Tennessee teen shoots family for waking him up for school

[lego 44,165]

Sure, many schools start too early. And, sure, getting out of bed can be hard sometimes.

But one Tennessee teenager had an extreme reaction to his family’s request on Tuesday morning that he get up and get ready for school: He shot them, according to Nashville police.

The teen, who has not been publicly identified, became angry when his grandmother, Earline Hill, and mother, Sheryl Williams, told him to get his day going, police said in a statement. He threatened the pair and then retrieved a handgun no one knew he had before firing multiple shots in the family apartment, police said.

“There was a quarrel about getting up and getting ready for the day when [at some point] the 16-year-old ran to a closet, got a 9 mm handgun and started firing,” Nashville police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said, according to the Tennessean.

Hill, 67, was struck at least twice, while the teen’s 12-year-old sister and 6-year-old nephew received graze wounds, according to the police statement. The teen’s 42-year-old mother, Williams, and his teen’s 2-year-old sister were not injured. None of the wounds are life-threatening, police said.

After the shooting, the teen left, dropped the gun off at a nearby apartment and was captured soon after, near some railroad tracks, police said. He was charged with four counts of attempted homicide and one count of reckless endangerment.

Most schools start too early for teenagers’s unique sleep rhythms, doctors say.

Five out of six middle schools and high schools in the United States start before 8:30 a.m., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last summer.

As The Post’s Emma Brown noted when the CDC’s report was released

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that schools start later than 8:30 a.m. to help teens avoid becoming chronically sleep-deprived and exhausted. Adolescents need between 8.5 hours and 9.5 hours of sleep each night, but their natural sleep rhythms make it hard for them to fall asleep before 11 p.m., according to the academy.

Research has shown that teens who get too little sleep are more likely to be overweight or depressed, and they are more likely to perform poorly in school and to experiment with tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.

http://antiguaobserver.com/tennessee-teen-shoots-family-due-to-their-request-that-he-get-up-and-go-to-school/

 

[LePetitGAGABLover 21,234]

 America needs a reality check ASAP.

[eifulien 3,044]

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, AMERICA?  And this happens when a legislation is being passed to allow children to posses weapons.  

My desire to visit this country some day is dying each day, even for a holiday. 

[Phoenix 17,395]

Why do people have weapons in their homes, I will never understand. It's never good. I don't care if it's legal, don't bring it into house, bye. 

[OBEY 57,109]

Thank god i don't live in this country.

If i would i would move out ASAP.

[Janet 1,417]

America.

Check yourself b4 you wreck yourself.

Get your sh.t together babe.

Sincerely, 

The rest of the world

[Neight Shayde 7,925]

COME ON, AMERICA.

[KURUSHITOVSKA 20,451]

seriously what's wrong in people's brains.... 

 

 

[lego 44,165]

Why are guys liking these news?  

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

So like If I moved to LA, would this be a thing? Or nah?

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

I get grumpy in the morning too

[artRaver 3,188]

Oh wow, I thought I was bad for crying and then pretending to be my mom to call out of school, but nope, there's people out here actually shooting their family because they don't want to go to school. 

[MJHolland 12,725]

I find it funny that users here think that a teenager who was unstable enough to shoot his entire family wouldn't just stab them in their sleep if guns weren't an option.

The problem is not with guns. It is with mental health.

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

16 minutes ago, MJHolland said:

I find it funny that users here think that a teenager who was unstable enough to shoot his entire family wouldn't just stab them in their sleep if guns weren't an option.

The problem is not with guns. It is with mental health.

It's BOTH!   

[MJHolland 12,725]

Just now, En_Sabah_Nur said:

It's BOTH!   

If we took every single gun magically out of America, you'd still have incidents like this with knives and the other infinite amount of weapons you can make from everyday objects, including homemade pipe bombs like in California.

If we magically took away every mentally ill person in America, you wouldn't have senseless acts of violence like this.

So tell me again how it's "BOTH! ".