Boy, 11, Fatally Shoots Teenage Burglar During Home Invasion, An 11-year-old St. Louis-area boy fatally attack a 16-year-old who entered his home during an declared home aggression Thursday, badge said.
The cutting happened on Hallwood Drive in arctic St. Louis Canton at about 2:20 p.m. bounded time (3:20 p.m. ET), badge said.
Two humans had approached the home alert afore Thursday, and on the third attack entered the abode through the foreground door, badge said. The 11-year-old who lives in the home attack the 16-year-old burglar in the head, St. Louis Canton badge said in a statement.
Police begin the attack jailbait asleep in the foyer, and a additional being who fled was bent nearby.
Police were alive to verify the additional person's character Thursday afternoon. The names of those involved, and a accessible motive in the doubtable home invasion, were not released.
Police said the 11-year-old and a 4-year-old babe who was aswell central the home were not injured. Their mother, who was not home at the time of the shooting, is allied with the investigation, badge said.
The gun belonged to the 11-year-old's mother, St. Louis Canton badge Sgt. Brian Schellman told NBC base KSDK.
"Initial statements the mother fabricated to our detectives is that she purchased it because her home has been the ambition of several burglaries over the accomplished few years, and she purchased it for self-protection," Schellman said.
Schellman said Thursday's cutting was the latest instance of a adolescent application a gun with baleful consequences. He referenced endure week's baleful blow in which a 21-month-old toddler in addition allotment of the canton begin a loaded blaster and attack himself. The adolescent after died at a hospital.
The cutting happened on Hallwood Drive in arctic St. Louis Canton at about 2:20 p.m. bounded time (3:20 p.m. ET), badge said.
Two humans had approached the home alert afore Thursday, and on the third attack entered the abode through the foreground door, badge said. The 11-year-old who lives in the home attack the 16-year-old burglar in the head, St. Louis Canton badge said in a statement.
Police begin the attack jailbait asleep in the foyer, and a additional being who fled was bent nearby.
Police were alive to verify the additional person's character Thursday afternoon. The names of those involved, and a accessible motive in the doubtable home invasion, were not released.
Police said the 11-year-old and a 4-year-old babe who was aswell central the home were not injured. Their mother, who was not home at the time of the shooting, is allied with the investigation, badge said.
The gun belonged to the 11-year-old's mother, St. Louis Canton badge Sgt. Brian Schellman told NBC base KSDK.
"Initial statements the mother fabricated to our detectives is that she purchased it because her home has been the ambition of several burglaries over the accomplished few years, and she purchased it for self-protection," Schellman said.
Schellman said Thursday's cutting was the latest instance of a adolescent application a gun with baleful consequences. He referenced endure week's baleful blow in which a 21-month-old toddler in addition allotment of the canton begin a loaded blaster and attack himself. The adolescent after died at a hospital.
Blogger Comment
Facebook Comment