Black Man Arrested For Shooting Five-Year-Old White Boy "For Riding Into Neighbor's Yard"

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Boy, 5, shot dead at point-blank range ‘for riding into neighbor’s yard’​

A five year-old boy was shot dead in front of his sisters at point-blank range for cycling into his next-door neighbor’s yard, it was claimed. Cannon Hinnant was killed close to his home in Wilson, North Carolina, on Sunday.
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A GoFundMe page set up to raise cash for the youngster’s funeral shared a possible motive for the ‘senseless’ killing, saying: ‘A beautiful 5 year old baby boy riding his bicycle was shot by his neighbor point blank in Wilson NC.

‘One minute he is enjoying his life, the next it all ends because he rode into his neighbors yard.’ Cannon’s neighbor Darius Sessoms, 25, has since been arrested and charged with the youngster’s murder.
Read more: Boy, 5, shot dead at point-blank range 'for riding into neighbor's yard' | Metro News
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I don’t agree with capital punishment. But I do believe he should be put away for life without parole. Let him rot in a living death.
 
I don’t think he’d last long in prison.

Criminals who target children aren’t tolerated very well in prison by the other inmates.
 
We really only have to look at our society today to see how this could happen. People seem to get so offended by the smallest of things and tend to believe they have the right to deal with it in any way they see fit.
 
I think that’s highly dependent on the community one lives in. It’s certainly not that way in south eastern Kentucky.
 
I can’t really imagine why someone would do something like this. The article mentions that the family knew the killer and that the father had dined at his house the night before, so I wonder if there was some idea of argument or feud involved?
 
I don’t understand this stuff! If this homeowner was so offended about a five-year-old trespassing on his property, all he had to do was take the child aside and explain to him that, in the future, he should ask permission before entering his yard. Maybe report it to the parents. Shooting the kid dead was totally unnecessary, senseless and unacceptable.

Was there more to this? I suspect maybe there was. But shooting kids isn’t the answer, whatever the motive or reason was.

But, what can we expect from a culture that no longer respects life?
 
The home that this little boy lived in looks like a quiet area. These two families knew each other for years according to articles.

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Often involving people, using guns. Majority of cases, I would guess.
 
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Sad as it is, it’s nothing unusual here in the US, hundreds of kids have already been killed or injured by guns so far this year. It is what it is.
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The 4th of July weekend was a big weekend for child death by firearm in a few cities.
 
Funny how those are rare occurrences in rural areas with much higher rates of gun ownership.
 
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Funny how those are rare occurrences in rural areas with much higher rates of gun ownership.
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I expect deaths to happen at higher rates where there are more people. Any idea what the per capita numbers look like? The CDC has a chart on firearm mortality by state. But such a chart does not divided dad into the reason for the firearm discharge (the resulting numbers didn’t look as I had expected).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm

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Of course, the conversation turns towards the weapon used in the murder as opposed to the murderer himself. If that man had stabbed the kid or used a blunt object, would that have made the boy’s death any less tragic?
 
I think that falls under “cruel and unusual” punishments.

I’m unconditionally against such executions.
 
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