“When 14-year-old Brennan Walker missed the bus and tried to walk to school in Rochester Hills, MI, he got lost and was shot at by a homeowner after he stopped to ask for directions.
According to Fox 2 Detroit, Walker’s mother had taken his phone away, so he decided to knock on a local resident’s door to ask for directions. The woman inside called 911 and said her husband fired at the kid because Brennan was trying to break into their house.
The shooter has now been jailed. Walker was not injured as he ran, hid and then cried.
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“My mom says that black boys get shot because sometimes they don’t look their age, and I don’t look my age. I’m 14; but I don’t look 14. I’m kind of happy that, like, I didn’t become a statistic,” he says in retrospect.
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“Exactly, and that’s exactly how I feel. Like, wow. Because you were trying to get to school,” says his mother, Lisa Wright. “I found out later the only reason [the man] missed is because he forgot to take the safety off.”
Lisa was at work when she got the call. She says her husband is deployed in Syria, so she was assuming the call was about him until she realized they were calling about Brennan.
Investigators told her the family’s Ring doorbell recorded the encounter. When they watched the video with Brennan and his mom, she says it confirmed their suspicions.
“One of the things that stands out, that probably angers me the most is, while I was watching the tape, you can hear the wife say, ‘Why did “these people” choose my house?'” she says, before taking a long pause. “Who are, “these people?” And that set me off. I didn’t want to believe it was what it appeared to look like. When I heard her say that, it was like, but it is [what it looks like].”
Authorities haven’t released that security video.
“We should not have to live in a society where we have to fend for ourselves. If I have a question, I should be able to turn to my village and knock on a door and ask a question. I shouldn’t be fearful of a child, let alone a skin tone,” she adds. “This is a decent neighborhood. If anything — why would I knock on your door to rob you?”
“It is just absurd that this happened,” says Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. “I feel terrible for the young man; I feel terrible for the mom and the anxiety that they had to go through. We are going to ask for every charge permissible for this guy, who stepped up and fired a shotgun because someone knocked on his door.”
The shooter is being held at the Oakland County Jail. He’s expected to be arraigned sometime on Friday.
Sources tell FOX 2 Detroit the 53-year-old Rochester Hills man is a retired Detroit firefighter.
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