What's Wrong With Kids These Days?
By fritz_hailey
@fritz_hailey (1334)
United States
December 8, 2006 11:45am CST
Police: Miss. Teen Kills Father Over Snack
McCOMB, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a disagreement over a frozen snack led a McComb teenager to fatally shoot his father and threaten his mother. Curtis McCray Jr., 16, was arrested and charged with murder last week after allegedly shooting Curtis McCray Sr. with a shotgun from about 20 feet away, the Pike County Sheriff's Department said.
Investigator David Haywood said the shooting occurred after the teen was punished for being involved in a minor wreck, and the boy became enraged when his parents returned home eating Sno-Balls and there wasn't one for him.
Read more: http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/...0214671727.htm
In case anyone feels like saying this is an isolated occurrence, may I point out that this thread is a continuation of my earlier thread "Are We Too Soft On Young Offenders?", where in the space of less than a month, I managed to post nearly 10 instances of kids gone bad and committing the most horrendous crimes. Where have we ('we' as in American society) gone wrong? Views anyone?
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