treated with dignity, and I don’t disparage a whole race like you do?
Because I believe people should be treated with dignity
Some of use believe people should behave with dignity if they wish to be treated that way.
It’s not asking much. Just a little bit would go a long way.
Did you wash between their toes when you did their feet?
Yes, to demean an entire race based on the actions of an individual is wrong.
Just as judging all LEO by the actions of an individual cop, is wrong.
And furthermore, notwithstanding MSM’s clear bias, it is clear that black on white crime is a much greater problem than cop on blacks police abuse.
Can you imagine if this story was publicized and pandered to by the MSM the way the George Floyd incident was handled?
Mocha, I am an older White man who grew up with “coloreds seat to the rear “ and “White” and “Colored” water fountains. As a young man I worked side by side with “coloreds” and found that we were different, but not that much. In Southeast Asia I relied on “colored” men to keep me alive. Not so long ago, a “colored” surgeon gave a good friend a few more good years .
These people saying that “coloreds “ don’t belong here or that “coloreds “ are ALL defective don’t know jackshit.
It is disturbing to see such close minded, racist crap on this great site of Dr. Jacobsen’s but don’t let that push you away from the comment section, your comment hit the nail on the head and you should continue to write.
The “colored” people who you describe were responsible and compassionate human beings. Completely opposite with the type of person we are beset with today.
Nothing to see here, move along.
…MSM
If it were my five year old, the cops had better keep that guy well locked up. If I were to get any chance, he would be a goner.
Yes, I would face murder one. So be it.
And if I were on your jury they would get no conviction from that trial.
If I were on the grand jury I’d vote no bill. I thibk that is lawyer-ese for “you can’t be serious!”
It is as though the MSM & DNC paid for this Murder.
Remember they did!
The national media’s silence on this story is deafening. Why could that be?
Like MAJack said, but edited: Young white lives CLEARLY do not matter to the media, because it does not support its twisted narrative. The members of the media would be whistling a different tune if every one of them had an immediate family member assassinated by a Black man. By any man. The race of the assassin really wouldn’t matter because All Lives Matter.
Black lives don’t matter to the media unless they can be used for political purposes (killed by cops or whites). Every weekend innocent black children are murdered in Chicago and it receives zero coverage other than local media.
The MSM is Satanic.
Economically, Black lives matter less as, on average, they are net taxtakers. Factor in the damage due to their grossly disproportionate criminal behavior and one can only regard them as a liability.
This crime will get the same media treatment that the Channon/Newsome rapes/tortures/murders got in TN: the media will refuse to cover it, and justify their refusal by saying it’s just a “local crime story.”
Anytime blacks commit horrific crimes against innocent whites, it’s just a local crime story, has no larger meaning, and is obviously not worthy of national coverage, because it’s just an “isolated incident.”
But if a white person (even a “white” hispanic) kills a black person for any reason (even self defense), it’s a national outrage, proof of “systemic racism” throughout the U.S., and gets 24/7 coverage by hysterical media, usually with repeated recitation of “facts” that later turn out to be completely false (e.g., Trayvon Martin was a little kid skipping home from the candy store when he was shot in the back for being a black kid in a hoodie; Mike Brown was a gentle giant who was on his knees with his hands up in surrender when a racist cop shot him dead for no reason, etc.).
As long as there is no push-back against the media for doing this kind of thing, it will continue. Trump was right when he called them the enemy of the people, because that is exactly what they are. They aren’t the only enemy, but they are one of the most dangerous and insidious.
This will get the sane coverage as the white baby shot dead in his stroller down in Macon Georgia several years back. Two diversities were the perps.
Subspecies diversity is our greatest weakness.
I believe I could think of a few ways that monster could come closer to being adequately punished than current laws permit, but I have a monstrous imagination.
I’d be happy with a rope and a lamp post in front of the county courthouse.
Take him to cougar country, hang him upside-down, slice his scalp open, and leave him to his fate.
Cruel and unusual. However, as long as it’s done under a cloak of privacy, and an air of humanity, then it’s probably legal and ethical.
Planned Perp (PP), and, perhaps, reduce, reuse, recycle (“cannibalize”, redistribute) his profitable parts.
In redneck parlance, we call it “triple S”. Shoot, Shovel and Shut up.
All it needs to get into the nationals is mention in a Presidential tweet.
And that is just why Pres. Trump should express his condolences.
“But, where is his message of condolences for the black kid gunned down in Baltimpte? He was only caught trying to do a Reginald Denney on that truck driver…!”
Black guy murders mother of 4 in FL in front of her kids.
Black guy murders both of his baby mamas in PA.
Black guy murders 5 yr old bike rider for no reason.
Yep sounds like we need more gun control laws.
Bingo. If this case gets any coverage at all, it will be to spin it in support of the gun confiscation agenda.
Sarcasm on my part. Just saw Mayor Groot calling for a Biden victory so Chicago can get more gun laws passed. She is truly a idiot. Hyper aggressive, can’t even get through a city council meeting w/o verbally attacking anyone who dares disagree with her. Tells PDJT FU in so many words now she and other IL pols are begging him bail out their fiefdoms. Hey mayor if you read this go suck an egg.
https://www.wilsontimes.com/stories/suspect-captured-in-childs-killing,214265
Sessoms was convicted of felony larceny of firearms in Wilson County in March 2016, misdemeanor maintaining a place for a controlled substance in Wake County in April 2016 and felony marijuana possession in Nash County in November 2016, according to N.C. Department of Public Safety records. His probation was revoked twice in 2017, resulting in separate three-month stints in prison.
At least we know the laws that are designed to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons are working and that felons are not possessing any weapons.
On a similar topic: I just did a Bing search for stories about the attack and looting of the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago. There were only a tiny handful of stories that mentioned the attack, and only one identified BLM rioters as the culprits. The other stories were so bland and devoid of detail they might as well have described an incident of double parking.
The Joseph Goebbels media is truly evil.
In the case of this poor boy in NC it’s not just CNN, MSDNC, NYT and WaPo that won’t cover it… try to find the story on Breitbart or Drudge (which is hardly worth visiting any more). Nothing on either site.
There was a time when all America would have been outraged at the murder of this innocent little boy. That media, for political purposes suppresses the murder of a “white” child by a “black” man because it doesn’t fit their narrative is an indictment on media.
If you have the audacity to say, “All Lives Matter,” you’ll get beat up by the other side. Therefore this must be hidden, tucked away and forgotten, as if it never happened.
Diversity (i.e. color judgment, not limited to racism) breeds adversity. Stand against diversity in its many colors. #HateLovesAbortion
They’ll cover it once they figure out a way to blame Trump.
Journalist: “This horrific crime is merely the latest example of …….. (checks notes)…… white supremacists encouraged by Mr. Trump’s racist Tweets.”
Doing a Google search for “five year old boy shot” yields some interesting results. The only Media references (excluding the local North Carolina TV station) are the New York Daily News, and the Daily Mail in the UK (tabloidish newspaper).
So the info is available, but CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, the NYT, Washington Post, etc. all find it “unfir to print”.
Can’t find it on Breitbart of Drudge either.
You need someone to teach you how to perform an internet search: If you key in “breitbart 5 year old murdered” you get this:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/12/north-carolina-man-arrested-after-shooting-death-of-5-year-old-boy/
Doing an internet search for the name of the killer or the name of the victim does now yield some hits, including at cnn.com and foxnews.com, but most seem to be at websites for TV stations out East.
Sooner or later this was going to happen as the Democrats, their propaganda ministry the media, BLM all pushed for a race war.
This doesn’t help.
https://summit.news/2020/08/13/leftist-5-year-old-boy-deserved-to-be-shot-in-the-head-for-his-white-privilege/
Unbelievable. No humanity in these animals.
It’s a dangerous world. I just don’t have the energy for narrative games anymore- evil comes in all shapes and sizes and is plentiful enough from every direction.
While at the inlaws in a nearby city, some kids 6 and 9 were playing in the alley unsupervised. They wanted my daughter who is 8 to go and play with them. It was innocent enough, but there’s no way I’m letting my kid play like they were. Tough to explain this to an 8 year old, but I have had the talk with her that there are monstrous human beings who will snatch her and kill her. We had it again for this situation.
When she asks why they are like this- my response is “because their hearts were made in hell.”
Odds are good the perp is a heavy marijuana user was was having a weed-induce psychotic episode.
Or maybe he’s just a feral racist monster who should have still been in prison for his previous convictions
There are dozens of shootings a day in the US. Very, very few of them are ever reported. The only real distinction that might make this one newsworthy is the psychopathic action of the alleged perpetrator. But at least half our population is psychotic, so that’s hardly newsworthy. And the statistics clearly demonstrate why democracy is such a bad idea. Who wants to live in a country run by psychopaths who are put in power by other psychopaths? I’ve applied for a permit to change residence. I want to move to the moon. Very few nutcases there. And there’s a nice view of Earth from my future porch. Fortunately, from that distance, it will be hard to see the details of what passes for life on Earth. Except when nuclear war breaks out, sometime in the near future.
I don’t give a RA about the shooter, his history or his motivations. He should get in gueue on death row.
I’d like to ask a “devil’s advocate” type question. Before I start – years ago I posted a similar question on a totally different topic. It wasn’t because I was trying to defend a mainstream media that I pretty much have no respect for – it was because I had encountered an argument with some specifics that I didn’t have a good answer for, and was looking for some perspectives. Unfortunately, I was attacked by a few people (not many, but a few) on this forum by some who believed I was arguing a MSM point. I wasn’t.
So having said that….without a doubt, if you reverse the races of the killer and the victim, you’d have rioting and you’d have CNN coverage for hours and hours and hours. So I agree 100% that this shows, once again, what CNN thinks is important and what is not.
Here’s my question: someone raised a point….”Did they catch the guy who did it? Did they arrest him and charge him pretty quickly? If so, what do you need the protests for?”
My initial reaction was that if the media believes its primary role is to report news to drive social social justice, that’s a narrow-minded view. (Truthfully, had the killer been white and had he been arrested and charged right away, I think the media would STILL push it harder). But I’m curious how others would reply. Again, I don’t agree with the point. Thanks.