Balloon release held in memory of 9-year-old Jarvis Watts

WGN's Courtney Spinelli reports on the story.

[loveforeignaccents]

As horrible as this is/was, balloons aren't going to help anything, especially the environment.

[PrincessAmaka]

Idc if it was a accident or not whoever owns that gun or brought that gun in the house should be charged with negligent homicide.

[DontDooTooMuch]

This case makes me so mad! How is no one that was in that house talking???!! SMH Condolences to the family my azz. They're covering up that child's murder!!!! Arrest all of them. This is ridiculous!

[Julie]

Tragic.
However, releasing a heap of plastic balloons into the air, which will end up in our oceans, helps no one.
Please, PLEASE when someone sadly dies, either plant trees or donate the money you would have spent on a plastic balloon to charity, or do a kind deed.
Polluting the world with balloons to ‘remember’ someone makes no sense. Thank you, and again, condolences to the family.

[torcik]

Where are the store front preachers and community activists? I know. they only hold a press conference when a black man is shot by a cop

[shaystern]

shot himself. playing with a gun. imagine the supposed adults in THIS house...

[David._-]

Abraham Lincoln should have made a better decision along with Martin Luther King it cost both these guys their lives

[josiah]

The crazy thing was that Jarvis was my acuall teal friend bro