Brother: Teen died 'fooling around' with bulletproof vest

A 21-year-old faces a murder charge in the death of 19-year-old Miguel Henry Martinez. The victim's brother said friends of Miguel encouraged him to put the vest on and assured him he wouldn't get hurt. That's when Elijah Lambert allegedly fired the
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[pittviper]

The vest probably didn’t have any inserts... tragic

[jeremiahooms]

Bulletproof vests have to have armor plates inside them to protect the user.

[Jayo]

"play stupid games win stupid prizes" r.i.p smh

[GiantDad]

I guess they watched too much of the boondocks

[vanilla]

The vest needs a amor plate to work, That's why he probably died, he did not equipped it with the vest, without it, it is not bulletproof, the vest needs it to work, the most important part.

[sammybarajas]

Let’s be honest homie was probably gonna end up getting shot at some point

[michaelrich]

Well shouldn't be fooling around with it in frist place

[demxxxxx]

Bullet Proof vests are Not infallible!

[iamnani_]

Lol that bullet proof vest probably came from wish

[Sig]

The best probably didn’t have any actual armor inside of it. But even if it did bulletproof vest or like a safety on a firearm it increases the safety but does not guarantee it.

[HazmatUnit]

They need to clarify in the title, that the bullet proof vest did not kill him, the bullet did, or say teen dies after fooling around with bullet proof vest and gun

[isaiaha]

That “bullet proof” vest sucks ass hopefully the company heard about this and actually made it bullet proof

[infidel]

Darwin won this one. I'll have a coke.

[life]

But yet it doesn't say nothing about homemade body armor or did they buy this and it was supposed to be real bulletproof armor

[iamczm]

"He was a good buddy". 19 with a active firearm ye alr

[syoung]

Florida, the very bowels of the gene pool.

[nancyspain]

“Common sense” isn’t the most common of senses! However, if stupidity were one of our senses it surly would be considered the most common of senses🙁. Elijah Ray Lambert and his common sense caused the end of a young man and his potential possibilities of a productive and successful existence! Perhaps Mr. Lambert will be able to spend the rest of his life improving it and making sense of its existence. I wish him luck in his endeavors doing so!

[iniuni]

Not foolinv arouund, is just fooling people who dangerous another