Another bloody weekend in Chicago began with the murder of the grandson of a U.S. House Representative, and police say it was over a dispute about gym shoes.
From the Chicago Tribune:
The 15-year-old grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis was fatally shot Friday night on the South Side in a “dispute over gym shoes,” according to police.
“It was unbelievable, unbelievable,’’ said Davis, who was reached by phone on his way to the police station to be briefed on the incident.
His grandson, Jovan Wilson, was at his home in Englewood with an uncle, his 16-year-old sister, 14-year-old brother and 8-year-old brother when two teenage assailants entered the home and began arguing with Jovan, police and Davis said. The teen’s mother had left the home to pick up food.
At some point during the argument, one of the assailants, a 15-year-old boy, pulled out a gun and shot Jovan in the head. A 17-year-old girl was the other assailant, Davis said.
Pretty awful, but the politician expressed sorrow for the guy who killed his grandson, and blamed the gun, of course.
After spending more than two hours speaking with police, Davis emerged to the station’s lobby with his son, Stacey Wilson, and vowed to continue his work to combat gun violence. He questioned where and how the 15-year-old boy, who is believed to have killed his grandson, obtained a gun.
He said he might never know the answer to those questions or if there was anything, such as better education, that could have prevented his grandson’s homicide.
“I do know that I grieve for my family,” Davis said at a news conference. “I grieve for the young man who pulled the trigger. I grieve for his family, his parents, his friends, some of whom will never see him again.”
I think the kind of depravity that would lead a 15-year-old to murder someone is not the kind that will abate when guns are banned.
And if you want to know how the rest of Chicago is doing, I got bad news:
Police: 11 shot, 2 fatally, in first 8 hours of weekend https://t.co/O20kAVggTz pic.twitter.com/nf0Io0AMby
— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) November 19, 2016
Hey, keep blaming guns instead of the perpetrators though.