Police: 11-year-old fatally shoots intruder, 16, in Missouri

[Gman]

Police: 11-year-old fatally shoots intruder, 16, in Missouri

Young sheep-dog protecting home and 4 year-old girl...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis County police say an 11-year-old boy fatally shot a 16-year-old intruder during a home invasion.

Sgt. Brian Schellman says officers responded Thursday afternoon to a report of a shooting at a north St. Louis County home.
He says officers arrived to find the 16-year-old boy dead inside.

Police believe the teen made it inside the home on his third attempt to break in and say the 11-year-old shot him in the head.
Schellman says a 4-year-old girl was also inside. Neither she nor the 11-year-old was hurt.

Authorities have not identified the second suspect, who they say fled but was found a short time later.

Schellman says the children's mother wasn't home during the incident but is cooperating with an investigation.

[Irving]

I wonder if that means third attempt to get in on that night, or over different attempts altogether.

[hurley842002]

Sad all the way around. An 11 year old has to deal with taking someone's life, and a 16 year old who's parents obviously failed him, is dead. Fortunately the victims weren't harmed.

[Great-Kazoo]

Sad all the way around. An 11 year old has to deal with taking someone's life, and a 16 year old who's parents obviously failed him, is dead. Fortunately the victims weren't harmed.

Just one more success story of the family unit, in a big city.

[crays]

Devil's Advocate here...

11 year old has access to family firearm(s) with no adult(s) in the home?

Don't get me wrong. I am happy the children are safe and the intruder is not, but there is a lot of detail/info yet to come out in this.

[Skully]

Devil's Advocate here...

11 year old has access to family firearm(s) with no adult(s) in the home?

Don't get me wrong. I am happy the children are safe and the intruder is not, but there is a lot of detail/info yet to come out in this.

I had access to my Dad's shotgun at 10-11 yrs old. He was working late and I was a latchkey kid, come home from school dad was still out 4 hours or more. He taught me early on respect and use of a firearm, why I had access. I also had access to a 22 in a gun case in "My room" I would go out to the irrigation ditch and plink all the time when papa was not around. He felt proud I knew what to do "just in case."

Over the generations and time things changed for the stupid, in my book.

[crays]

I had access to my Dad's shotgun at 10-11 yrs old. He was working late and I was a latchkey kid, come home from school dad was still out 4 hours or more. He taught me early on respect and use of a firearm, why I had access. I also had access to a 22 in a gun case in "My room" I would go out to the irrigation ditch and plink all the time when papa was not around. He felt proud I knew what to do "just in case."

Over the generations and time things changed for the stupid, in my book.

Exactly. Things have definitely changed for the worse in a lot of ways. You certainly don't see a gun rack (with guns in place) in any trucks in the typical high school parking lot anymore.

As I stated at the end of my post, there are a lot more details to be had regarding the situation.
I have no knowledge of this boy's maturity level, his education/experience with firearms, or possible previous interaction with the intruders. From the article in the OP, I'm not even sure if this happened in the city, suburbs or more rural area.
I didn't bother to read the comment section, but I'm sure there were some posts in there that were more concerned with the firearm (!panic!) and the dead (he was always such a nice boy) criminal, than with the safety and well-being of the boy and his sister.

[rondog]

Saw this on another site. I'm sure there's a LOT more to the story.

[HoneyBadger]

I'm guessing the 16 year old child was white because I haven't been deafened by people screaming #BLACKLIVESMATTER all across the halls of the internet.

[Graves]

WOW!! What a f'd up situation.