One mother gets the scare of her life:
A 5-year-old Queens boy arrived home from kindergarten with a little something extra in his backpack - a loaded handgun, police said yesterday. Another kindergartner had given the .45-caliber semiautomatic to little Christian Park at Public School 16 in Corona on Wednesday."He said, 'Give it back to me tomorrow,'" Christian told the Daily News. "I put it in the bag."
Christian's mother, 29-year-old Eloisa Marquez, assumed the silver gun was a toy when she spotted it in her youngest son's black backpack. "When I touched it, I realized it was real," she said. Marquez immediately called the school and police, who yesterday arrested the father of the boy who brought the weapon to school.
Tesfari Davis, 25, of Corona, was charged with three counts of criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. His son, also named Tesfari Davis, was given an in-school suspension, officials said.
Tesfari Davis, Sr, deserves to be slapped with much worse charges than that (can we make utter stupidity a felony and bar him from having more kids?). Tesfari Davis, Jr., deserves a new father. And Eloisa Marquez deserves kudos for being attentive enough to go through her kid's backpack and smart enough to notify the school and the police.
Posted by kswygert at May 21, 2005 11:20 AM