[Kid Shelleen]

I hope none of the border children are getting dumped in Detroit.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Poor kid. RIP.

[fatnotlazy]

The border kids should feel right at home.

[ansel12]

“Gunned down”? I notice the left are all adopting “gunfire” as the new word for someone being shot.

In this case a stray bullet him while he was asleep in bed, but I wouldn’t describe it as being “gunned down”.

[UCANSEE2]

Where are these guys ?

[Greysard]

It's a very confusing article. One boy, of unknown age, is found in the street, bleeding. Another, unnamed boy was hit in his bed and died an hour (or is it 45 minutes?) later. There is little to suggest that both are the same boy who, after being shot, managed to get out of the house - especially because Jakari died in 45 mniutes, and the other, unnamed boy - in 1 hour.

All this could have been fixed with a simple leading sentence: "At the Brewster-Douglass housing projects on Detroit’s east side, at approximately 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, Jakari Pearson and his mother were struck by gunfire. Jakari, a 8-year-old boy, died from his wounds."

Instead the journalist starts with pure speculation: "Stray bullets blasted through the wall..." - how would the journalist know that the bullets were stray, and not carefully aimed? On the other hand, she could have started the article with "It was a dark and stormy night."