A 4-year-old boy has been hospitalized after being shot Monday evening, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said. Officers found the child with a gunshot wound around 6:48 p.m. near the 7100 block of Wallace Road in southeast Charlotte, CMPD said in a news release.
Police had responded to a 911 call for an assault with a deadly weapon near the address. The child underwent surgery Monday night, police said.
CMPD Maj. David Robinson told reporters at the scene that the boy and his mother were on their way back from a grocery store when the drive-by shooting happened.
Early Tuesday morning, CMPD Police Chief Johnny Jennings seemed to be personally taken in by this incident, tweeting:
There is a 4 year old child fighting for his life after being shot last night. It’s so hard for me to even fathom this senseless act of violence.
@CMPD will continue to do all that we can to keep our community safe but we need your help too. If you have any information related to this incident please call 704-432-TIPS to speak directly to a detective or you can leave an anonymous tip by contacting @CLTCrimeStopper
CP's Take: Sorry Charlotte but "The African American Community has become a culture of violence embracing criminality and gun play". Until we acknowledge and address this aggressively, the violence will only continue to grow and the long term cost will be staggering.
Culture is an evolving attribute, Amish didn't just one day decide to be Amish it happened over time. The African American Community in Charlotte of 40 years ago was not like this, but this culture has evolved into a lifestyle that perpetuates the violence.
16 comments:
Racist Cedar Mouth at it again. How do you even know that the victim or shooter is Black?
Ummm, because they were?
Unfortunately Cedar is right. 17 years in CMS Indy and West Meck and SMDH most days. The only think these kids want is a gun and weed. When I was their age all I wanted was a job and a car with four on the floor and 300 under the hood. Low bar that Black Youth have is shocking.
"How do you even know that the victim or shooter is Black". That's some funny shit!
The chief and majors have been fathoming this violence for 10 years at least. SMH…I am so happy that I am not in Charlotte anymore. Too dangerous!
So what your saying is black people do stupid stuff and the only people and cops that are dumb enough to work in these areas are mental cases?
I know Cedar tweets the homicide count and its somewhere north of 83 depending on who is counting. But local media treats gunshot vics like a video game as if they just jump right back up and get in the game. Most don't ever recover. Take a 40 in the leg and I promise you you'll never walk right again. Most brain injuries turn people into walking vegetables. By the media and even JJ won't talk about that.
7:17. So? You live by the sword you die by the sword. I don’t feel bad for any of these “victims”. If you work Metro you know 99% of these fools have it coming. Sad to say but the world is a better place without them
☝️Yes! F*** these people. You wanna protest us? Villianize us? Burn our buildings and defund us… ok BLM crowd. Don’t call us. Police yourselves. If you hate us. Good. Don’t be a hypocrite and call us when you need us
That count may be north of 80, which is tragic, but now that school is back in, the summer cycle that always hits of reckless youth playing with stolen guns will subside. Charlotte may not see 100 this year. The city needs an aggressive youth rec system that encompasses all of the school aged children.
Cedar what ever happened to Dee Dee Mills and the Behailu Academy? I know she ran her restaurants Mayo Bird and Pack House into the ground and the covid hit but figure Behailu would rebound. What gives?
7:18. That is bullshit. We all know we’re gonna hit 100 by November. Secondly the city doesn’t need any more social programs. As long as black households continue to be single parent, half the time being raised by grandma this shit will continue. We need fathers in the home, showing leadership and how to be a man. Our government needs to stop rewarding black women with welfare benefits to unwed mothers because it acts as an incentive for “baby mommadry” yeah just made that word up. Anyone who can think objectively can see this is the real issue. Ask yourself this, why don’t we see such crime in Asian homes or white neighborhoods?? Oh.. I know. The fathers are usually in those kids lives. They give a shit. They take care of their own and take personal responsibility of their lives. So I disagree with more of these social programs… let the fathers work and provide for their families and the women can stay in the house and raise their own damn kids.
So true. My wife works at an elementary school in the low rent district. She sees this every day. The school is essentially a day care with free meals. If the child is struggling, gets sick, or is disruptive don't bother calling baby mama or baby daddy. Either they don't respond, don't care, or assign blame to the school. These latch key kids are essentially a gubamint check and an EBT Card.
Yes, the schools are a wonderful substitute for an absent father, but wishing they were there does not bring them back. CMS is our government doing its best work, and sometimes that is filling in for a parent who is not absent. We feed them, love them, nurture them. And we keep them out of trouble.
I wish we had a year-round school system and we would not see this summer spike in stolen cars and other youthful indiscretion 'crime'.
Well again you are just confirming what everyone has said. There is no "substitute" for loving caring parents....
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