Detroit plays tough in accidental shootings involving kids
DETROIT — The father raced to the bedroom, cried out and punched the walls.
“Oh, my God. What did y’all do?” he screamed.
Christopher Head found his 9-year-old son, Daylen, dead in a bedroom in the west-side Detroit home, a single shotgun blast to the boy’s head. He’d been playing video games, according to police reports. Christopher Head didn’t pull the trigger, but he would soon be the one going to prison.
No U.S. city has seen as many young children die in gun accidents as Detroit. And no other court system has dealt out sentences as severe for the grown-ups who were involved.