Posted on 07/27/2023 10:58:30 AM PDT by Morgana
A five-year-old boy high on cocaine shot his toddler brother in the head, and prosecutors have charged their parents with neglect.
The boy, who has not been named, shot and killed his little brother, Isiah Johnson - who had marijuana in his system - back in March at the family's home in Lafayette, Indiana.
Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, have been charged with neglect and various drug charges after cops swooped on their property.
Prosecutors say little Isiah, 16 months, died from a gunshot wound to the head and had marijuana in his blood, while his older brother, who shot him, tested positive for cocaine.
Johnson was asleep inside the apartment at the time of the shooting. Welsh, a nursing graduate, was not present during the incident, according to authorities.
Initially, Johnson told police Isiah fell or was injured by his brother and denied owning a gun.
He claimed Isiah had not been shot before admitting the children's mother, Welch, had a gun on the property.
Welch confirmed she owned the gun but told police that she usually kept it locked in a box under her bed but had lost a second set of keys to it.
Police found a gun in the safe under a bed but also found a gun in the drawer of a dresser on the property.
Johnson also faces a charge of obstruction of justice for removing marijuana from the apartment before police arrived after the shooting.
Surveillance footage caught him placing a bag into a car after the shooting - police searched the vehicle and found marijuana.
Officers also found 93 fentanyl pills, marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the apartment when they searched it after the horror.
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No need to look.
A two parent home? They seem nice.
Sad for the children.
Deonta...
Adios to that sticky Stinky weed Brudda.
A local woman here was arrested last week for killing her infant with a fentanyl dose she thought was cocaine..... to make him sleep................
Sad story—it’s a gross mis-characterization on the part of the reporter to refer to the 2 breeders as “parents.”
Probly her boyfren.
Given how CFS departments drop the ball, I wouldn’t necessarily guarantee they’ll do the right thing here. Gabriel Fernandez agrees from Heaven.
A five year old finds a gun and somehow, while playing with it, gets off a head kill shot. Not a wall or a floor or a chair or a window - a tiny head.
“This is a headline I thought I would never read.”
This is a headline I thought I would never post but I just did.
yup, this is the result of a society that deems it worthy to legalize pot houses and hand out needles to the street addicts. How’s that working out America?
Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better
Watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
And you know that notion
Just crossed my mind
And when they get their Reparations Checks these problems won’t go away. Money won’t cure the moral, cultural and ethical rot that is in some communities. It will make it worse. Much worse.
They, like everyone else, need to face challenges and to go out and work, earning money by “the sweat of their brow” as was intended for all humans.
Given how CFS departments drop the ball, I wouldn’t necessarily guarantee they’ll do the right thing here. Gabriel Fernandez agrees from Heaven.
“Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24”
All I needed to read
Don Zaluchi. The Godfather.
No need to look....just look at their NAMES!! GHETTO NAMES!
And to think I never did coke while toting a gun when I was 5.
I missed out…F’ing Kermit…
Ferals - what you’d expect.
Oh my, more lives not mattering even at that early of an age.
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