While media outlets often depict scared suspects as thugs and menacing figures, those who know Antwon Rose have come forward to paint a clearer picture of the young man.

He once worked at a children’s gymnastics and fitness center in Pittsburgh for a summer. The owner of the center, Kimberly Eads Ransom,wrote on Facebook about Rose’s passion and professionalism on the job. Ransom said the photo of him smiling next to a little girl, that has been circulating all over Facebook, was taken in her gym when he worked there.

“He was fantastic and I have nothing but great things to say about him,” she wrote. “He showed up in a 3 piece suit to his job interview in the middle of July heat in a gym. We loved him. The kids loved him. He was valued and we won’t forget him.”

“I am committed to just singing his praises as far as his character when I worked with him,” she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “He was just an absolute dream to work with at the gym. All of the kids loved him. The parents loved him. There was just nothing more I could have asked from him.”

Gisele Barreto Fetterman, who runs several charities in the Pittsburgh area and whose husband, John Fetterman, is the mayor of Braddock, wrote on Facebook that Rose volunteered for her and worked at Freestore15104, which helps provide goods to people in need

Duquense Mayor Nickole Nesby wrote on Facebook, “He volunteered for me as well. He prepared excel spreadsheets and scheduled for our Movies in the Park on Friday’s. My heart is broken.”

She said he recently got his license and was already thinking of ways to use it to help others. Nesby said she expected to see him last week to help plan a showing of Black Panther for local kids, but he couldn’t make it because his mother’s car was in the shop


In addition to being incredibly civic minded at such a young age, superintendent Al Johnson told the New York Times that Rose, “was an excellent student,” who had been taking Advanced Placement classes.



,,,,real trash, that one ...

How did they paint the guns into the picture of this saint? The magazine was in his pocket so do say they weren't his.

like I thought, wouldnt matter what the answers were ... I thought working was the magic answer, yet he was working, and taking AP classes, not the typical image of someone just being a 'thug'

as far as what was in his pocket...

an empty clip but no gun, I dont know why that was there. I do know it was not a threat and was in his pocket and the cop shot him in the BACK ...

Do you know what a thug is?

a violent person

do you know what bourgeois is?

How many people should he be allowed to shoot before he suffers consequences? We should just let these thugs come to the police station and turn themselves in after their run.

well, he first should be PROVEN to have shot someone and be a 'thug'

and then, he should suffer the 'consequence' decided upon by a trial, jury, and judge ...

not one trigger happy newby with a weapon.

we let mass murderers and shooters turn themself in for trial, why not 'thugs'?