A son and mother who were accused of fatally shooting a man at a hot dog stand in Chicago have had all charges dropped against them.
Prosecutors dropped murder charges against a 14-year-old boy and his mother accused of fatally shooting a man at a hot dog stand in Chicago. Originally, prosecutors said the mother, Carlishia Hood, instructed her son to bring a gun from their vehicle into a restaurant and shoot one of the patrons who had attacked her. Both Hood and her son turned themselves in. Hood was being held on a $3 million bond.
A video making the rounds on social media appears to show the moments leading up to the shooting, when the man who was killed is seen swinging at Hood three times. Prosecutors had claimed the mother told her son to keep shooting the man, even as the man ran from the hot dog stand into the parking lot. Over the weekend, many on social media expressed outrage over the incident and support online for the 14-year-old's actions.
Marsha Levick from Philadelphia's Juvenile Law Center says the law draws a distinction between children and adults. Several Supreme Court decisions have softened the legal system's view of minors. Most recently, Miller v. Alabama found children are constitutionally different from adults, and that has to be considered during sentencing.
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