A 13-year-old Detroit boy shot his father in the back Tuesday after being disciplined, then fled in the family SUV with the dog — another fruit of the welfare state's long war on the nuclear family.
Detroit police say the shooting happened around 5 p.m. on Bretton Drive, in the city's 8th Precinct. The father had disciplined the teen, who took offense. When the father returned home, his own son allegedly shot him in the back, grabbed the family's gray 2026 Rivian, loaded up the French mastiff, and headed south on the Southfield Freeway toward Lincoln Park. Police are searching for the boy, describing him as armed and dangerous.
Commanding officer Dietrich Lever put it plainly: the shooting "appears to have followed an incident involving discipline." The teen "allegedly took offense when his father disciplined him and then shot him when the father returned home."
The father's condition hasn't been released. Police don't yet know where the boy got the gun.
WDIV covered the facts straight. CBS News, covering a separate Detroit shooting the same day on the east side, buried the discipline angle entirely — typical for an establishment press that treats family collapse as weather, not policy.
This is what decades of welfare expansion and the deliberate erosion of paternal authority produce. A father tries to correct his son, and the son shoots him for it. The press will call it a tragedy. Dissenter calls it the logical outcome of a culture that has spent sixty years marginalizing fathers, subsidizing single-parent households, and teaching children that authority — especially paternal authority — is illegitimate.
The same day, 300 miles west in DeKalb, another illustration of the system's failures: Keshawn M. Dunn, 24, was charged with shooting a woman in an apartment parking lot while children ran from the gunfire. Dunn was on parole at the time — sentenced to six years in January for a Class X felony drug bust, but credited with 942 days served and released back onto the street. Shaw Local reported the facts; the system that turned him loose early goes unexamined.
A DeKalb County judge at least denied Dunn pretrial release this time. He faces up to 30 years if convicted on the aggravated battery with a firearm charge — one of four Class X felonies he's now charged with, along with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
Meanwhile, in Rialto, California, bodycam footage shows an officer saving a choking 3-year-old with a LifeVac device. KABC covered it as a feel-good cop story. It is that — but it's also a reminder of what law enforcement looks like when the focus is protecting the innocent, not managing the fallout from social policy that manufactures broken homes.
Detroit police urge anyone who spots the 13-year-old or the Rivian, plate FAX 8251, to call 911 immediately and not approach the vehicle.
The question nobody in the press will ask: how many more sons will shoot their fathers before this country reckons with what it has done to the American family?
