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Little kid shot in Roxbury
By adamg on Sun, 04/02/2017 - 9:44pm
A boy, 5 or 6, was shot shortly around 9:30 p.m. on Copeland Street near Warren Street, by gunmen aiming at his father.
Police Commissioner William Evans said two men, both possibly 18 to 20, started firing at the boy's father from Warren Street. They got off as many as seven rounds. They missed him, but hit the child, Evans said. "Thank God, it looks to be non fatal and he's in stable condition," he said.
The parents started rushing the child to the hospital. Police caught up with them at Zeigler Street and Harrison Avenue, where he was transferred to an ambulance. Police officers cordoned off intersections so that an ambulance could speed the child to Boston Medical Center.
Exactly why the gunmen targeted the father remains under investigation, Evans said.
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Good God!
I hope the child survives. This is horrible!
Zero tolerance
When a young child gets shot, that feels like even more a wakeup call than when an innocent adult gets shot by gangsters.
It's still hard to believe that we have daily gangland shootings in a city like Boston, which seems safe for a lot of us.
It's inhumane that any Bostonian has to live in a neighborhood where they hear gunshots and have to worry about someday getting hit by a stray bullet.
Sad
But it's not unexpected, Boston is a dangerous city.
unexpected
i dont think most people in america expect a 5 year old to get shot in all honesty
or, really, even in much more dire circumstances across the globe
As usual
Fearful "be very afraid of the world" reply, but no statistics or historical context.
I first came to Boston in the early 1980s. You don't know from "dangerous", and yet I still lived my life and didn't think too much about it.
Dangerous city?
[citation needed]
Until the city works harder
Until the city works harder to break up street gangs and judges stop catch and release of repeat offenders horrific incidents like this won't stop.
Brazen crime like this happens because the perpetrators don't fear consequences. Morality and the justice system is a joke to them. They feel untouchable and shameless.
Changing that perception needs to happen.
How hard is the city working?
How hard should it work? That's a very uninformed position to hold.
Agree on one of Anon's points
City is working plenty hard.
Agree about the judges with lenient sentences. The offenders should be placed in halfway houses located in the judge's neighborhood if they're not going to jail.
The city is very quick to
The city is very quick to blame knives and guns instead of the gangs in press conferences. Blaming the tools and not the people and criminal organizations wielding them is a displacement of responsibility and not helpful.
Stopping the problem requires leadership which has the courage to admit there's a people problem and that PEOPLE need to be confronted. It's a lot harder to confront a person, especially an evil person -rather than blame an animate object which won't confront you back.
Partly I think it's because our society mostly no longer believes in evil. It's real and the devout folk listening to the clergy and going to peace rallies and whatnot aren't that ones spilling innocent blood. Knowing your damned to fire and brimstone in the afterlife used to keep people on the straight and narrow. Now everyone skips church to watch sports on the t.v. and gets a pass for being a lowlife because alls forgiven too easily.
lol what? because religious
lol what? because religious people never committed crime?
The world is less violent than it's ever been.
harsh sentencing and its impact on crime reduction
does not have the effect you are seeking btw
but dont take my word for it, look it up
Seems to me keeping people
Seems to me keeping people who unlawfully shoot or try to shoot other people locked up prevents them from doing it again. But then again I'm not an expert or nothing.
Boston seems to let these clowns out after 18 months-5 years tops to do it again and again all the time. Sometimes even wearing GPS bracelets!
Logic only works on good data
Logic working on bad data = bad conclusions.
A logical argument is not necessarily a valuable one if the logic is based on bad premises.
you're right
you aren't an expert, at all. experts have studied this very matter extensively and published their findings.
you could endeavor to educate yourself.
Daily Shootings?
If you are going to make a statement like that, please back it up with something other than your own terrified nonsense.
The shooting of a child
Is an act of cowards. Today will be a day when our elected officials band together in solidarity to condemn the violence. Oh my error, I forgot today is opening day at Fenway so all our fearless leaders will be at the ballpark with free tickets from lobbyists. Sad day when the shooting of a child becomes a one day story in this city.
Not the only gunfire in that area yesterday
Just posted about gunfire earlier Sunday that ended with a cop tackling a guy holding a loaded gun.
Any and every person who
Any and every person who knows the coward who did this and refuses to anonymously inform the police who shot a bullet into the body of an innocent child has the blood of a 5 year old on their hands. Absolutely sickening. I sincerely hope the Boston Police is able to put these cowards in jail and trace the ownership of the child-shooting-gun and lock them up as well. People who illegally sell guns to people who shoot children SHOULD BE IN JAIL. YOU ARE COWARDS. ENOUGH!