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By RAY REYES
The Tampa Tribune
PLANT CITY - A 16-year-old accused last month of firing several shots at another juvenile was booked into the Orient Road Jail Thursday after the State Attorney’s Office decided to charge the suspect as an adult.
Callett Echeverria, of 2105 Johnson Road West, Plant City, was first apprehended May 10 and taken to a juvenile detention center, said Sgt. Jim Schultz of the Plant City Police Department. Echeverria had been at the detention center since the night of his arrest before being transferred to the Hillsborough County Jail Thursday, Schultz said.
Investigators said Echeverria stepped out of his vehicle, pulled out a small handgun and fired several shots at a 15-year-old boy who was sitting in a car stopped on East Cherry Street about 6:15 p.m. May 10. Bullets struck the car but not the victim, who then “fled in fear of his life,’’ Schultz said. The victim was acquainted with Echeverria, Schultz said.
Echeverria was charged with attempted first degree murder, shooting at or into a vehicle and discharging a firearm in public, police said. He was being held today without bail at the Orient Road Jail.
Yes children are children, however when some one that is old enough to drive and tries to shoot another human on purpose, he is no longer acting as a child. He was trying to take another child’s life. Thank God he is a bad shot and missed. If he wants to act like an adult, and wants to decide if another person should live or not, yes treat him just like an adult and charge him like one also.
I think it is a load of crap to charge children as adults. Children are children, and to charge them as adults does them more damage then good. They are then put into adult prisons with adult offenders to learn more about how to be a criminal.
In the old days, if a kid shot at someone, his parents would spank him, ground him, take the car keys away, take away priveledged. Now, it’s against the law to use corporal punishment, and when a kid does wrong they just lock him up! How crazy is THAT?!!
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Posted by Robert Miller, South Carolina on 07/09 at 01:43 PM
WHAT?!?!? Your ‘child’ shoots a gun at someone, and you would have them spanked and restricted?!?! That’s just crazy! One of the largest problems facing this country is people (& Children!) not being held responsible for their own actions. If the ‘child’ believes himself old enough to try to take anothers life?...Then he should pay the price that anyone would.
End of story!