Now the police think the gun belonged to the 8 year old's teenage half brother. I think it's a wonderful thing when a scumbag mother has multiple kids from multiple fathers that are all in prison and don't support them. What a fantastic family that must be. And that case for sterilization keeps having children, there's a 2 year old floating around as well. I bet Christmas time is a joy for all those fatherless kids.
Check out the picture from a press conference these idiots had. They're dressed up like they're going clubbing, next thing you know they're going to try suing the City for some reason. These scumbags think this is their 15 minutes of fame and they're riding it for all it's worth.
Isn't that great, a 7 year old kills an 8 year old with a teenager's gun while adults are in the house and small children are running around and these welfare scumbags think it's their time for fame.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/27/half_brother_may_be_gun_owner_police_say/Half brother may be gun owner, police say
Teenager a focus in fatal shootingBy Brian R. Ballou and Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff | June 27, 2007
Boston police focused yesterday on a teenage half brother as the possible owner of the illegal handgun that killed 8-year-old Liquarry Jefferson and also questioned family members, including the 7-year-old cousin they believe fired the fatal shot while playing.
Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said Jayquan McConnico, 15, may be taken into custody by the state Department of Youth Services for illegal activity. Davis would not elaborate, but a police official with knowledge of the investigation said police are looking closely at McConnico, in part because Liquarry was shot in the teenager's bedroom.
Another police official said McConnico has told detectives he handled the gun after the shooting. The 9mm semiautomatic was found hidden in a stairwell of the Roxbury apartment building.
As police worked to piece the case together, a family member, the grandmother of the three boys, spoke for the first time last evening about what happened in the Roxbury apartment moments before the shooting, which has infuriated some residents, saddened others, and exposed a troubled family.
Elaine Gadson said that late Sunday night, Liquarry and his cousin Anthony Jackson were in McConnico's room where they kept kicking out Liquarry's 2-year-old sister. Gadson, who was not present, said her account is based on what she was told by her daughter, Lakeisha Gadson, mother of Liquarry and McConnico.
Lakeisha Gadson, who was in the living room, overheard the boys talking in the bedroom, went to the door, and asked what was going on. "Oh, we want to play a game, and she keeps bothering us," they replied, according to Elaine Gadson.
Less than five minutes later, Lakeisha Gadson heard a loud pop, her mother said. At first, she thought it was a firecracker, but after smelling fumes and thinking the boys had lit something, Gadson walked back into the bedroom, where she found Liquarry bleeding on the floor behind the door.
"He said Anthony shot him," Elaine Gadson said in an interview with the Globe in a Mattapan restaurant.
Anthony had run out of the room. "He panicked, and he ran to the other side of the house," his grandmother said.
McConnico, who was in an adjacent bedroom, had already called 911. When the ambulance arrived, Liquarry was still moving his hands and legs and talking to the paramedics. "They thought he was going to make it," Elaine Gadson said.
When detectives arrived, Lakeisha Gadson and other family members panicked and told police armed intruders had forced their way into the apartment building and shot the boy, the grandmother said.
"When it became an issue of Lakeisha having to decide should I tell police that my 7-year-old nephew just shot my 8-year-old son, unfortunately she made a choice to make up something that was only to protect my grandson," Elaine Gadson said.
Lakeisha Gadson apologized yesterday for initially lying to police. "I apologize to the community, and I ask for their forgiveness," she said, her body trembling and voice shaking. "This is a difficult time for me and my family."
As she spoke at an impromptu press conference, Antonia Gadson, Anthony's mother, and Elaine Gadson put their arms around her and held her up as she nearly fell back.
It was not the family's first encounter with police. Liquarry's father is in prison on armed robbery charges, and he has been convicted of manslaughter. His mother has a record of violent criminal behavior.
Elaine Gadson said Liquarry and Anthony were like brothers and "loved each other very much."
"When you saw one child, you saw the other," she said at the press conference in front of Antonia Gadson's home. "Anthony would go home to his mother, and 10 minutes later he wanted to come back to be with us."
Through an intermediary, police arranged to interview Anthony with his mother at police headquarters. After spending much of the morning meeting with detectives, Anthony is still confused by what happened Sunday night, Elaine Gadson said.
"He's a baby; he did not know what he did," she said in the later interview. "He still does not know what he did. He's looking for Liquarry to play a game with him. He's saying: 'Well, Liquarry is at the hospital. When he comes home, we'll play a game.' "
Grief counselors met with students, their parents, and school personnel yesterday at John P. Holland Elementary School in Dorchester, where Liquarry finished first grade last week.
Rahzell, 7, a close friend of Liquarry's, cried yesterday as he spoke of his classmate.
"He was a good friend," Rahzell said. "He was always telling me about his family and his cousins and how they treated him really nice."
Mayor Thomas M. Menino visited the family yesterday afternoon for about an hour.
As he left, he said, "We had a discussion and offered support to both families. . . . This has a long road to go. We've got a mother who just lost her son, another mother whose son has done something very serious."
Menino said that police are not going to ignore the fact that the family initially lied to police and are investigating the family's latest version of events. He said investigators are also focused on tracking down how the gun ended up in the bedroom.
"Why was that gun in the house?" Menino asked.
Police intelligence documents from 2005 and last year, obtained by the Globe, say that McConnico is an associate of the MIC gang and has a firearm-arrest history.
In September 2005, he was arrested near Intervale Street for possessing a loaded handgun, the documents say. He was 13 at the time. McConnico is currently under DYS supervision.
State Representative Gloria L. Fox, a Roxbury Democrat, raised questions yesterday about the role state child protection workers played in the tragedy, because Lakeisha Gadson is a Department of Social Services client.
"We have had in the past several years ongoing investigations of how we work with families who are in crisis or in need, and DSS has had low marks in doing that," Fox said in an interview. "Clearly this could be seen as a [family] that could have been in need of services and did not receive them."
State officials declined to discuss what services it provided in the past, but issued a statement saying they were cooperating with police and "coordinating the appropriate services and intervention for the families, both the children and the mothers, during this difficult time."
Davis said police have filed a report with DSS informing the agency of the incident so it can take a more aggressive role in monitoring the home where the shooting took place.
He said police have turned investigative materials over to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, who will decide whether to pursue charges.
"There are a myriad of things that could happen," Davis said. "There could be misdemeanors charged; there could be felonies charged."
Conley said he cannot comment on specific charges, but said he is likely to use the secret grand jury process to determine which, if any, charges to file.
