Friday, September 6, 2013

2 Month Baby Held By Father Shot in North Minneapolis

    A 2-month-old boy, struck by a stray bullet and critically injured Thursday night, is the latest in a string of incidents involving northMinneapolis children caught in crossfire. ..baby was struck about 9 p.m. while being held by his father outside a home in the 2400 block of Emerson Av. N. The father told police he heard a loud bang, looked down and saw his baby had been hit, Barrington said.
    wo separate shootings this summer that wounded two other children. Two weeks ago, a 14-month-old girl, a pregnant 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy were shot when a man approached a group of people as they stood outside a parked car, fired repeatedly and then ran. And in June, a 4-year-old boy was shot along with two adults as they sat in a car.
    Those shootings sparked anger, protests and vigils in pleas to stop the violence in a community that reeled over the death of 5-year-old Nizzel George, who was shot in the back as he slept on his grandmother’s couch in June 2012. Six months earlier, 3-year-old Terrell Mayes Jr. was shot and killed on the day after Christmas by a stray bullet that ripped through his family’s home.
    “This is a gun problem,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Don Samuels

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      A gun at 14, then a senseless killing

      • Article by: MAYA RAO and MATT MCKINNEY , Star Tribune staff writers 
      • Updated: March 19, 2013 - 4:56 PM
      Two young lives are swept away in Minneapolis by a relentless flow of illegal firearms
      a teenager named Trequan Sykes rushes from his family’s apartment after hearing there’s trouble outside.
      Waiting under the shade of pine trees, across from a church with boarded windows, is another teenager from the neighborhood, Malcolm Jackson. He clutches a .357 Magnum revolver in his trembling hand.
      Malcolm points the gun at a 17-year-old boy.
      “You ever been shot before?” he asks.
      He turns the gun to a 15-year-old girl.
      “Think I won’t kill you?”
      It seems so unreal, so jarring on this sunny Friday, that nobody runs. Trequan looks at Malcolm, two 16-year-olds on different ends of a handgun in a south Minneapolis alley. Trequan, doubting the threat, turns to leave, telling the others, “Come on.”
      Two gunshots. A bullet rips through Trequan’s back and opens a hole in his chest.
      Malcolm bolts, ghosting through a neighborhood alive with cars and people, tossing his chrome revolver on a garage rooftop.
      “It was aim and shoot,” he says later. “Just like a video game.


      Or 3-year-old Terrell Mayes Jr., killed by a stray bullet inside his home in December 2011 as he held a bowl of spaghetti for dinner.
      Or 5-year-old Nizzel George, fatally wounded while sleeping on a couch after teenage gang members settled a score by firing bullets into his house last summer.
      Since 2001, at least 116 kids have been shot dead in Minnesota. Nationwide, as many as 2,000 children and teens die a year from gun homicide — the equivalent of 100 Newtowns — the victims disproportionately young black males in beleaguered neighborhoods.

       make gun homicide the leading cause of death for black teens aged 15 to 19.
      That’s why Trequan’s family moved out of Chicago. They thought the streets of Minneapolis would be safer, that they could turn their backs on violence.

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