A one-year-old boy was shot dead in his pushchair as he was out with his parents early today.
The child, 16-month-old Antiq Hennis, was hit by a bullet to the head after a gunman unleashed a volley of shots on a Brooklyn street.
New York, of course, has one of the toughest gun control schemes in the States. Works well, eh?
Detectives were investigating claims that the boy’s father Anthony was the intended target and he escaped the attack by fleeing.
Witnesses said he returned to the scene at the corner of Bristol Street and Livonia Avenue in Brownsville minutes later to find his child lying in a pool of blood.
What an absolute prince of a man! Truly, prime breeding stock there.
Local lawyer Tony Herbert, referring to police claims that the father of the boy was the intended target, said the gunman should give himself up as he was being hunted down by every policeman in New York.
"Whether this was a beef over something in the past, what should've been done is that individual who was targeted should've been given a pass because he had his child with him” he added.
Ah. I suppose the notion that maybe people shouldn’t shoot each other over a ‘beef’ might seem a little too quaint?
"Anthony Hennis has a record of more than 20 arrests in New York and Pennsylvania for narcotics, weapons possession, assault and car theft"
ReplyDeleteGuess what colour he is?
no need to guess,
ReplyDeletea son called "Antiq"?
says it all.
"I suppose the notion that maybe people shouldn’t shoot each other over a ‘beef’ might seem a little too quaint?"
ReplyDeleteOr if they must, at least arrange it by pistols at dawn.
@ Anonymous
ReplyDelete'Antiq' is another 'get in the headlines' name.
@Rightwinggit
What you say is true, and it's also true that it's more prevalent amongst the more vibrant members of the community.
We can hardly take the moral high ground though, having failed spectacularly to discipline our indigenous people.
It is for this reason that I admire the Japanese so much. They get up to all sorts of mischief - but only up to a point.
Still, if the stress of this shaved just one picosecond off that hard piece of pus that emerges from behind a blackhead Bloomberg's life, little Antique's life will not have been shed entirely in vain.
And in Robert Hennis, the USA might have the answer to Usain Bolt.
"Guess what colour he is?"
ReplyDeleteThere were no pictures, but I can assay a pretty good guess from the names, the US not yet having gone down the #chavnames route..
"Or if they must, at least arrange it by pistols at dawn."
So much more civilised...
"And in Robert Hennis, the USA might have the answer to Usain Bolt."
LOL!