Posted on 07/27/2023 10:58:30 AM PDT by Morgana
A five-year-old boy high on cocaine shot his toddler brother in the head, and prosecutors have charged their parents with neglect.
The boy, who has not been named, shot and killed his little brother, Isiah Johnson - who had marijuana in his system - back in March at the family's home in Lafayette, Indiana.
Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, have been charged with neglect and various drug charges after cops swooped on their property.
Prosecutors say little Isiah, 16 months, died from a gunshot wound to the head and had marijuana in his blood, while his older brother, who shot him, tested positive for cocaine.
Johnson was asleep inside the apartment at the time of the shooting. Welsh, a nursing graduate, was not present during the incident, according to authorities.
Initially, Johnson told police Isiah fell or was injured by his brother and denied owning a gun.
He claimed Isiah had not been shot before admitting the children's mother, Welch, had a gun on the property.
Welch confirmed she owned the gun but told police that she usually kept it locked in a box under her bed but had lost a second set of keys to it.
Police found a gun in the safe under a bed but also found a gun in the drawer of a dresser on the property.
Johnson also faces a charge of obstruction of justice for removing marijuana from the apartment before police arrived after the shooting.
Surveillance footage caught him placing a bag into a car after the shooting - police searched the vehicle and found marijuana.
Officers also found 93 fentanyl pills, marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the apartment when they searched it after the horror.
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Rotten culture. Rotten people.
This is a headline I thought I would never read.
Kudos Clown World.
That should be murder, imo. They set these kids on the path of destruction from the time of their birth.
Don’t you dare say these people weren’t Amish!
Leave them alone. It is their Culture.
Shatia
SHATia
No need to look.
“Neglect”? They should be charged with manslaughter at the minimum!
Simian…
https://www.insidenova.com/mugshot-simian-simmons/image_d6fc4686-0074-11e4-8d3c-0019bb2963f4.html
Our society is a joke!
This reads like rediculous and fictitious satire.
A 5 year old on coke and a 1.5 year old on marijuana????
All cultures are equal.
I’m also speechless, Morgana.
Hi.
I was very sceptical about the headline until I read the names of the parents/perps.
5.56mm
I know how you feel. One less of the People Who Built America!
All cultures are equal! /s
I pray for the 5 year old - what a long road he’s about to embark on. I hope he gets adoptive parents who will do nothing but love him. I hope his real parents rot in Hell.
"They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."
Deonta Jermaine ... and Shatia Tiara ................
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