READING, Pa. — An infant has died two days after being struck in the head by a bullet fragment that came from the floor of his Pennsylvania home.
The Berks County coroner's office said 7-week-old Michael Johnson died Tuesday night.
Police said a man on the second floor of the home in Reading, about 45 miles northwest of Philadelphia, fired a gun into the floor Sunday night. A fragment passed through to the first floor, striking the baby.
The Reading Eagle identified the boy's mother as 20-year-old Ebony Sanders, and said she was with the man on the second floor when he allegedly fired the shot.
Sanders ran outside with the baby after discovering he'd been hit, screaming for help, the newspaper reported. A neighbor then drove the mother and son to Reading Hospital, but doctors there had him airlifted to Hershey Medical Center where he died Tuesday night.
Reading Police Capt. Francis Drexler told msnbc.com that investigators plan to re-interview the baby's mother, but they are allowing her time to grieve the loss of her son. Asked how investigators classify her involvement in the incident, Drexler said she's "just a witness" at this time.
Yup, just keep handing them out. Hey, here's an idea, Conk fvcks - a tax credit to be used for the purchase of a gun!!!
Collateral damage in America's war to stayed armed to the teeth. SMFH. Of course, the baby was black, so who gives a flaming fvck, anyway, right??
