Prosecutor: Taunts led to stabbing

Prosecutor: Taunts led to stabbing: "An argument that ended with a knife blade embedded in an 11-year-old boy's heart had begun hours earlier as a childish taunt about a pair of shoes, a prosecutor said in a Cook County courtroom Friday."

Now, what would you assume if this was as far as you got in the article? I assumed that the person who got stabbed was the person who had done the taunting. Not so ... read on ...

"At some point, Terry argued with Clay and made fun of the younger boy's shoes, saying they were "hand-me-downs," Garcia-Camilo said. Clay then left the apartment. A bit later, Terry went to the building's backyard, where he allegedly sold drugs, Garcia-Camilo said.

Two people later told police they saw Terry standing near the open back door of Clay's apartment, Garcia-Camilo said. About 2:30 the next morning, screams came from Clay's apartment, Garcia-Camilo said. He had been stabbed through the heart, investigators say."

Pays to read the whole thing, eh?