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.
I would say he flunked out twice. Twice in 8 years is quite a feat.
I would hate to have a child of mine killed because I ended up in the cross fire of a punk with a gun
Good that he’s being tried as an adult.
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.
“”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!
“”[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!!!!!
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.
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””
I was in graduate school at 20. (yes, I think my mother wanted me out of school at an early age LOL)
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?
“”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?
I bow to your superior Mathematics!!!!
“15 in 8th grade equates to flunking out once.”
or twice
“T’Rhigi Craig”
Another Atlanta resident of Scottish extraction, I suppose?
"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.
The article was written in such a way as to allow for that/my interpretation.
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.
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
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