17-year-old anti-gun violence advocate shot while sleeping

[WhiteTara]

http://www.wbrc.com/story/38711014/17-year-old-anti-gun-violence-advocate-shot-while-sleeping

Talking with Keiah Shauku, you can hear not only the pride she has for her eldest child and only son, but also the respect she has for 17-year-old Zo Shauku.

"Thoughtful, loves to learn, he would self-describe as a nerd," Shauku says when describing his personality.

From working with kids at coding camp to volunteering at the library and participating in youth leadership forums, she says Zo loves to serve. Following the shooting in Parkland, Florida, he joined with other young people to start Iron City Generation Now which focuses on combating gun violence.

"The young people said, 'Okay, grownups, you're not doing it. You're not taking it seriously. And since you are not taking this seriously like we are, we're going to set about to do something'," Keiah Shauku says.

So she found it unbelievable when she learned Zo had been shot early Friday morning while sleeping in his own bed in the 4200 block of Lloyd Noland Parkway in Fairfield.

"Had he not sat up, Zo would not be here because it would have hit him in his head," Shauku explains.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R

[denbot]

2. "His neighbors were having a gunfight"

So... was anyone arrested, or is a gunfight now looked upon like a game of jenga?!?!

[Crunchy Frog]

3. It was just one of those "tragic accidents". n/t