A delinquency petition against a 16-year-old boy accused in the shooting death of 15-year-old Donnie Gray Jr. has been filed by the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office.
The shooting happened on Thursday, March 16, at Prairie Apartments in South Bend.
The prosecutor also wants the teenager moved to adult court and filed a motion requesting that to happen.
The 16-year-old is charged with reckless homicide when committed by an adult, and dangerous possession of a firearm when committed by an adult.
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Ask the 16 year old parents, how he has access to a loaded firearm ? My parents didn’t allow me to have any kind of gun at that age. My mother, was aware of who I was associating with at that age. She certainly would have known if I had a firearm.
Parents?
My parents taught me to use firearms in a responsible manner…I was hunting by the age of 9. But as James Johns asked, “Parents?”
It seems obvious that One single parent would have a more difficult time both financially and discipline raising a child than two loving parents The statistics I could find from 1960 was 4.4 percent of all households single parents Now , sadly 64 percent of young black children have just one parent doing the very difficult job of raising a well rounded respectful child. Many children are being raised by older grandparents. Here are some statistics
Black and American Indian kids are most likely to live in a single-parent families (64% of Black children and 52% of American Indian children fit this demographic).
White and Asian and Pacific Islander kids are least likely to live in a single-parent household (24% of white children and 15% of Asian and Pacific Islander children fit this demographic).
Latino children and children who identify as two or more races fall somewhere in the middle — with 40% of kids from these groups living in a single-parent family.
Family nativity makes a difference: 38% of kids in U.S.-born families live in a single-parent household compared to just 24% of kids in immigrant families.
This is what happens when the government plays Daddy.
How to raise a child, how to pay for it, who will care for it, all those questions are no longer considered. The mentality now is “if you want a kid, have one” and lots of single moms did just that. Why worry when the tax collector just writes you a check instead?