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PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - A ten-year-old boy left home alone with his sister used his mother's gun to shoot an intruder in the face, police said.

Late Tuesday, West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies received a call to a Port Allen apartment complex after several shots rang out from inside one of the apartments. "You are out here trying to work and for someone to come and do that and invade your home is very hard," the children's mother said. She asked to not be identified.

Deputies say Dean Favron and Roderick Porter knocked several times on the apartment door. The two young children, a ten-year-old boy and eight-year-old girl, stood on the other side, terrified. "He told his sister to be quiet and seconds later, they started kicking on the door and finally kicked the door in," said Sheriff Mike Cazes. The two children ran to their mother's bedroom closet.

In a panic, the ten-year-old grabbed his mother's gun for protection. "He did what I told him to do. I never told him to get the gun, but thank God he did," she said. Once the two suspects opened the door, threatening the kids, deputies say the boy fired a bullet into the lip of Roderick Porter. The two men were taken to the hospital by a third suspect, who is a 15-year-old juvenile. Once they got to the hospital, they were later arrested. "It's just hard. I don't understand why they would do that. I know they have little brothers and sisters and they wouldn't want anyone to break into their house," said the mother.

Each man is held on $150,000 bond. The juvenile, was taken to a local detention center. One of the suspects, Dean Favron, just finished serving almost seven years in prison for aggravated assault on a Baton Rouge police officer and two carjacking charges. He was released on June 6th.

Both men will appear before a judge next month.

Nice job protecting yourself and your sister, kid.

It's worked out well in this case, but surely with kids that young around, any firearms should be inaccessible to them?

ShanwickOceanic wrote:It's worked out well in this case, but surely with kids that young around, any firearms should be inaccessible to them?

Yeah (10 year-old), unless they have been trained to have them around, are of the highest level of maturity for their age, are fully aware of the consequences, and have the highest respect for the sanctity and preciousness of life. The best way to teach them the latter is to harvest an animal when you take them hunting.

ShanwickOceanic wrote:It's worked out well in this case, but surely with kids that young around, any firearms should be inaccessible to them?

Yes and no. Depends on the kids maturity. I was 9 when my dad bought a handgun and put it in the drawer to protect us (we lived in Puerto Rico at the time). My dad showed it to me and taught me how to fire it. He also said that anytime I wanted I could look at it or practice firing it as long as he was around. He said If I were to touch it when he was absent he would never trust me again.

I never touched it without him.


Some kids would be different though.

The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

That was my initial thought. A 10 year old probably should not be home alone.

Cadet57 wrote:

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

That was my initial thought. A 10 year old probably should not be home alone.

Depends on how good they are with the gun.

I've found that some youngsters are very street smart and very mature for their age-typically in rough areas, this kid appeared to be the same, thank God he knew what he was doing (or did he?) and didn't hurt himself.

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

My Mother. Who worked 2 jobs to raise 7 kids when Pop vaporized in 1969. It's no problem if you've been raised properly.



Glad the kids are ok. concerned there was such easy access to a weapon . . . a loaded weapon . . . bad, BAD call. Nothing withstanding.

Now, if this were MiamiAir's son, or bhmbaglocks son, familiar with a weapon, TRAINED . . . key word there . . . then perhaps some mitigation. Otherwise, it's a non-starter.

Cadet57 wrote:

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

That was my initial thought. A 10 year old probably should not be home alone.

Why not? I was 10 years old babysitting my little sister who was 4. Where's the issue?

ShanwickOceanic wrote:surely with kids that young around, any firearms should be inaccessible to them?

In Port Allen, it's pretty much necessary that they be accessible to them .....it's not the safest area around.

ANCFlyer wrote:

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

My Mother. Who worked 2 jobs to raise 7 kids when Pop vaporized in 1969. It's no problem if you've been raised properly.

Same for me as a kid. Dad working, mother working, we got a key for our flat and were told to behave when we came home from school. Standard practice in the 1970s in Germany.

Jan

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

So she should sit on her ass at home, not work and be on the dole? No small wonder this country is as screwed up as it is. Maybe she can't afford day-care, but can work and hold her own. I applaud her for that. After 4th grade, I was on my own in the summers. Were my parents bad? No.

If that were to happen in my house, my son is screwed; all our firearms are locked in a safe. I can't say that the mom did the wisest thing allowing her son access to a firearm, but all's well that end's well.

I know, I know, if the kid hadn't had done what he did, who knows what would have happened, another tragic case of homicide/home invasion. As Stalin said, "...A tragedy..."

BlueLion wrote:The most oblivious question, I have is who leaves their 10 year old and 8 year old alone at home, while you're working? Then again this probably took place is some lower than low income area, she works at a minimum wage job. I'm thinking a visit from Child Protective Services is in this mother's future.

When my grandfather abandoned my grandmother, she was left to raise seven children on her own, which she did by leaving the older children in charge of the younger, and going to work. Imagine the concept.

Everyone lived, no one ended up in jail, and my grandmother didn't go on the dole. Of course, there wasn't much of a robust welfare system in 1934, so she really had no other choice.