[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."

[Steven Scharf]

Found a better source of info at the Detroit Free Press. Apparently the article used cited anther soucred which cited the Detroit News and the Detriot Free Press.

The mother apprently carried the boy out of the house to take him to the hospital but only got as far as the driverway.

Some of the story does not make sense. Boyfriend is a paerson of interest, but shots were fire to a second story bedroom and through a brick wall. I did not know of bullets that could cleanly go through brick walls.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014307300104