One-Year-Old Shot and Killed in Brooklyn

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Max Rivlin-Nadler

09/02/13 10:58AM

Filed to: Tragedy

A one-year-old was shot in the head and killed Sunday night after a gunman allegedly attempted to shoot the toddler's father.

Antiq Hennis was in a stroller being pushed across the street by his parents in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, when a single bullet struck his head just a block from the family's home. The child's father began looking for help after the shots rang out.

“He was screaming ‘My baby got shot.’ He was going crazy,” Gina Gamboa, 22, told the Daily News. “The baby was breathing, but his eyes were closed. It’s crazy. They just will start shooting."

Four shots were fired at around 7:30 P.M. Only Antiq was hit. He was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital shortly before 9 P.M.

Antiq's father, the intended target, has a record of more than 20 arrests. “They shot at him and ended up shooting the baby,” the child's great-uncle, Chris Dobson said.

This follows another incident last week where a toddler was also shot in the head in Brooklyn. Luckily, that child survived.

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MamaMiaItsaMea Max Rivlin-Nadler 09/02/13 11:05AM

I know I'm going to get flamed for this but you need to choose your parenting partner wisely. This guy had 20 arrests and his kid paid the horrible price. Don't fuck losers and expect their past to just magically disappear.

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JackalopeDance MamaMiaItsaMea 09/02/13 11:13AM

I completely agree!

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JohnMcClanesSmirk MamaMiaItsaMea 09/02/13 11:13AM

What a morally fatuous thing to say. Thanks for your petty sermonizing of senseless violence.

Your objection to women having sexual encounters with men who have long arrest records and the inherent immorality of not aborting the product of said sexual encounters is duly fucking noted.

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Bostonistoodamncold JohnMcClanesSmirk 09/02/13 11:15AM

Yeah, because the baby had control of whose sperm he was made from. And isn't this victim-blaming?

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Who_BobJones MamaMiaItsaMea 09/02/13 11:16AM

Not to flame you, but did you even bother to take into account the idea that perhaps the guy was trying to turn his life around? Twenty arrests is a lot, yeah, but shouldn't everybody (responsible enough) have a chance at starting a family? I mean, even from the description ("Antiq Hennis was in a stroller being pushed across the street by his parents in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn") it seems as if the father was just trying to live a somewhat normal life.

I myself could be wrong here, but I think it's a little much to jump to the conclusion that he's just some "loser" that has been through the system far too many times.

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YoutellGee's Max Rivlin-Nadler 09/02/13 11:05AM

Also I'd like to point out that if we ban guns, I'm sure that the shooter who almost certainly acquired his gun illegally will turn it in because you know if they are illgale no one will use them and all of these sad incidents will go away.

It's like that time we banned drugs and no one got high, ever, ever

The end.

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Crestfallen Commenter YoutellGee's 09/02/13 11:08AM

Obviously banning guns wouldn't really help in this case as the gunman meant to kill somebody. I do think, though, that banning guns would decrease the amount of idiots shooting others, the amount of kids picking up guns, and the occasional deaths at the hands of police who panicked when they thought someone had a gun and aforementioned person didn't.

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EatTheCheeseNicholson YoutellGee's 09/02/13 11:12AM

Realistically, in America, it is probably too late too ban guns. That ship has sailed. But what I would really like is for people to stop claiming that we're all safer because of it.

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Graymyas Leigh YoutellGee's 09/02/13 11:35AM

All guns were 'legal' at one point, bubbyboy.

YoutellGee's Crestfallen Commenter 09/02/13 11:43AM

You are so right sir, no where in the united states of america do citizens who own guns legally save either them self's or others from harm.

This has never ever happened and of course doesn't vastly outweigh the amount of unfortunate incidents, it's not like you can youtube "people saved by guns" and find countless reports of people saved by there privately owned guns and that's not even half of them because most incidents don't get reported EG muggings defused by the sight of the gun and the criminal runs away, the shooter in question has nothing really to report and so why waste police time with "A guy dressed in black may be mugging people at night"

So yeah if you think overall the US will be safer by banning guns (also you'd get the money and manpower to recall all these guns how?)I'd like to see some statistcal proof oh wait you have none you all just surround one incident and remove any form of responsibility and blame the gun for the actions of people which last time I checked people still do really stupid things without guns >.>

Let me give you an example of where this logic gets you

The couple in question tried to sue the company that made the blind in question because some how they should know that the cord was going to be in a toddlers room next to a step stool.

There is no way that they could have put a rope tie in so it did not hang loose, that would be stupid, clearly that company is responsible.

Guess what there will never be a world where people don't do stupid things that result in the death of others, so check and see if the amount of people saved by banning guns out ways the amount of self defense incidents, hell I doubt it out ways said incidents in which the owner doesn't even fire a shot which is very common because guess what known criminals can't get guns because background checks exist. an have for years...

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ranoosh Max Rivlin-Nadler 09/02/13 11:43AM

How about instead of blaming the gun lobby (which I don't support at all), people blame the actual shooter? He saw the baby with the father but shot anyways. There is something wrong with that way of thinking and that needs to be addressed as much as the 2nd amendment.

DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTina ranoosh 09/02/13 02:06PM

I'm wondering what the shooter's gang will do to him. And, yes, I'm inferring, in that, that he belongs to one, and so does or did the target, given the target's staggering 20+ arrests, and the shooter having a "street name." They're not going to like this any more than anyone else does.

singsangsung ranoosh 09/02/13 05:19PM

Anytime anything tragic happens, people need to twist it so they can believe it would never happen to them. Only BAD people have bad things happen to them, you see.

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psychomagnet ranoosh 09/02/13 07:08PM

I believe we all do blame the shooter too, kinda goes without saying.

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GeorgeTheMan Max Rivlin-Nadler 09/02/13 11:25AM

From the moment he was named, he was destined to be history.

DiLeMma GeorgeTheMan 09/03/13 03:52AM

I know... I couldn't get over how shit that name is.

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JohnMcClanesSmirk GeorgeTheMan 09/04/13 01:59AM

Okay, so you're joke has been cracking me up for the past 24 hours and I fucking hate myself for it. Just thought I'd share that with you.