The family of a 7-year-old boy is calling for action after he was fatally shot amid a jet ski dispute in Tampa, Fla., on July 4. WFLA’s Annie Mapp reports.
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#Guns #Shooting #Florida
I’m so angry for this family. Why did this beautiful baby have to suffer … sending you all love and prayers. Rest in Power Lil man ❤
DISGRACEFUL ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE THEY KILLED AN INNOCENT KID
T2 said it’s in humans nature to destroy each other. We’re not going to make it. People .
I am so very sorry for your loss! There are no words!
So painful. I tell you, please stay away from altercations with strangers. If you get into one, be a man and walk away. People are shooting each other other stupid arguments. Let it go and move on. These things happen everyday. Let it go.
If only the 7 year old had a gun to protect himself from bad guys /s
If the 7 year old had a gun to protect himself, this would never happen /s
This why I stayed home on the fourth and I bought 1,000 dollars worth of fireworks and set them off in back yard with my boys. We roasted marshmallows by campfire until it got dark. We grilled up hamburgers and made tater salad n bbq baked beans. My boys had more fun at home than of we went somewhere to watch fireworks. I had more fun too. I was able have cpl beers and cpl shots at home. If I’d gone somewhere we just be sitting at n a crowd waiting for it to get dark. Wouldn’t be able drink cause I’d have to drive home with kids. Celebrate at home. It’s safer and more fun
if they were in th country they belong too he’s child would be alive.Fact
Absolutely heartbreaking.. my condolences to this poor family
❤🙏
Que tragedia tan horrible. 😞 Dios, quédate con esta familia. Trae Su consuelo y paz que sobrepase todo etendimiento.
What a horrific tragedy. God, be with this family. Bring Your comfort and peace that surpasses all understanding.
Check cctvs from bridge all cars that left in that timeline, get bullet/ search for all the shells in sand best you can, fingerprint the jet skis if they left and if they didn’t leave them or they owned them then on cctv look for the cars hauling them im sure they have cams by the boat ramps so…. and any trash/bottles from drinking watching fireworks. It will take time but if no one comes foward. Best chance you got. Or if they rented the Jet skis, paperwork will have names.
No parent shouldn’t bury their child. The next generation of children are our future and they need to be protected.
😢🙏🙏🙏
Fireworks in designated areas, far from housing and populated areas on 4th. Two too many strays bullets this 4th of July, its disgusting, shooting pointlessly isn’t American. It is murder right now.
No where is safe in the land of the free! Safer in Mexico where I have lived for the last 10 years!
God Bless America !!!
Florida takes another L.
My prayers to the entire family. I hope they catch the people responsible. And of course, NBC cuts the story off again
GUNS GUNS GUNS the GOP worships at the alter of the GUN lobby and THE NRA. This carnange will not end until no one votes for the GOP .BLOOD on their greedy hands.
Come on people
Number one cause of child fatality in America.
The shooter needs to go to prison…this stupid needless crap needs to stop!
They have like 10 babies so 1 less is not a big loss. Go back to Mexico invaders!🎉
Dude. This is 30 min away from my house.
America what a country
ID GO IN A RAGE AND GO STRAIGHT AFTER THAT GUNMAN AT ALL COST AND WOULDNT STOP
America looks like a basket case. Freedom should not be a bullet.
And then you got these people who swear giving everyone a gun makes the world a safer place… permitless carry they demand…
why wont they say who killed the child…
RIP, little brother.
1 Corinthians 15 } Amen and Alleluia
Good thing that ‘good guys with guns’ have impeccable aim.
Adults killing kids. No excuse ever, ever, ever.
Pathetic, Florida needs to wake up and get some gun control.
Welcome to Biden’s America!
Yeah, but don’t take away our guns. Even a person who can’t control their anger deserves to keep a gun.
Poor, beautiful boy 🌹
Was anyone arrested?
my God this is awful I hope the person who did this gets death sentence.
This is why being measured and moderate should be every man’s goal. Trying to act tough never leads to good things
Was the victim part of the ammosexual problem or just an innocent bystander? Is the grandfather culpable?
If people’s hearts actually went to the family of the victims of gun violence, Guns would have been banned from US long ago. But in reality a small amount of Americans love their guns more than those that died and we all just have to live with it. In fact more Americans will get guns and more people will get shot and die from it. It’s just a way of life here. Nothing will ever change. Just get them gun death coffins lined up for the next time. 😞😞😞😞
Another tradgedy brought to you by Ron Desantis and his responsible gun laws.
Don’t blame him for things brown people do it’s karma for being such filing race
Poor baby 😢
Yeah, way to go Florida. Loosen up those gun restrictions some more, why don’t ya?
Karma,you people enable guns and firecrackers,same,and then cry,you people enable desantis,karma,everything in life is related,personally i hate guns and fireckrackers,but intesponsible people love them ,dont care about the nuisance we cause to animals,thats how they killed the wolves ,bisons,mooses,and the natives,keep enabling murderers
My condolences to the family for their loss. Revelation 21: 3, 4
Somehow someone evil will justify this and needing guns at all times
What’s with the lawlessness by Latinos and blacks,will they ever stop their criminal behavior.
RIP that poor man. 😢
I pray Donald J Trump heals this family and grant their Grandson everlasting life
Welcome to America
This is beyond horrifying whoever responsible for this must pay
GUNS the Curse on America.
What happened? Who did it and why? What is the description of the suspect? I used to think news stories were all about… who, what, where, when and why.
No body is safe in gun caring Florida…..more guns more death 💀
Dont worry guys Pro Gun advocates promise more gun say if everyone has guns stuff like this will stop.
Imagine if everyone there had a gun?more guns more shootings.
This breaks my heart😥
And so no mention of who was doing the shooting?
That’s why I left America!
I am crying for this child and his family.
No license or anything to carry a firearm in Florida.
The usual suspect. Thats why we get no discription
Don’t pick fights especially when you have children around
Let’s hope the shooter isn’t black and the media will do a follow up to the story
So sorry for their loss.
Geezus.. makes you think twice about celebrating anything around other people!
Florida will FOREVER keep taking L’S…😞😞😞 RIP kid.
Tell us again about how MORE guns lead to a safer society! EVERY “encounter” can and most times end in gunfire!
Good riddance
Welp… there’s only one thing that can solve this… MORE GUNS!! GUNS FOR EVERYONE!! ‘MURICA!! 🤠🥴
So sorry🙏🏽RIP
The republican party is completely responsible for gun anarchy in america
RIP baby boy!!!!!
He died like a true American.
So sad, prayers and it was petty (as usual).
God bless.
The right to bare arms was a narcissistic idea.
😢
Florida is such a trash state
Latinos be like
Yup its crazy people with guns, but De Santis legalizing permit-less carry does not help.
What the heck is going on down there.. tragic and totally unjustified.
Just more blood on DeSantis hands.
RIP,Boy.;-(
Thank Desantis+NRA 🙁
And didn’t florida just make permitless carrying a thing. Destupid is really something. They could have kept it how it was and instead now crazy people can get guns easier.
Hurry!!!! Quick!!!! Fast!!!! Right away!!!!!! GUN CONTROL, GUN CONTROL, GUN CONTROL!!!!! Lay it on!!!!! Thick!!!! Heavy!!!!! Deep!!!! More, more, more!!!!! Don’t stop!!!!
More blood on gun runner DeSantis.
This is why I decided to stay home when having kids I’ll celebrate at home the world sucks. People and their pride can’t you just fight with your fist 🤜
Responsible gun owners right? Yeah whatever? White Christian conservative sanctimonious rubbish.
Don’t worry about justice not served here. There justice will come when their soul is outside their body. Where time does not exist, the pain they will feel the hurt they have done to others for eternity.
It’s best to resolve debts and trespasses done to others here, as there is a time, but if those are resolve in the afterlife, the process will be much harder and take an eternity…that’s why Jesus said, fix your problems here before dying. What you do here also bonds with the otherside.
Souls can never run away and hide from even here in this dimension.
Does anyone know what they look like
The gun man is the BIGGEST PEACE OF SH💩T!!!!!!!! My condolences may he rest in peace.
Rest in Peace.Wonderful young boy 🌱Two lives gone,The Shooter & the child.
Stories like this is why I think America’s gun laws need to be seriously revised. you can’t have just any and everybody owning a gun just because they’re an adult citizen. People are already idiotic without weapons, giving them one is just increasing the risk of innocent people getting hurt or worst, killed. Why are there so many guns in this country??
The killer won’t care about the boy, other than being amazed that he got away with it.
Terrible