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“What’s funny?” yells victim’s mother in court at smiling teen accused of killing her 3-year-old so
Fox News ^ | 05/04/18 | CNN Wire Service

Posted on 05/05/2018 11:28:21 AM PDT by Simon Green

Deputies had to restrain the mother of a 3-year-old boy Friday when the 15-year-old boy accused of killing him appeared to smirk while waiting for his bond hearing to start.

“What’s funny? What’s funny?” yelled Roshanda Craig, as deputies rushed to separate members of the victim’s family and the defendant’s family.

Christopher Cullins, 15, an eighth grade student at Sylvan Hills Middle School, was arrested at his school 10 days after the April 1 shooting that claimed the life of 3-year-old T’Rhigi Craig. Cullins is charged as an adult with murder.

The little boy was asleep in the backseat of his mother’s SUV when he was struck by a bullet meant for someone else, police said.

According to detectives, it all started when some people in cars drove past a gas station at the intersection of Bouldercrest and Eastland roads and fired paintball guns at customers.

Cullins and his family happened to be at the gas station. Cullins, furious about being struck by a paintball, grabbed his cousin’s gun, according to police, and fired at least one shot toward the cars where the paintball fire originated. The bullet missed the people who fired the paintball guns and instead struck the boy, killing him.


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To: Clutch Martin

I would say he flunked out twice. Twice in 8 years is quite a feat.


41 posted on 05/05/2018 2:37:14 PM PDT by sheana
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To: thanatz

I would hate to have a child of mine killed because I ended up in the cross fire of a punk with a gun


42 posted on 05/05/2018 2:39:51 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Simon Green

Good that he’s being tried as an adult.


43 posted on 05/05/2018 3:56:52 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: americas.best.days...

Well, obviously you didn’t read the article, or if you did, you have absolutely no reading comprehension skills. Anyway you choose to look at it, that was a truly racist remark you made. Comments like yours continue to provide ammo for FR detractors and, once again, will make potential contributors hesitate.


44 posted on 05/05/2018 4:19:23 PM PDT by sageburn
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To: americas.best.days...

“”T’Rhigi””

Have to admit - that’s unique. Kind of like the girl with the dash in her name and insisting to a teacher or someone that her name was pronounced xxxxdashxxxxx.....Tell that to a future employer but on second thought, it’s so common, no one will blink!


45 posted on 05/05/2018 4:45:46 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SaveFerris

“”[Christopher Cullins, 15, an eighth grade student]
Let that sink in for a moment.””

I did and then thought - at least he was in school unlike a lot of T H E M!!!!!


46 posted on 05/05/2018 4:47:03 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SaveFerris

I dare say that a lot of us would have also if our 18th birthday had been AFTER graduation instead of BEFORE. I could have been 17 if graduation had been a month earlier - but I couldn’t get the school to agree to changing the date.


47 posted on 05/05/2018 4:55:32 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: NativeSon

No, no one was shooting paintballs from a car with a child in the back seat - but it’s not clear from the article just where the car was that DID have the child in it...

“”Cullins and his family happened to be at the gas station. Cullins, furious about being struck by a paintball, grabbed his cousin’s gun, according to police, and fired at least one shot toward the cars where the paintball fire originated””


48 posted on 05/05/2018 4:59:15 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: sheana
I graduated high school at 17

I was in graduate school at 20. (yes, I think my mother wanted me out of school at an early age LOL)

49 posted on 05/05/2018 5:35:23 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: sageburn

Well, I disagree.

I did read the article. The toddler T’Rhigi caught a stray bullet because, through no fault of his own found himself amongst violent people.

The shooter, Christopher, would have been basically a kindergartner when Obama was elected, as a point of reference. Not too long ago, he was a little kid too. That was my point. And like some here, I didn’t refer to Christopher as a POS, human garbage, needing killing etc. The players in this incident could have all been of any race and my comment would stand.

Where did you see racism?


50 posted on 05/05/2018 5:53:07 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: heartwood

“”And a lot of eighth graders are 14 in the spring, as was I and three of my children.””

It’s like I posted previously - if our birthdays hadn’t occurred before graduation, we would have been 17 also...I don’t get why some here think there’s something wrong with someone who didn’t graduate at 17...they can’t see it depended on when their BIRTH DATE was?


51 posted on 05/05/2018 5:59:44 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Scrambler Bob

I bow to your superior Mathematics!!!!


52 posted on 05/05/2018 6:03:46 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Clutch Martin

“15 in 8th grade equates to flunking out once.”

or twice


53 posted on 05/05/2018 6:26:13 PM PDT by Reynoldo
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To: Simon Green
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54 posted on 05/05/2018 6:51:01 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: Tawiskaro
Well, this certainly went to the wrong thread.


55 posted on 05/05/2018 6:53:14 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: Simon Green

“T’Rhigi Craig”

Another Atlanta resident of Scottish extraction, I suppose?


56 posted on 05/06/2018 2:24:03 AM PDT by tom h
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To: Simon Green
"... he was struck by a bullet meant for someone else, police said."

"A report by the organization, "The Price of Prisons," states that the cost of incarcerating one inmate in Fiscal 2010 was $31,307 per year. "In states like Connecticut, Washington state, New York, it's anywhere from $50,000 to $60,000," he said.

Yes - $60,000 a year. That's a teacher's salary, or a firefighter's. Our epidemic of incarceration costs us taxpayers $63.4 billion a year.

Something is terribly wrong here...beginning at birth.

57 posted on 05/06/2018 9:14:08 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Thank You Rush

The article was written in such a way as to allow for that/my interpretation.


58 posted on 05/06/2018 4:04:29 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Nifster

Thanks for the clarification. Over the past few years I’ve been finding it more difficult to get the point or the salient points from news articles.


59 posted on 05/06/2018 4:08:23 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: NativeSon

Agreed

This has been a big local story. Has begun to get the community outraged. Too many innocent bystanders getting killed

That’s what helped turn people against the magic in the thirties


60 posted on 05/06/2018 4:10:23 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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