Posted April 18, 2016 8:20 am by Comments

By Bob Owens

Jajuan Latham

A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed in a shooting in Knoxville Saturday night after a “anti-gun violence” basketball tournament.

Add his small body to the sacrificial pile at the Alter of Failed Culture.

A 12-year-old at Bearden Middle School was shot and killed in a gang-related shooting in Knoxville Saturday night, according to police.

Jajuan Hubert Latham was struck in the head by a gunshot while sitting in the back of his father’s SUV at Danny Mayfield park just before 10 p.m.

The father was not injured in the shooting.

During a press conference Sunday, Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch condemned the recent gang-related violence.

“The violence has got to stop, this can’t go on. We do not need to bury anymore children,” Rausch said. “It’s my gang is better than your gang. That makes no sense to me.They’re cowards. A coward shoots blindly at a crowd.”

That’s not entirely true, according to the police force itself.

According to the preliminary investigation, a gathering by a large number of people was being held at Mayfield Park when shooting erupted between the party attendees, and occupants of two vehicles that were driving by the park. Multiple shell casings of various caliber weapons were recovered at the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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