At 3:30 a.m — Where were the parents?
This morning, around 3:30 a.m., police responded to a call in a Pasadena (south Houston) neighborhood about gun shots.
From the Houston Chronicle:
The shooting happened about 3:30 a.m. after police had investigated several complaints about multiple gunshots fired in the neighborhood, beginning about 1 a.m., Corbett said.
According to residents, as many as 20 to 30 shots were fired. Officers were unable to pinpoint the source of the gunfire, however, until two patrolmen went to the neighborhood and searched along a bayou that runs behind some homes.
The two officers reported that they heard gunfire coming from the front of a house and moved in that direction. Reaching the front, they saw the boy standing in the driveway, firing a pistol toward the back fence, Corbett said.
One officer, an eight-year veteran of the department whose name has not been released, drew his pistol and ordered the boy repeatedly to drop the gun, Corbett said.
Instead, the teenager turned toward him with the pistol still raised, the two officers reported.
“He didn’t turn all the way around, but he turned toward the officer and the officer responded by shooting three or four times,” Corbett said.
Two other teenagers who were present — a boy and a girl — were taken into custody. The girl kicked out a window of a patrol car after being placed inside, Corbett said.
The police did exactly what they should have done — I’d rather a gun-wielding 13-year old boy end up in the hospital than the possibility of a family-supporting cop ending up dead trying to do his job.
Of course the obvious question is, “Where the hell where the parents?”
3:30 a.m. And no body is home. Or if they were — how high on crack do you have to be not to hear 20-30 gun shots in your own driveway?
I’ll bet you dimes to nickels that the handgun was not legally registered to whomever the kid swiped it from.
And how about that sweet young girl kicking out the back window of a patrol car? Nice kids.
The sooner they’re locked up and away from society the better (for law abiding citizens).
Depressing.
Left by Preston on June 6th, 2008 at 9:40 pm