A 5-year-old Detroit boy was shot in the arm while riding his bicycle outside his home near Fargo-Oakfield Park Tuesday night — struck by a bullet police say was fired at random by a teenager who remains at large. This is what lawlessness looks like when the system refuses to hold the line.
The child's father was right there, supervising his son at around 9 p.m., when he heard three gunshots and watched the boy fall off his bike, according to Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison. The child was released from the hospital late Tuesday night and is expected to recover — a small mercy that papers over the real story: a 15- or 16-year-old was walking around Detroit firing a weapon in a residential neighborhood, and nobody stopped him before he put a round into a kindergartner.
Bettison's response was boilerplate.
