A crazed Missouri dad has been convicted of shooting a volunteer youth football coachin the back for not giving his young son enough playing time.
Daryl Clemmons, 45, shot married father of five Shaquille Latimore, 34, five times near a practice field in St Louis — as a group of 9- and 10-year-old kids on the team “were playing nearby,” the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office said.
He targeted the St. Louis BadBoyz coach in a rage at “the amount of playing time Clemmons’ son had been getting,” the prosecutors said.
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Daryl Clemmons (pictured) turned himself in after shooting Shaquille Latimore. AP
Clemmons and Latimore were both armed when they started fighting on Oct. 10, 2023 — with the coach handing off his weapon to a friend, telling the dad he was ready for a fist fight.
But “Clemmons rejected that idea and shot Latimore five times,” prosecutors said.
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“I didn’t see his gun until it was already too late,” Latimore, who has since recovered from his injuries, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time. “I ran, and he shot me in the back. I fell, and he shot me a couple more times.”
Clemmons, who used to coach the same team before Latimore came on board, allegedly taunted him while he was on the ground before other adults jumped in.
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“After he shot me, he was like … ‘I told you I was going to pop your a–,'” Latimore recalled.
The dad fled the practice field but handed himself in that night.
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Daryl Clemmons, 45, shot married father of five Shaquille Latimore, 34, five times near a practice field in St Louis — as a group of 9- and 10-year-old kids on the team “were playing nearby,” the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office said.
He targeted the St. Louis BadBoyz coach in a rage at “the amount of playing time Clemmons’ son had been getting,” the prosecutors said.
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4Daryl Clemmons (pictured) turned himself in after shooting Shaquille Latimore. AP
Clemmons and Latimore were both armed when they started fighting on Oct. 10, 2023 — with the coach handing off his weapon to a friend, telling the dad he was ready for a fist fight.
But “Clemmons rejected that idea and shot Latimore five times,” prosecutors said.
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“I didn’t see his gun until it was already too late,” Latimore, who has since recovered from his injuries, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time. “I ran, and he shot me in the back. I fell, and he shot me a couple more times.”
Clemmons, who used to coach the same team before Latimore came on board, allegedly taunted him while he was on the ground before other adults jumped in.
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“After he shot me, he was like … ‘I told you I was going to pop your a–,'” Latimore recalled.
The dad fled the practice field but handed himself in that night.
Crazed dad convicted of shooting volunteer football coach for not giving his young son enough playing time
Daryl Clemmons, 45, shot married father of five Shaquille Latimore, 34, in a rage at “the amount of playing time Clemmons’ son had been getting,” prosecutors said.
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