TW: RACISM, VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE, ASSAULT, ATTEMPTED MURDER, GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF INJURIES
Summary: White man nearly kills an 8yo black boy, practically getting away with it. "5 to 99 years, for serious bodily injury to a child." Wanna bet he barely gets 20?
Source shows photo of boy in hospital, and also has a video. I deleted all photos from the cut version.
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'I look like a monster:' Eight-year-old boy who was shot in the face tells his family not to let other kids see him
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:35 EST, 3 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:59 EST, 3 October 2013
Donald Maiden has been in a Dallas hospital for the last month after being shot in the face just days after turning eight years old.
The boy's grandmother says he's recovering with another surgery planned in the next couple weeks - but he's horrified by the way he looks.
'He don't want the kids to look at his face,' his grandmother, Sharon Locklin, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. 'He says, "I look like a monster, granny." I'm like, "No, you don't."'
Brian Cloninger, 46, is accused of shooting Maiden on September 3 while the boy was playing tag outside his apartment complex. A motive has not been revealed.
Witnesses reported seeing Cloninger standing beside his pickup truck while the boy was bleeding and when someone asked whether he shot the boy, he allegedly responded, 'Yes, I shot that kid.'
Bleeding profusely, Maiden ran to his mother in their apartment.
'When he ran in I just screamed,' his mother, Latamarin Locklin, told KTVT. 'His mouth was just hanging off and it was just a big hole.
'I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel.'
Maiden's four-year-old brother was at home during the shooting and now he's in a constant state of terror.
'Every time somebody knocks on the door, he runs to the back of the house. He's afraid,' Locklin said.
Cloninger is being held on a charge of serious bodily injury to a child - a first-degree felony that has a sentence of five to 99 years in prison.
Maiden's grandmother is pushing for another charge of attempted murder.
'We don't want him to be on the streets,' she said. 'No matter what charges is, we want him to stay in.'
Attempted murder is a second-degree felony carring a two-to-20-year prison sentence.
Cloninger has a bond hearing set for October 10.
Maiden hopes to be home by Halloween.
'He told his mom, "If that man hadn't done this to me, I wouldn't be here in the hospital,"' Locklin said. 'He hates the hospital.'
EDITED for borked HTML and another source on charges, thanks to Layweed.
Source shows photo of boy in hospital, and also has a video. I deleted all photos from the cut version.
SOURCE
'I look like a monster:' Eight-year-old boy who was shot in the face tells his family not to let other kids see him
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:35 EST, 3 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:59 EST, 3 October 2013
Donald Maiden has been in a Dallas hospital for the last month after being shot in the face just days after turning eight years old.
The boy's grandmother says he's recovering with another surgery planned in the next couple weeks - but he's horrified by the way he looks.
'He don't want the kids to look at his face,' his grandmother, Sharon Locklin, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. 'He says, "I look like a monster, granny." I'm like, "No, you don't."'
Brian Cloninger, 46, is accused of shooting Maiden on September 3 while the boy was playing tag outside his apartment complex. A motive has not been revealed.
Witnesses reported seeing Cloninger standing beside his pickup truck while the boy was bleeding and when someone asked whether he shot the boy, he allegedly responded, 'Yes, I shot that kid.'
Bleeding profusely, Maiden ran to his mother in their apartment.
'When he ran in I just screamed,' his mother, Latamarin Locklin, told KTVT. 'His mouth was just hanging off and it was just a big hole.
'I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel.'
Maiden's four-year-old brother was at home during the shooting and now he's in a constant state of terror.
'Every time somebody knocks on the door, he runs to the back of the house. He's afraid,' Locklin said.
Cloninger is being held on a charge of serious bodily injury to a child - a first-degree felony that has a sentence of five to 99 years in prison.
Maiden's grandmother is pushing for another charge of attempted murder.
'We don't want him to be on the streets,' she said. 'No matter what charges is, we want him to stay in.'
Attempted murder is a second-degree felony carring a two-to-20-year prison sentence.
Cloninger has a bond hearing set for October 10.
Maiden hopes to be home by Halloween.
'He told his mom, "If that man hadn't done this to me, I wouldn't be here in the hospital,"' Locklin said. 'He hates the hospital.'
EDITED for borked HTML and another source on charges, thanks to Layweed.