'Mental illness is real': Family of 12-year-old boy shot, killed by mother seeks compassion

The family of a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by his mother inside a South Chicago home over the weekend are heartbroken but hope the incident shines a light on mental health.

[dvitoc]

Your children are NOT your friends! You are supposed to be their parent & protect them...not kill them

[FiggaFrank]

Your children is not your friend not best friend. Be their parent.

[nonameinsanity]

It's too late for help, y'all should've got her some help long before she pulled a gun and shot her son dead. Regardless of whether it was her mind and her heart, her body committed the crime, so her body needs to go to prison for life. A cage for life is all the help she's getting. She had the consciousness of mind to pick up a firearm, load it, and point it at her son and shoot him dead, because he was unable to find an electronic device for her phone, really? Personally, I don't think she was mentally ill, I think she just needed to take out her life's frustrations on her son and used a gun to do it. She can use whatever excuse she wants, her family can use whatever excuse they want, but here's what it is: MURDER. PURE & SIMPLE.

[EricWokei]

How did she get access to gun and bullets if she is mentally ill? Chicago should sue the family for gun violence as their new initiative. just announced by Beetlejuice's to combat surging violence! Productive weekend for Beetlejuice's team

[queenbee]

MENTAL ILLNESS is real!!! Where is the compassion for baby boy? He didn't deserved any of that. That's the problem she should have been a MOTHER and not a best friend to her son. This is OUTRAGEOUS and DISGUSTING. How can these people sit up here and tried to save this woman from jail time. She just murdered her innocent son. Poor baby boy this shouldn't have never happened. She needs to be held accountable to the FULLEST. She could have bought another SD card. It wasn't like that was the last one on the PLANET. This nation needs PRAYING for and the people in it.

[litebrite]

Yeah ok she loved her son. she loved him to death would be a understatement

[prilep]

At least nobody is blaming “the gun” this time

[shoddydoddy]

Whatever happened to going to get a switch?

[pfzht]

She showed none to her son, so she gets none. Bury her under the jail.

[derricklangford]

Wait things were so bad that she met with her daughters coworkers the day before her daughter took her grandchilds life and at no time did she think to call the childs father and have him come and pick up his son. Somethings not adding up.

[murdamanski]

Guaranteed that this lady was a covert Narcissistic Personality Disorder ...thats why her family think ahe loved that boy so much because Narcissist in public always need to portray perfection or perfect stability as a mother but behind close doors any defiance or the slightest sign of individuality from the mother, on the part of the son is met with anger, ridicule and in some cases physical abuse, even death - all behind close doors though .

A red flag is how the womans mom say she loved that boy " Fiercely " and also the woman ALWAYS referring to her son as her best friend ... Because narcissist dont have friends of there own . And it seems that the womans mom also may be narcissistic ...the way she is even in the face of obvious tragedy or insanity the mother is still trying to portray her daughter as fine, and a perfect mother - when her murdering her son is pretty good indication the the woman was not as fine and as a perfect mother as her mom is portraying her to be in that news interview .

[terminalogicalinexactitude]

Could have used Joe Biden as another example.

[CHEPOSPOOKY]

Ok maybe she is mentally I'll still were did the gun come from and what was on that s card if she partying twerking on that s card or X rated does that really make her crazy and if she is that means she will be released in a few months due to how the system works cant force them to take their meds so if she snaps again then what. Not all bangers are smart some got these expensive cars on their name but no job cant come up how they got the money they also put items on family members how is a lady living on sec 8 driving a Mercedes but the relative is a known gangbangers, your a victim of a crime by a gang members and hes known to have money why not sue because the victim is scared . I understand there a right way but this violence is getting out of hand in some areas and the community is not stepping up beetlejuice and the CPD cant do it all alone .

[galaxyandstars]

She shot him twice once on live stream wow unbelievable

[uscgeharris]

She was getting high on legal marijuana.

[Harlem.Harlemz]

Ain't no mental health illness!
That's like me killing my boyfriend because he didn't give me my phone back.

[Lines]

Gangs don't usually put all their drug money in the bank or make gang affiliation a matter of record. So, bringing them into the legal system could be difficult, to say nothing of where the drug trade in Chicago's going to go once the city gets a taste of the action.

[zorazorazorzzora]

Ohh sad 😢. People are losing it everywhere … Covid, life stress and pressures .. Navigating LIFE is so much harder than it used to be
I waited an hour in the drive thru at Walgreens in Olathe, KS to get my medications. When I pulled up to the window the tech pulled the curtain down, pointed at me and said NO. I was dumbfounded… after an hour of waiting she just didn’t care … thankfully I don’t own a gun .. that night I could have gone postal
And COVID is an excuse for bad customer service

[synthiawilson]

Respect, family knows this illness deadly, don’t do anything until loved one harms someone

[jamint.jaddua]

This is unforgivable man like really nobody seen this coming??🤔