Posted on 08/16/2006 10:11:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, WI (AP) -- A 12-year-old girl has been charged in children's court for allegedly shooting her 13-year-old ex-boyfriend in the head and killing him.
The girl is charged with homicide by negligent use of a firearm and possession of a dangerous weapon.
After a hearing Tuesday in Milwaukee County Children's Court, the children's mothers embraced.
"I am so sorry, so sorry," the girl's mother said, her arms outstretched to face Romell D. Clayton's mother.
Court Commissioner Julia Vosper was told that the girl is an honor student who has never been in trouble and the families had known each other for years.
Clayton's mother did not want the girl locked up and called Sunday's shooting "a tragic accident," the judge was told.
According to court records, the girl told police that she and Clayton had recently broken up. He came to her house Saturday at about 11:30 p.m., climbed up to her second-story window and handed her the black Ruger 9mm handgun as he climbed into the house, court records said.
She said that two days earlier, Clayton's older brother had been carrying the gun in the pocket of his hooded sweat shirt and told her it was "for protection on the street," according to court records.
Clayton told her he was having problems at home and had run away. In the morning, the girl said, Clayton began to play with the ammunition clip before putting the gun down.
The girl said they were facing each other, talking and kidding when she picked the gun up. She aimed at the boy's head just a couple inches away. The girl said she told Clayton she had taken the clip out and that there "ain't no bullets in it," according to court records.
She then allegedly pulled the trigger.
The court commissioner allowed the girl to go home with her mother under a 24-hour curfew, with permission to leave the house only for school.
"I am struck by the idea that these kids spent most of the morning playing with this gun," said Joy Hammond, an assistant district attorney. "That is scary."
The victim's 14-year-old brother was charged Tuesday with possessing the same gun several days before the shooting.
Dang. Killing and having an Ex at 12.
Yep. My first though was that if this Socialist Hellhole needs to ban something (besides legal guns for the few remaining law-abiders in the city) it should be banning 12 year old girls from having gun-totin' "boyfriends" in the first place. *Rolleyes*
Still, a sad and stupid situation.
I remember when I had a 12-year-old girlfriend. I often climbed into her second-story window at 11:30 PM and handed her my gun. Sigh. Good Times.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a rather expensive gun? And just how did this kid originally get this gun?
Messing with her Hello Kitty stickers? He should have known that would mean instant death.
Very sad. So, are you saying I shouldn't move to Socialist WI? :)
She then allegedly pulled the trigger...
This would make the victim 'allegedly dead', I guess
Sad, as it does sound like a stupid accident. Kids clowning around with something that is not to be played with like a toy.
To bad these kids never had a course at the range in gun safety.
why do I find this hard to believe.
What type of pistol was it? Did the hammer have to be pulled back? Did she have to pull the slide back?
It seems she had to do some sort of affirmative step before pulling the trigger.
Somebody got some 'splaining to do.
Anyone else notice that all these horrific kid-on-kid crimes occur in Deep Blue cities that spend $18,000/year on each school kid and that went 80% for Kerry in 2004?
What the heck? Then what was the gun doing in his younger brother's hands?
no wonder the boy's parents aren't screaming for this girl's punishment....
ALL THE PARENTS ARE TO BLAME!
ALL OF THEM!
The public school can pass out Birth Control but not a course at the range on gun safety.
Most of Wisconsin isn't really socialist. Just Madison and Milwaukee. Unfortunately, the two areas with the most voters, also.
~snicker!~ But of course it ain't funny. They knew darn well what the thing could do, still they played with it. The only way it could be worse is if she's pregnant.
The gun "belonged to" his 14 year old brothers! Unreal, Hey?
"The victim's 14-year-old brother was charged Tuesday with possessing the same gun several days before the shooting."
He not only climbed in her window at 11:30 p.m., he stayed the night. The shooting took place in the morning.
It's probably a good thing he was taken out of the gene pool. Now, if only that pre-teen skank could be, too.
You'll be fine if you stay out of Dane & Milwaukee Counties. The rest of us are quite normal, LOL!
Dad moved us out of inner-city Milwaukee in 1970. I thank him quite often. :)
The parents also needed to take a course called "where is my child sleeping tonight, and where is my gun". If it was the parents gun, anyways.
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