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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Should have kept the drugs locked up. Do we know if the gun legal?
The entire article is one stereotype confirmation after the next. Mom away at work, layabout man at home neglecting the kids who are high on drugs, different last names, guns stashed away, drugs stashed away, “dindoo nuffin!” and on and on.
Probably released the same day on little or no bail.
From the article:
Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24 [...]
Probably NOT both the parents.
The two children may have been from two different fathers. And "Deonta Jermaine" might merely be the mother's "new boyfriend."
Regards,
Because everyone knows that cocaine is a sedative...
/sarcasm
Regards,
And some want you to believe that white supremacists, DJT and Putin are the biggest threat to our society.
Damn Irish
Well there was a chance that the mom was a trashy, drug addicted white woman so I did have to look.
Murder.
How else was the guy going to quiet them down so he could take a nap?
The 5 year old is probably doomed to a life of being mentally damaged and drugged. He was probably high on cocaine in the womb. Foetal drug syndrome is not a recognized category, I think, like foetal alcohol syndrome but it is just as real. I see it in kids and youths a lot.
More than once I have seen reference to drugs being passed to a nursing infant, especially fentanyl now. The prominence of Fentanyl might be due to the near ubiquity of it.
wait now, so these kids won’t be the ones to grow up and cure cancer, like i always read about on FR??
Modern times when states legalize marijuana and other drugs nothing good can become of it.
It’s exactly who you think it is.
Indeed.
My thoughts exactly.
But some are more equal than others.
Those books were supposed to be a warning, not a plan…
**Welsh, a nursing graduate***
I would hate to have HER as my nurse in a hospital!
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