What is going on in the news this week? An enraged Highland Park, Michigan father is accused of killing his son – execution style as he begged for his life after learning the teen may have sexually abused his 3 year old half sister.
Jamar Pinkney Sr., 37, irate over hearing his 15-year-old son Jamar Pinkney Jr. had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said. Tensions were high in the courtroom Wednesday as the handcuffed suspect was led into the room for the arraignment, which lasted less than a minute. “No, No, No,” one female relative cried before a police officer escorted her out.
“This is something that’s hard to deal with for all the parties concerned, including the police,” police Chief Ted Caldwell said afterward.
The shooting happened Monday night in a vacant lot in the once-prosperous city of 16,000, where decay, abandonment, fires and demolition have eaten away at many of the sprawling homes. Visitors built an impromptu memorial at the shooting site. Two votive candles sat amid 10 stuffed animals, including two white teddy bears with red hearts embroidered with, “I love you.”
The boy’s mother, Lazette Cherry, told the Detroit Free Press that her son told her he had improper sexual contact with the girl.
“I called and told his father. This isn’t something you sweep under the rug,” she said. Cherry said the elder Pinkney arrived at the home with a gun, ordered his son to strip and marched him outside despite her protests. “He got on his knees and begged, `No, Daddy, No,’ and he pulled the trigger,” Cherry said.
Michigan authorities has filed a first-degree murder charge Wednesday against Pinkney Sr. in his son’s shooting death Monday.Defense attorney Corbett O’Meara said prosecutors should consider evidence of the father’s state of mind over the sex abuse report. “If something were to happen that would cause a reasonable person to lose control of himself, that is something the prosecution would have to take into account,” O’Meara said outside Highland Park District Court.
I don’t even know where to start with this story, I would like to think there was some sort of chemical imbalance which would cause this man to shoot his teenage son because I can’t seem to understand what would compel a man to execute a child. I am in no way excuse the allegations against the teenage boy, but were way too many options whether than shooting the child.
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If there was a chemical imbalance with the father, then there may have been one with the teenage boy also. Sexual molestation is a horrendous act and children are taught this is wrong right from the get-go.
What went on that child’s mind to do that could have been the result of bad parenting and lack of awareness but there was a remorse to it as well because the teenager let someone else know about it.
The fact that the father shot his own flesh and blood is sad but I think maybe his thoughts were for the daughter:
“How can this family move past this when I have to raise my firstborn son and then see my baby girl grow up as well, knowing he violated her?”
Had the shooting not happened, how would they ever be a real family again?
what is the world coming to? that’s all i have to say.