Update: Suspect claims beating WWII Veteran was over drug deal

see Two Black Teens Beat WWII Veteran To Death In Spokane

August 21, 2013 88 year Delbert "Shorty" Belton a retired aluminum company worker was brutally attacked in the parking lot of his Eagle lodge Wednesday night. 16 year old Kenan Adams-Kinard and another black teen beat the man with large flashlights. Some are linking this to shooting of Chris Lane the Australian baseball player shot at random, and that the president and civil rights industry given black youth a reason to attack whites. Kinard told his mother they beat the man after they tried to buy drugs from Belton, but there was no evidence this could have been true.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/28/accused-teen-murderer-claims-they-were-buying-crack-from-88-year-old-wwii-vet-delbert-belton/

Aug. 28, 2013 

Teen Accused Of Killing 88-Yr-Old Vet Says It Was Over Drugs

According to NBC News, one of the two teenagers charged with murdering a World War II veteran is reportedly claiming they were buying crack cocaine from the 88-year-old man when the exchange turned violent. ..Prosecutors said in court Tuesday that police found a letter Kenan Adams-Kinard wrote to his mother reportedly claiming they beat and robbed Delbert “Shorty” Belton because he stiffed them in the crack sale, The Spokesman-Review reported. Adams-Kinard, 16, was making his first court appearance since he wasarrested on first-degree murder and first-degree robbery charges Monday.

“There’s absolutely no truth to that whatsoever,” Belton’s nephew Ian Day told the newspaper after court. “By saying these things they’ve brought darkness upon themselves.”