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POLICE HAVE NOT yet released information on how they believe a three-year-old boy got access to the handgun he used to fatally shoot a one-year-old relative.
Braylon Robinson died at a Cleveland hospital less than an hour after he was shot in the face on Sunday afternoon.
Braylon’s mother, 23-year-old Shanee Robinson, told police she was in the same room with her back turned to her son, the three-year-old and another one-year-old when she heard a gunshot and then discovered Braylon lying on the floor bleeding.
A handgun was found near the three-year-old boy, police said. The Cleveland police homicide unit is investigating.
Police chief Calvin Williams said criminal charges will likely be filed after investigators determine who owns the gun and how the child got access to it.
“A three-year-old cannot be held accountable for a tragedy like this,” Williams said Sunday, adding that someone knew the handgun was in the apartment and didn’t safeguard it. “People will be held accountable for this tragedy.”
The three-year-old and the surviving one-year-old are relatives of Shanee Robinson’s but were not Braylon’s siblings, a police spokesman said. The children, who were turned over to their mother Sunday, were not injured.
Robinson did not return telephone messages seeking comment Monday.
Williams called the shooting a sad day for Cleveland.
“This fascination that we have with handguns, not just in this city but in this country, has to stop,” Williams said. “This is a senseless loss of life.”
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Can we please stop propagating the lies of the English media? Brexit did the damage, not the protocol.
@James Pelow: Very well said. They’re actually using it as a distraction. And it’s drawing us into something that has nothing to do with us. Brexit is the problem. End of story.
You can’t hold a poll asking people if they think the Protocol is good for Northern Ireland without clarifying what the alternative is.
That’s like asking a child if they think the settlement that their parents agreed to after divorce is good.
Let’s be clear… article 16 does not end the protocol. It can suspend a part of it for a short period of time. When the UK says it will trigger A16, call it out for what they want to do….they want to scrap it and force a border on the island of Ireland or a border between Ireland and EU. That’s their plan and I believe it’s been the plan all along. This mess has been made by the UK and the protocol is a plaster. The GB companies that send those goods that will never end up back in the EU (including ROI) need to be better catered for. The issue is that there is no trust between the UK and EU as, so far, the UK hasn’t implemented main parts of the protocol so all at risk goods must be considered guilty until proven innocent.
Ok theJournal…. Time to correct your headlines… “Is Brexit bad or good for firms in Northern Ireland?”
The protocol is a workaround to the main issue, Brexit..
While I’ve no doubt it has caused some legitimate disruption for businesses heavily linked to GB, how did the study take into account costs (for consultancy etc) that would’ve been incurred without the procotol because they also trade with the EU?
Or how did it take into account all the paperwork NI businesses save because they can trade with the Republic and the rest of the EU freely?
All these analyses seem to assume that trade with Ireland was either insignificant, or its continuity was a a given (neither of these are true) and that any disruption with GB is a cost without any quantifiable benefit (again not true).
It’s not the protocol that’s not working. It’s brexit that’s not working.
How dare the EU break away from the United Kingdom. They’ve made things very difficult for everyone, especially the Brits!
By leaving the CU and SM and going for a Sharia Brexit GB turned itself into a legal and regulatory Kaliningrad. Their call-their choice…If they hadn’t CHOSEN that there would be no protocol. They want a hard border in IRL or IRL out the the EU-they will get neither but what they will get is humiliation.
It is improving trade between north and south.
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