[BBell]

Read the article. Well liked, love able, Wanted to go to college, the usual.

I feel for the Mother but her 14 year old was out very late on a school night and driving a stolen car. I don't know why he and his buddy ran from the cops, they did not face too much trouble being minors and all. They would have been released to their parents and at most would probably get probation.

[poinq]

One: these pictures are old, this kid is not 15. Two: the mother is so sure the kid would not jump in the river. But he would steel a car and run from police?

It seems like the mother is covering her butt and her sons. However, we know he steels cars, joy rides until very late into the early morning. He evades police at a high rate of speed. He destroys the car he steels. Then he runs from the cops on foot. Ok, but we are so sure he would not jump in the water? I think the mother has no idea what her son is capable of.

[Revel]

Mama needs to watch this video from an African American LEO who grew up in the hood:

“I realized I was lied to!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4prFlVV-t0

[Midwesterner53]

Probably was desperate to get to church choir practice. Anyway, no more crime from him.

[Delta 21]

Life's a Royal Bitch when you are stupid and steal things and run from the cops and refuse to stop for the cops and crash your stolen car then jump your stupid ass of into the Mississippi river.

BOY. You waz acting stupid. and thats just what you get when you act that way.

[leaning conservative]

Bad parenting all the way around. I also don’t believe that he knew how to swim.

[Reynoldo]

Mamma’s monthly free money payments might go down now.

[golux]

Well, baby, start by giving a kid like "Ja'Sean'" a decent American name, like JASON. He's been here for a few generations, right? Our families' old Hebrew names wouldn't mean much to Americans, and that's why we don't use them around here. We are AMERICANS. You want to combat "feelings of isolation?" Let your progeny ASSIMILATE. How about focusing on INTEGRATION and AMERICAN PRIDE instead of ISOLATION and HATRED? (Or maybe I'm just an old loon.)

[jughandle]

Cute pictures of when he was young. Dare we ask for anything recent?

[i_robot73]

Why aren’t the parent(s) [too much to ask for the plural, in most cases] NOT charged w/ neglect?

‘Discipline’\rap-sheet (a mile long) and didn’t know the windows/front door could be locked?

Why do we no longer hold the parent(s)\guardian(s) responsible? Would that not nip a lot of this crap in the bud (when mom/dad have to start writing out CHECKS [fines\fees\court costs...])

[Trillian]

"Something went wrong on that bridge and ... we want answers," said his mother, Sonya Williams.

Her 14 year old out at 1am stealing a car. Did she find anything wrong about that?