The Latest Non-Demonized Yute

Despite Conehead's best efforts to non-demonize, this keeps happening:

• A 16-year-old boy has been charged with participating in a shooting and robbery that left three people dead and a fourth injured in the Chatham neighborhood in February 2024. He is the second person charged in the case and has not been publicly identified because he is expected to be prosecuted as a juvenile.

  Details of the case emerged a month after the shooting, during a detention hearing for the first person charged, Antonio Velasco, who is now 18. During the hearing, prosecutors said four people gathered in a bedroom inside a home in the 8000 block of South Vincennes starting in the late afternoon of February 25, 2024: a 16-year-old boy, 14-year-old Amere Deese, 36-year-old Randy Graham, and 20-year-old Ladeverette West Ringgold, who lived in the home with family.

  The group spent hours “playing with a rifle,” an assistant state’s attorney said, but they ultimately set it on the floor behind a television in the bedroom. At about 5 p.m., Velasco and his 13-year-old brother arrived, joined the others, and the group smoked marijuana together, prosecutors claimed at the time.

  Two hours later, prosecutors said, Velasco stepped out of the bedroom and returned carrying a handgun fitted with an extended ammunition magazine.

Obviously, more gun laws are needed to prevent people who shouldn't have guns from stealing another gun....or some such nonsense.