Police: 17-Year-Old Tests Gun; Fires In Backyard

[Toumeng]

Incident Could Have Been A Close Call, Neighbors Say

Richard Sharp/KCRA
POSTED: 9:31 pm PST January 26, 2012
UPDATED: 6:51 am PST January 27, 2012

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) -- A 17-year-old bought a gun from a friend and wanted to test it in his backyard, police said Thursday.

But a bullet from the gun went through a neighbor's window, and that neighbor found the bullet in his master bedroom when he came home from work.

“It’s frightening,” Thai Vang said. “Because with kids these days, you don’t know what they are going to do with guns and stuff.”

While Vang and his wife were not in their Meadowview home when the bullet pierced their window, other neighbors heard the gunshot.

Many told KCRA 3 they were very concerned.

“I have a newborn,” said Monica Hernandez, who lives across the street. “That is scary, because I have heard of bullets going through windows when people fire guns in the air.”

Another neighbor was sleeping in a room that faced the backyard from where the bullet came.

“You’re so lucky,” Rachel Marpaung told her mom, Ester. “You were sleeping and your window ... the blinds were open.”
The 17-year-old was taken into custody for firing the gun in his backyard.

Vang doesn't plan on pressing charges, but said he wants the teen to understand his actions could have easily hurt or killed someone.

“I’m very lucky -- me and my wife both.”

Read more: http://www.kcra.com/news/30311630/detail.html#ixzz1kjHv6Xac

[Boost]

Only the Hmong would not press charges.  If it were a white family homie be locked up.  Just sayin. 

[HUNG TU LO]

Only the Hmong would not press charges. If it were a white family homie be locked up.

That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to press charges and show this young man that he fired a gun he thought was unloaded and it could have KILLED someone. That's how our society creates good citizens. Punishment leads to conditioning. So Hmong can lecture their children, nephews, nieces, all day about being good people and staying away from drugs/guns but they won't show that same attitude do an outsider?

If and when Mr. Vang has children (I assume they don't because he didn't mention children) he will take every opportunity to tell them to go to school, to be an upright citizen, to do the right thing, to treat every gun like it's a loaded gun. So why doesn't he take this chance to teach this young man a lesson?

Is he afraid this might create a hostile situation between him and the neighbors? Does he feel that since no injuries occurred, let bygones to bygones? Is he doing it to save face? Whatever the case,  he is hurting this young man more by not pressing additional charges.

[kyrie_eleison]

He could be afraid of retaliation or bad relations with the neighbor.

[MilesDaddy]

that was weeks ago