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Boy, 8, injured in St. Louis shooting
An 8-year-old boy was shot in the back Monday night as he was riding in a car near the intersection of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street, police said.
A bullet also grazed the boy’s 31-year-old father, who was driving the car.
Police say it appears that boy’s father was the intended target.
The shots were fired from an assailant in a passing car at about 6:40 p.m. Monday as the father and son drove south in the 2900 block of Spring Avenue. The father drove to the 3800 block of Enright Avenue to report the shooting and get medical care for his son.
What they don’t tell you here is what is on the 3800 block of Enright that the boy’s father was so interested in. Turns out it was St. Louis City’s juvenile hall. Someone there called for an ambulance to take the boy to the ER at Children’s, which is where the father should have driven the boy in the first place.
Psychologists tell us that a human mind reveals its true nature in times of crisis. What is interesting to me here is that in a time of obvious crisis, his son getting shot, this father’s mind immediately defaults to the St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center. Why? Did the boy ever spend time there? Or rather, and more likely, did he ever spend time there? Since he was the target of the shooting, this means he’s probably in some sort of racket himself, gang or otherwise and therefore he probably has been for quite a long time. I’m guessing he did a couple of tours in the 3800 block of Enright before the law considered him to be grown up enough for him to start doing time Downtown.
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