7: Vincent witnessed a teen die by gunshot

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Vincent lives and works in Chicago as a photojournalist. He takes a lot of pictures, and a lot of those pictures include crime scenes. In his line of work, he’s used to getting the call, and going to where the news is happening. But there was one night when he didn’t have to go anywhere. The crime scene was just outside his front door. That was the night 17 year old Michael Patton was gunned down during a thunderstorm. Vincent heard the shots, and ran outside while his wife called 911. The teenager had been shot in the chest and in the head, and he died while Vincent held his hand. We talked about Vincent’s perspective on this experience, both as a photographer and journalist, and as a father. An experience like this is certainly something that none of us wants to go through. If you’d like to contact Vincent, or see some of his photography, you can do so by checking out a project he’s currently working on, called Lost Americana. You can see that at lostamericana.com. Vincent also wrote an article for the Chicago Sun-Times about this incident. I’ll have a link to that in the show notes for this episode, at whatwasthatlike.com/07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Welcome to what was that like. I'm your host Scott Johnson. This is a show where
0:49.1	we talk to regular people, people just like you or just like me, who have found themselves in an extremely unusual
0:56.4	situation. We hear their stories and get inside their head because we all want
1:02.2	to know what was that like.
1:05.0	More information about each episode at what was that like.com.
1:10.0	Here we go. Vincent lives and works in Chicago is a photojournalist. He takes a lot of
1:19.9	pictures and a lot of those pictures include crime scenes. In his line of work he's
1:25.1	used to getting the call and going to where the news is happening. But there was
1:29.7	one night when he didn't have to go anywhere. The crime scene was just outside his front door.
1:35.6	That was the night 17 year old Michael Patton was gunned down during a thunderstorm.
1:41.8	Vincent heard the shots and ran outside while his wife called 911.
1:47.0	The teenager had been shot in the chest and in the head,
1:51.0	and he died while Vincent held his hand. We talked about Vincent's perspective on
1:56.6	this experience both as a photographer and journalist and as a father. An
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