Posted on 07/25/2023 8:00:16 PM PDT by Drew68
CHICAGO -- A 10-year-old boy fired a shot at Chicago police officers during a standoff with officers called to the scene after the youth opened fire inside a home, police said.
No one was injured in Monday's shooting and the boy was taken to a hospital for observation, police said.
Officers responded to a home in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood about 11:20 a.m. after learning the boy had fired shots inside the residence and was experiencing “mental distress,” police said in a statement.
Chicago Police Deputy Chief Migdalia Bulnes told reporters at the scene that the boy stepped out onto a porch, pointed a gun at the officers and at his own head before he fired a single gunshot, sending officers ducking for cover.
Bulnes said officers tried to de-escalate the situation by firing bean bag rounds at the home without striking the boy, but “it was too quick for them to bring a negotiator out." She said the boy went back inside the house before returning to the porch and pointing the gun at his head again.
Officers then fired a chemical at the porch, scaring the boy, who threw the gun down and was detained without incident and taken to a hospital for observation, Bulnes said.
She said that for officers the incident "really puts your training into perspective.”
“It’s a little bit more delicate because he’s 10 years old, and he’s in distress. And we know that. He’s a child, so that’s what’s in our mind when we have discussions of what’s the next step," Bulnes said.
The boy’s grandfather, Thurston Daniels, told the Chicago Sun-Times that the youngster had lashed out when his mother asked him to clean up around the house and he grabbed a gun from her purse...
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“He’s just a typical bad boy,” Daniels said.
Yeah, typical youthful high jinks. Who among us didn't shoot at cops when we were 10 year old?
In the Daly days he would have had more holes that a slice of Swiss cheese.
the youngster had lashed out when his mother asked him to clean up around the house and he grabbed a gun from her purse.
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Well! Who can blame him then?
If I had tried that kind of stunt when I was a kid, my backside would’ve been on fire for a week!
If he had a father in the house he would have been taken to the wood shed.
The mom should be charged for recklessness. That gun should have been nowhere near a child. It’s utterly insane that a weapon can be just grabbed by a brat with a messy room.
“Yo Mama be a crack ho!”
That’s where the Daleys used to live...in Beverly! It used to be a nice neighborhood. I wonder if the populace, there, has changed.
He should have been shot dead. Otherwise, if we are to follow him over the next few years we will see he will kill someone and likely be dead before 18. Put him down now.
“...and his Mama cries.”
The projects of Chicago. You need at gun at a quick ready to protect yourself from the offspring that your and your community created.
The Daleys lived in Bridgeport. The good Daley, old man Richard J. raised the family at 35th & Lowe, and died while still residing there. The rat, his son Richard M. moved to a townhouse in the South Loop area, then after his wife died he moved to the Gold Coast. I don’t know where the other son John moved to.
Beverly is still a nice neighborhood, expensive, beautiful old homes, the criminal element has always been nearby.
I remember 1969.
I was playing baseball and enjoying Fanta Strawberry pop on hot days.
And that song was always on the radio.
[Chicago boy, 10, fires shot at police officers called to scene after youth opens fire inside a home]
Today’s award for Awkward Headline goes to ABC News!!!
Or he could end up on FR as a rabid DeSantis 2032 supporter.
Better than being someone who disrespects military veterans.
I wonder where on the Gold Coast Richie moved to/which building. I knew them all quite well.
I only disrespect military veterans who believe that all Presidents should have served in the military, and those that lie to their constituents.
Yeah but the baby mamma doesn’t know who the daddy is
You are one of the most disrespectful anti-veterans that I’ve encountered on FR. And for someone who admittedly never served, that makes your attitude and disrespect even worse. Say no more to me. STOP.
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