Posted on 08/23/2009 6:23:12 AM PDT by raybbr
A 17-year-old boy stabbed his mother, uncle and younger brother with a butcher knife Friday night in their Hartford home, then barricaded himself in a bedroom until a police officer talked him into sliding the knife under the door and surrendering, police said.
All of the victims survived the attacks at their home, a two-family house at 47 Yale St., off Fairfield Avenue in the city's South End, police said.
The 13-year-old brother's lungs were pierced by two stab wounds to the back, and he was in stable condition later at Hartford Hospital, police Sgt. Sean Spell said Saturday. The two adults' stab wounds, mostly on their arms, were not life-threatening, police said.
The name of the suspect and of the wounded were not released Saturday.
The suspect was charged with first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault, and was being held at an unidentified psychiatric unit for an appearance in Superior Court in Hartford Monday, Spell said.
Spell was among a number of officers called in at about 9:50 p.m. When police arrived, the three victims were lying on the lawn along with an elderly relative with chest pains, apparently from anxiety. The 17-year-old had shut himself in a second-floor bedroom, and blocked the door by pushing a large bureau against it, Spell said.
None of the family members spoke English, police said. Patrol Officer Quan Tran, who speaks Vietnamese, talked to the youth through the door. The 17-year-old has displayed psychiatric symptoms in the past and apparently was not taking his medication, Spell said. The youth was saying "the devil made him do it and he wanted the police to shoot him," he said.
After about an hour, the Vietnamese officer, who Spell said "did an unbelievable job," persuaded the teenager to move the bureau, slide the knife out and step back across the room by a window with his hands on his head. Then the police entered and took him into custody, Spell said.
The kid’s gonna’ go to a psycho unit, there won’t be any trial or sentencing.
And from reading the story, this would be a good and proper use of our society’s special handling of minors and psychiatric cases in criminal matters, IMHO.
I don’t really care that his family speaks Vietnamese. My grandfather spoke Lithuanian, another spoke Swedish, and my Huguenot forebears in Boston circa 1665 spoke French.
So what.
Mine spoke Polish and German. But, they took the time to learn English. In fact, they all made it a priority. Today's "immigrants" both legal and illegal can't be bothered because of support of the attitude that you have.
Why bother to learn English when the taxpayer will pay for your interpreter.
That wasn't the point. The point is they speak no English in an English speaking country.
My grandfathers grandparents came from Germany. They did NOT teach their children and grandchildren German. My Grandpa was only taught to count from 1 to 10 in German. They were told "We are Americans now". And THAT is the point.
You are exactly right. From this springs multiculturalism, which is actually division and balkanization. There can be no national identity without a common language.
But then, that is the point and desire of the likes of Alinsky, Ayers, Obama, et. al.
Well, maybe they got here a year ago.
The story doesn't make any reference how long they've been in the USA.
So what. Maybe they've been here for 2 months, or 2 years.
As above, we don't have any info about their circumstances, I don't see why you'd make such assumptions.
Apparently whether it’s been 2 months, 2 years or 10 years, they aren’t learning English. My ancestors did. They didn’t have interpreters. They HAD to learn. Immigrants now want to be catered to. They don’t want to blend. A hyphenated society will become a failed society.
>>>> Apparently whether it’s been 2 months, 2 years or 10 years, they aren’t learning English. My ancestors did. <<<<
This is complete bosh, give it a rest.
My wife is Vietnamese, and I know LOTS of Vietnamese immigrants from all sorts of backgrounds.
It takes time to learn English. A lot of variables enter into exactly how long it takes.
You couldn’t have picked a much worse target for your ire than the Vietnamese, who as a rule integrate reasonably well in American society. Not perfectly, but I don’t get “Push 1 for Vietnamese” when I call my bank or the DMV.
And boy do opinions change when it gets personal.
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