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marble falls

(57,063 posts)
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 02:49 PM Jan 2020

2 Children Shot By Driver After Throwing Snowballs At Passing Cars

2 Children Shot By Driver After Throwing Snowballs At Passing Cars

The boy and girl, ages 12 and 13, were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries, Milwaukee police said.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kids-throwing-snowballs-shot-by-driver_n_5e148bb6c5b6b5a713c0e8fa

By Nina Golgowski

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The kids were part of a group tossing snowballs at cars in Milwaukee on Saturday night when they became the targets of the violent road rage attack, police said in a series of tweets.


“It was like ‘boom, boom, boom, boom’ all in succession,” Pearlee Piggue, who heard the shooting just before 8 p.m., told local station WITI.

Milwaukee police described the shooter as driving a white Toyota. Both of the victims suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police said.

After firing into the group of children, the shooter fled the Silver Spring neighborhood in a white Toyota, police said.

A 12-year-old female and a 13-year-old male were taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police said.

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Just the way Trump would have done it, disproportionately. Only with Butthead Jr's AR-15.

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2 Children Shot By Driver After Throwing Snowballs At Passing Cars (Original Post) marble falls Jan 2020 OP
I am not going to defend resorting to gunfire, BUT.... LisaM Jan 2020 #1
But shooting a 12 and 13 year old? No need at all to do it. marble falls Jan 2020 #4
Of course not. I can't possibly defend that. LisaM Jan 2020 #5
And I just got arrested Moral Compass Jan 2020 #2
I hope they find that asshole and sdfernando Jan 2020 #3

LisaM

(27,800 posts)
1. I am not going to defend resorting to gunfire, BUT....
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 03:01 PM
Jan 2020

throwing snowballs at cars is really dangerous.

WTF is wrong with people on both sides of this???

LisaM

(27,800 posts)
5. Of course not. I can't possibly defend that.
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jan 2020

But throwing objects at moving cars can also lead to people losing their lives. It happens. So I can't understand why kids that old would do such a thing.

Moral Compass

(1,516 posts)
2. And I just got arrested
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 03:14 PM
Jan 2020

I got arrested for pegging the same car 3 times when I was 9. But no one ever opened fire on us.

This is some serious overreacting.

sdfernando

(4,929 posts)
3. I hope they find that asshole and
Tue Jan 7, 2020, 03:58 PM
Jan 2020

arrest him/her on 4 counts (or however many kids there were) of attempted MURDER!

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