2 black Teens in Ohio Davonte Johnson 14 and Eric Thomas 13 plead guilty to role in murder over botched Marijuana robbery

In my continuing series to demonstrate how dangerous teenagers truly are, we have this. 

Columbus Dispath reports Davonte Johnson and Eric Thomas were risking no more than a truancy charge when they decided to skip school on April 26 and roam the streets of the Near East Side.

But a chance meeting with an older teenage acquaintance — who carried a handgun — led to plans for a robbery.

Those plans turned deadly when they targeted a 43-year-old man sitting on a park bench, who resisted and was shot.

Johnson, 13, and Thomas, 14, could be locked up until age 21 after they admitted their involvement in the killing yesterday.

Each was convicted of a delinquency charge of murder with a gun in a plea agreement with prosecutors. The deal requires that they testify against the accused shooter, 16-year-old Steven Lee, if his case goes to trial.

Lee’s case was transferred to adult court in July. A trial date has not been set.

The three were charged with killing Celestin Ganga when he refused to hand over the marijuana he was using to roll a joint on a bench in Sawyer Park at about 11 a.m.

“Somebody is dead over marijuana, and you had a role in it,” Franklin County Juvenile Court Judge Kim A. Browne told the teens. “You’ll have to deal with that.”

Under the agreement accepted by the judge, Johnson and Thomas can apply for early release after serving three years with the Ohio Department of Youth Services, minus the four months they have served since their arrests.

Assistant Prosecutor Dan Lenert said the robbery plan was hatched after Lee, of E. Starr Avenue, showed the gun to Johnson and Thomas. The three decided to rob Ganga after spotting him in the park near Skyview Towers, the former Sawyer Towers housing project.

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“He was only a teenager!” was the frequent defense used by Al Sharptin and others during the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case.  My retort has always been that teenagers are more dangerous than adults.  I think the events of the past week are proving