David Acker, 16, died while visiting a friend’s home, when a gun held by a female teen fired, killing him. The shooter has now been charged with manslaughter in juvenile court. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber spoke with David’s mother, Veronica Acker, about the case and what she hopes to see happen next.
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I NEED MORE CONTEXT, SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA LEASING INTO TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, CONDOLENCES 🙏
Why would he bring it loaded ???
If Americans didn't have weapons at home, these incidents would NOT happen. They say the lad was the clue of the family lol if a child is the only person that holds a family together then there is something seriously wrong with this family.
No one wants to take responsibility for their child’s actions anymore. Why did he possess a gun at that age and why did the mother not know about it. You have a duty as a parent to know what your children are involved with. This is NOT 100% on the girl who discharged that firearm. Did he even ask HER parents if he could bring a gun into THEIR home???? This grieving mother is placing blame where it shouldn’t be. Take some responsibility for your own child’s actions and acknowledge your mistakes.
He bought a loaded gun to their house. 90% of this is his fault. This is not victim blaming its the truth. Theres a difference between book smart and street smart. Playing with a gun and pointing at each isn't smart at all.
7:48 omg. Her tears broke my heart ..
Kids are curious they don’t understand gun safety and something like this happens – but that girl totally knew what she was doing and deliberately killed my son 🙄
Your 16-year-old son has a handgun which he is treating like a toy, you don’t even know if your son is dating this girl you have to ask detectives about that, and when bad things happen of course it is somebody else’s fault. I think you raised your son to have the attitude that got him killed.
This is what happens when you dont teach proper and basic firearm safety and are scared of guns as a society.
Why does a 16 year old have a gun?
Sending prayers for the family 🙏🏼 R.I.P
Something seems off in this one
I’m sorry, but if I was the mom, I will understand OK my son had a gun he wasn’t supposed to he was playing with it and it accidentally went off. Nobody actually truly tried to kill my son and my son didn’t have the gun and didn’t bring it over there he will still be alive. I should’ve been in my son’s life way moredamn well he shouldn’t have a gun at all
She said kids don’t know gun safety but she saying that the girl knew and shot him on purpose, she doesn’t make any sense tbh. But I do think kids make mistakes )): 😢 hope she heals and her family is well. ): RIP DAVID.
Guns 100% kill people, you’d think she’d understand that after her son took one from her house without her knowledge and it ended in his death…
A foolish and avoidable tragedy. The victim is as at fault as the child who held the gun though. Frankly the mother is at fault, why did he have access to a gun?
I think Jesse should ask the mother tougher questions about the gun.
People would never play with guns if we taught real gun safety to everyone.
If i were on the jury, i would have to say not guilty, because of this mothers negligence in not knowing her son had a gun. I am sure if this girl had not shot him, he would have done it to some one else. I think it was an accident, these parents dont know what their children are doing its a sad case
OMGosh! Put those parents in prison! Lock up your darn guns people!
If kids don’t know the danger of guns then why blame the shooter who also by that standard neither was girl?
Play with fire and you may get burned. So, no concern of how he obtained the weapon? I would say since he was an aspiring "rapper" that he got influenced by the culture. Life is not a game or a rap video, one wrong move like this and it's lights out. I hope others learn from this.
She thinks she's a star now!
The girl should not be charged she is not guilty of manslaughter! It’s his fault for bringing the gun in the first place it’s very unfortunate but it’s a hard lesson to learn