Chattanooga Mother Mourns Loss of 15 Year Old Shot By Police

I am an adult..not fou;ed mouth..with a respectable job. This kid was a thug!! Shooting at vehicles,carrying a gun. Bet you would change your mind if it were you he was shooting at.

when you come from where ive came from and where dooney came from then you'd understand... i went to school wit him and i thought he was well mannered but we all have our own opinions... but where we came from we do all we can to survive and be safe... his mom cant watch him all the time she has to do wat she gots to do to take care of her family...... people juss think they kno wat they talkin bout but you dnt understand how other peoples lives are... his mother did the best she could and yall kno that you cant watch all your kids at the same time!!!!!!!!!!!!! R.I.P-dooney

I guess I am one of the immature rednecks you are talking about. I dip coppenhagen, drive a lifted 4 wheel drive truck, and like to drink a cold beer on my front porch after a long day at work. I also know right from wrong and what this kid was doing was wrong. He was running around with a gun shooting in an area with kids all around. This policeman was just doing his job. He did not want to kill that kid but the kid was pointing a gun at him. If I was in his shoes I would have done the exact same thing. I love how self-righteous people such as your self want to put people down that have opinions that are different from yours. I am not a real religous person but I believe if someone needs prayer you pray for them. It is not even a question of wanting to or not. And people are trying to make this a black or white issue. It is not. It is an issue of right and wrong and this young man was in the wrong. All he had to do was drop the gun but he did not. Instead he pointed the gun at a police officer the officer did what he had to do. Speaking for myself and probably all of the other rednecks out there you would never have the chance to become my friend because we do not associate with uppity self-righteous jackasses such as yourself. And for the person everybody is being so hard on about his spelling dont worry about it man you are entitled to your opinion just like everybody else on here. I hate that this kid died it is a tragedy and no one really knows what was going on with him even though I believe he was doing wrong it is not my place to judge him. He was just a kid and everybody should try to remember that. There is this redneck's two cents now everybody can start bashing if you want I can take it.

You must live a very sheltered life up on one of the high-and-mighty mountains. Listen. You wan ME to have respect for HIM, right? If I showed up in HIS 'hood', what do you think would happen? I'm white as a ghost. I'm just a moving target in the hood. Respect is EARNED, just like trust. This kid was carrying a gun with SOME kind of intent on his mind. Do you REALLY think that warrants respect? Suppose he had murdered someone? Should I still have respect for him?

You obviously have no idea what is going on in this city. I carry a gun for protection of friends and family. I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop, and because when only seconds count, 911 is just minutes away. You think it is MY destructive attitude towards THEM that gives me pause and causes me to worry about my safety? PLEASE! The children in this city carry guns. They are willing and able to kill. They are not forced to take responsibility for their behavior because of misguided people like YOU.

You don't want to pray? Then DON'T, hypocrite. You speak mildly about this poor armed child, but spit venom at those who call it what it is. Good luck to you.

I feel that if he really is a CHILD he would have been at home and not carrying a gun around. In today’s society most parents don’t have a clue as to what their kids are doing, who they are running with or what kind of friends they have. I can say my mother worked when I was a young child and if she could not be there when I was a teenager she had someone who knew where I was and who I was with. It’s different today there is divorce and kids raising kids, but IF the values are instilled as a young child you would not have guns in school, kids having kids, and if the bible still meant anything they would know what they were doing could send their soul to hell, as well as them being in church can change a life. I go to church and I see the difference in kids that are raised in a God fearing home as opposed to kids that are left to their own devices and it is not a sight I like to see. With the world in the shape it is in people should be teaching their kids about the Lord and God. The bible says that it will be parents against children, and it would be like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, folks read your bible it is only going to get worse. Christ is coming for his church and you need to be ready.
I also feel that IF parents cared what was happening they would know what was going on. Kids are kids and you are the parents not them, stop asking them what you can do or not do, search their rooms see what is going on, look at what they are watching on TV and on the Computer, half of the stuff that is out there is trash and unfit to watch , and I check up on my kids, I make sure they are law bidding, God fearing kids that know what is happening in the worldsnf know what they should steer clear of. Put God back in the schools and you will see a difference in how a kid acts.
I hate to say it but if the child as he is called would have put down the gun like he was ordered to(lack of respect for authority) he would be alive today. I pray that if this kids has brothers and sisters they look at what happened and don't follow in his footsteps. God bless you and I will be praying for them.

THIS IS HANDLEING BUSINESS, THIS HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR MANY PEOPLE AND IF THE COMMUNITY WOULD STICK TOGETHER INSTEAD OF AGAINST ONE ANOTHER THEN THINGS MIGHT BE DIFFERENT, PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE ONES THAT MAKE THAT IMPOSSIBLE, ITS SAD FOR BOTH SIDES AND THERE IS NO SOLUTION TO THIS CASE REALLY, POLICE IS GOING TO BE WHERE THEY ARE ASSIGNED AND KIDS ARE GONNA RUN THE STREET, KIDS ARE GONNA DO AS THEY PLEASE AND A PARENT CANNOT KEEP A EYE ON A CHILDS EVERY MOVE, THATS FACT AND ITS TIME PARENTS REALIZE THAT, WE DONT KNOW WHAT ARE KIDS ARE DOING WHEN WE ARENT AROUND AND NOT ONE PARENT CAN HONESTLY SAY THEY DO KNOW, YOU ONLY KNOW WHAT THEY TELL YOU, UNLESS YOU ARE RIGHT THERE WITH THEM EVERY SECOND AND THAT IS HARD TO DO ALL THE TIME.

You are exactly WRONG! You bring up a child in the way he is supposed to go and when he is older he will not depart from it. Had this mother, and hopefully father, done more to guide this child when he was much younger, this might not be an issue right now. When the kid has the mind of his own, it's too late to try to reign in the bad behavior. Now we get to the spare the rod crap. Everyone wants to be touchy-feely when it comes to discipline. And THIS is what we get for it. He was not reared as he should have been. Yes, he is responsible for his actions, as his mother is for hers.

Listen. Your friend was carrying a gun illegally. He ran from police. Do you or anyone else really think this is right? This does not constitute a tyragedy becasue it was EASILY preventable. If he had NOT had the gun, if he had NOT run from the police, this would not have happened. The fauklt doe NOT lie with the police. The fault lies with the alleged criminal. Criminal behavior leads to confrontations with police, like it or not.

Not all of the comments on this subject are getting through because of extreme profanity.

Tone down the cursing, and we'll be happy to add your opinions to the board.

Mr Parker,

I am very displeased that you posted that people shouldn't curse. How else would you know who the thugs are?

The thugs spell like they are texting. but because they spend more tim on the streets gang-banging than going to school, this is how they really spell and talk....

"They don't be like dat...."
"Don't b dissin' my cuz...."
"I don't be no thug!!...."
"You better RECOGNISE!"....

Ignorance shows in print on a computer easier than talking to someone, sometimes.

Dooney was not a punk he was a well mannered child whom i have known for 6 yrs...He had some problems growing up but he was a good kid...You can't talk about people like this that you don't even know. He was a sweet person and i will miss you Dooney...RIP baby I love you!

1. He was NOT a well mannered child if he was in the streets with a gun.
2. He had "problems" because the one parent he had was not doing her job!
3. I don't know "dooney" personally, but, common sence tells me, I would blow a hole through him, if that little punk was waving a gun at me too.

Yeah, you're right. Good kids are always going around with guns and running from the cops. Yeah, that's right, he was just being the upstanding citizen he has been raised to be. My mistake.

I have a better idea. How about publishing YOUR pictures with a label stating that you are a wannabe Thug Enabler. That Officer had no desire to shoot that MAN. He was Man enough to carry a gun and menace everyone around him but he suddenly becomes a little kid when he is shot?? I have no doubt the Officer whould have far preferred to have had no contact whatsoever with that little thug. God belss the police for keeping us all safe from thugs.

I hope they DO post his picture so that when I see him in the streets I can thank him for doing the right thing, thank him for protecvting me and my family, thank him for putting away the scum of the earth, and apologize that there are so many who seemlingly want to cash in on a bad situation. MY heart is with the officer for the hell he is now in becasue of this little gangsta wannabe. Cudos to the cops!

If you'll accept posting of the decedant minor's photos (tats and all) and resume of past deeds, we'll gladly accept your terms. Tend your own backyard before trying to trim ours; the brush may be too thick for you to hew.

Is it not enough that we house these thugs, pay the utility bills, send them to school, by them food, and pay for health care, all on my hard earned money, but we also have to pay our finest police officers to leave there homes and families, when the little thugs start shooting and selling drugs on my (government) property?

These animals don't deserve jail, they deserve bullets. Moms (and Dads) have all they could ever want, they live in the USA, where our poor have CATV, Wii's, Xbox, $120 shoes, $1500 Spinning Rims, School and scholarships I pay for, access to every program under the sun. And yet they cannot find a way to stay off drugs, and make tough choices like getting jobs, reading to children, spending time with them before they turn into thugs.

For crying out loud take the bus to the library if you have to.

But no...

Well it's the police's fault for responding when Jr. starts shooting and illegally has a weapon. Don't you believe the police would rather have been home with his family instead of putting his neck on the line for this piece of garbage? What if Jr. had put a bullet in the officer and his kids lost his Daddy?

Thanks to Chattanooga's Finest. I appreciate you protecting my family from this thug.

Could not agree more, ya give them everything for free and all is taken for granted. I think we need to start open season gangs.

you hit the nail on the head...i agree.

This cop wasn't a child killer, he was actually doing his job to protect the community, if this little punk was waving a gun in your face, you would EXPECT the chattanooga police to do thier job--jackass!

AMEN!!! It was also mentioned that the family has hired a lawyer. The boy had not even been dead 24 hours and they hired a lawyer. To me that is disgusting. These people will now try to sue the police department for an insane amount of money. Why was a 15 year old boy running in the streets with a gun? I am sorry for their loss but this kid was doing wrong and this "mother" is as much to blame for what happened as anyone else involved.

I hate to hear a kid go so young, but, I have to agree. If he had a gun in his hand, it was his own stupid judgement that got him shot, and his mother shouldn't sue because it was her fault he wasn't supervised and didn't have proper "up-bringing".

Take your medicine and other parents to thugs:.... LEARN FROM IT! The city will be setting a bad example if they give that woman a DIME!

Nine times out of 10 the people that have the stongest opinions about someone being a bad mother.....are people WHO DON'T HAVE CHILDREN! Think back to when you where a teenager and the sneaky things you did when your parents turned around for 1 minute. I don't care how many books you read or how many of your neices, nephews, or other family members you have babysat for 2 and 3 hours at a time. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO RAISE A CHILD UNTIL YOU HAVE ONE YOUSELF! They don't come with a manual. Every child is different. So as you are judging this woman and calling her "A BAD MOTHER"....maybe you should take into consideration that he was 15, father probably not present in the home, and when that happens a boy is usually going to the look to the streets to make him a man. I'm disgusted by some of these comments. Make me sick!

I not only have kids, but I have kids who respect authority, attend school REGULARLY (not just when they feel like it or J. Bailey is involved). I give them a certain time to be in the yard and a time to go to bed. I punish them when they misbehave and take privelages when they are acting out and not doing what they are supposed to.

In my youth, I misbehaved. Know what momma did? (And she was a single parent) She called the police on me or had me locked up herself to try to straighten me out.

Point being, if you give your kids the right kind of discipline and structure... talk to them.... listen to them... and above all MAKE THEM KNOW YOUR RULES ARE LAW in your house before they are teens; you will raise happy productive citizens. And parents: Its ok to tell your kids who they can and can't hang out with while they are under your roof. Its ok to spank (not beat) them. And don't allow privelages to pain in the @$$es until they do what you ask them to do.... No matter how small of a deal it is. (Take the phone, X-BOX, TV, date on Fri night, car, money to do things,...etc)

This woman was probably too enthralled in her prostitution for rock to care what he was doing or who he was doing it with.

First of all, I didn't blame it on the mother, I blamed it on the kid, as sad as it is. But you say the father probably wasn't present. You are making assumptions and blaming him when you have no right to! A lot of people don't have both, or either, parents to look up to. But most 15 year olds know that running around the neighborhood with a gun doesn't make you a man.

Let this be the word to the wise. I am 28 and black. I was raised by my mother with 2 brothers and a sister. My dad left when my older brother was born. I was 5 when that happened. We lived in what most here would term a hovel. It was a room with beds we made a tnight and put away in the morning. It had a kitchen with running water sometimes. We had a garden and ate everythihng that came out of it. We went to school, sometimes with holes in our shoes, socks, pants and shirts. We took responsibility for what happened around us because we were EXPECTED to. My mother pulled no punches, took us to church EVERY Sunday, read the Bible faithfully, made sure we feared (that means respected for the heathn in the crowd) God and made sure our homework was done. My mother was not a smart woman, but she was smart enough. I put myself through college by working my butt off. Now this young man comes along and undermines the faith others have in black people. This is a shame. He made his choices, but his MOTHER dropped the ball in MY opinion. Had she taken responsibility for her family as she should have, he would not have had the CHANCE to do the things he did. Shame on HER and HIM!

Thank you and AMEN SISTER

Glad you agree, but I'm not a woman.