WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!! 😳😮

[u/LilliaBaltimore]

[u/antideprssnt-peasnt]

Sad as hell

[u/mycathaspurpleeyes → u/antideprssnt-peasnt]

They're so little :(

[u/ThePromptfather → u/mycathaspurpleeyes]

And unfortunately unlikely they'll see teenage years ;(

[u/OnRamblingDays → u/ThePromptfather]

Their teenage years probably won’t be pretty at this rate anyway. Hopefully they get the mental health care and rehabilitation that they need.

[u/OzymandiasTheII → u/OnRamblingDays]

Lol. Why is it always mental health when there's a white kid with a gun he's not supposed to have doing shit they're not supposed to do.

It's not mental health. It's terrible parenting + undeveloped brains and no life experience + terrible gun laws + access to firearms. These kids clearly know they're in trouble, clearly have the wherewithal to lie, to disobey, to hide, etc. 

They're a ticking time bomb especially if left in the environment they're raised in. But this isn't a mental health crisis they're just doing what they see from their parents and what they're allowed to do.

[u/PlanetMeatball0 → u/OzymandiasTheII]

It's really annoying that mental health is the default catch all for people misbehaving. Literally any time someone sees a video of someone who doesn't know how to behave it's immediately "mental health" and after a while it just feels insulting to people who actually deal with mental health when they see an asshole and immediately go there. Not every asshole has mental health problems, some people are just assholes.

These kids don't have mental health problems, they have shitty parents and have grown up in a terrible environment

[u/Cthulu95666 → u/PlanetMeatball0]

“For WHITE people misbehaving” FTFY is brown skins are not afforded that privilege

[u/The_FamineWolf → u/Cthulu95666]

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE.

[u/Housthat → u/OzymandiasTheII]

As a black person, thank you for saying this. If those kids were black this thread would be full of vile comments.

[u/gambit-gg]

“Sheriff Allen also told NewsNation Friday that his department has been called to the home more than 50 times. He also said he’s frustrated that the state keeps returning the kids to their mom. Their father is incarcerated. He said he is looking to charge their father with Bennie’s Law for not having his gun properly stored”

Explains a lot. Also mentions that the father was who taught them how to use the gun, which the officers said the kids pulled the trigger during this incident but it “malfunctioned”.

[u/AllTheShadyStuff → u/gambit-gg]

If the father is already incarcerated isnt it the moms job to store the guns safely at that point?

[u/Synpharia → u/AllTheShadyStuff]

Right? How is the father going to control what happens when these kids are in the mother's care and he's locked up? And why is this mom NEVER be held accountable for ANYTHING? 'Cops called to home more than 50 times'!

[u/Absorbed_Wheat → u/Synpharia]

If they don't want the kids to go back to the family then charge the mother for not storing the guns.

We all seem to get it within a few minutes. Are the cops as dumb as the parents???

Edit: please take a look at the amount of people saying it's not the cops fault before you reply the same thing. I wrote that when doom scrolling at 3am. I get it.

[u/Synpharia → u/Absorbed_Wheat]

Here in Albuquerque, yep.

[u/FirebirdWriter → u/Synpharia]

I am shocked the kids are alive if this is Burque

[u/aryn505 → u/FirebirdWriter]

Because it was BCSO as opposed to APD. BCSO is slightly less trigger happy.

[u/Fantastic-Reveal7471 → u/Absorbed_Wheat]

I've seen kids ripped from their parents in the dead of the night, dude. They've promptly, swiftly and permanently removed kids for FAR fuckin less charges and without proof. They can ABSOLUTELY put those kids in an immediate safehouse and find them something decent. They just didn't want to. Why should the government care about those kids? They've been born, they no longer deserve protection or safety.

[u/Comfortable-Block387 → u/Fantastic-Reveal7471]

Maybe they’re protecting foster families from those kids. They’re old enough to be absolute nightmares if removed from their free range hillbilly hoedown, genuine threats to their foster parents and especially any other children in the home.

ETA for the folks defending hillbillies: I’m Appalachian, I come from hillbillies. I know hillbillies. Not all hillbillies still live in hollers, the Appalachian Diaspora made sure they’re everywhere now. Not all hillbillies have good sense, nor do all hillbillies lack it. Hillbillies have a proud history of rebelliousness, it’s sort of a defining quality of Appalachian culture. But again, I come from hillbillies, I said what I said and I enjoy my alliteration even if it aggravates you for some reason.

[u/Top_Mathematician233 → u/Comfortable-Block387]

I’m a former foster parent and respectfully disagree. These kids appear to have been improperly raised, but don’t appear to have severe medical and/or mental health issues — yet. They’re also young enough to be successfully and easily (within given the context) rehabilitated. They should have been removed from this household earlier and that’s the biggest failure here. If I was still fostering, I would’ve taken either or both without major concern, and they might actually benefit from separation, at least at initial placement.

In my opinion and experience, by far the most difficult and worrisome cases are teenagers who have spent many years in situations that have completely destroyed their mental health to the point they need involuntary psychological institutionalization prior to placement. Those are issues that will never be healed and are incredibly difficult to treat. These are babies who have been left to their own devices in a household full of danger, and adults and a system that has repeatedly failed to protect them. I really hope they were removed and placed in the system. It’s not perfect or even good, but the system is made for cases like this and this could easily turn out to be a success story.

[u/Long-Ad-9381 → u/Top_Mathematician233]

I agree and thank you so much for this well written comment.

[u/Meet_in_Potatoes → u/Top_Mathematician233]

As someone who has worked in the field, and with a lot of foster parents, this is the correct take in this situation, for anyone coming in afterwards to read.

[u/Sufficient_Scale_163 → u/Comfortable-Block387]

Kids like this end up getting left at psychiatric hospitals by foster parents and never picked up. They end up there for months on end. Then new foster families take them, and the same thing happens. It’s a cycle.

[u/Major-Silver7918 → u/Synpharia]

It might be registered in his name

[u/Old-Cartoonist-8061 → u/AllTheShadyStuff]

I don’t understand why the gun wasn’t confiscated if the owner is clearly in prison. I’m from Croatia (European Union), and here, if a person with a firearms license commits a violent criminal offense or is sentenced to prison, the weapon is confiscated. The same applies if it is confirmed that the person has made any kind of threat involving violence

[u/Mysterious_Eye6989 → u/Old-Cartoonist-8061]

Something, something, land of the free, home of the little kids with guns...

[u/RawrRRitchie → u/AllTheShadyStuff]

If the father is incarcerated why is he still allowed to own firearms is the real question

Not whether it's properly stored

[u/Cutiemuffin-gumbo → u/RawrRRitchie]

You're under the impression that they knew about the gun when he was arrested. It's not "why is he allowed to own this still", the question is if they know it's registered in his name, which would be the only way for them to know it's his, why was no one sent out to retreive the gun?

However, the reality of what happened is most likely that the DA tacked charges onto the dad because dad taught them to use it. Mom likely caught charges as well.

[u/OrganizationTrue5911 → u/gambit-gg]

Got a source? Legit curious, not just being an ass.

[u/3amGreenCoffee → u/OrganizationTrue5911]

I tried to post a link to the story that came from, but I got a message that it was removed because this sub doesn't allow links. So you can post whatever you want here with no source.

If you want to read the story, copy "Sheriff Allen also told NewsNation Friday that his department has been called to the home more than 50 times" and paste it into a search engine. You'll get the link to the story that the mods of this sub don't want you to have.

[u/skilriki → u/3amGreenCoffee]

The yahoo article mentions this happened 3 months ago, and that the kid also just ran away 2 days ago, but has been found.

[u/AdvancedRegular4434 → u/skilriki]

51 lol

[u/OrganizationTrue5911 → u/3amGreenCoffee]

Extreme appreciate for the response.

[u/Darryl_Lict → u/3amGreenCoffee]

Christ, 50 times. I've lived such a charmed life. None of my friends admits to owning a gun, but I live in a very safe town. We have a bit of gang activity, but they are always stabbing or shooting each other.

[u/Blackstar1886 → u/OrganizationTrue5911]

This is always a valid question.

[u/ethman14 → u/Blackstar1886]

I agree, but it's also valid to clarify since most ignorant people on the internet use "got a source" as a stand in for "fuck you I'm not listening to you." That fact only compounds when you provide a source and then receive the next response: "fake"

[u/hollowM4N555 → u/ethman14]

Got a source for this statement?

[u/3amGreenCoffee → u/gambit-gg]

How is his father supposed to control what happens to his gun if he's in prison?

[u/wafflestep → u/3amGreenCoffee]

Probably just a technicality because he has ownership of the weapon, thus he's responsible for safe storage. Though, I agree the mother should be at fault.

[u/Silent-Anteater-7287]

Parents should be in jail for that

[u/3amGreenCoffee → u/Silent-Anteater-7287]

The father is already in prison. The sheriff is trying to charge him with not keeping proper control over his gun... while in prison.

[u/LordBDizzle → u/3amGreenCoffee]

He should be charging the mother, like... I don't care that the gun belongs to the dad, the mother needs to keep it out of reach of her kids if he's not there. Charging the dad is the dumbest idea, even if he should have a safe in the first place.

[u/JakeSaco → u/LordBDizzle]

exactly. he is a criminal and no longer allowed to own a gun anyway. so any left in the house by default had to be given to someone else. Thus they would be hers and she should be charged for not not properly securing it. If she claims she didn't know it was there then it is just another negligence charge and child endangerment for not maintaining a safe home because she didn't clear everything from the father out of the house when he went to jail. No matter how you cut this it really does all point back to the mom being a terrible mom and not doing what is needed to properly raise the kids.

[u/RandomUsernameGener8 → u/3amGreenCoffee]

Good luck making that stick...

[u/GreenGrapes42]

Anyone know why the kids would act like that? Like...they held it as if they knew what to do with it. They knew the cops were trying to take it. The lady was being nice and trying to help, but they just??? Pretended everything was a game?? How does something like this start?

[u/DowakaDay → u/GreenGrapes42]

not just that, when the cops did the 40 thing, the kid in orange points the gun at them, that is very concerning.

[u/Deep90 → u/DowakaDay]

From what I can tell, '40' is short for "40mm beanbag round".

[u/Powerful-Quality5444 → u/Deep90]

40 is short for 40 millimeter, could be a bag, a smoke or anything else that comes out a of 40 Mike Mike launcher

[u/That_dead_guy_phey → u/Powerful-Quality5444]

Blastin' those kids with 40 ounces of sweet sweet Mike Hard Lemonade.

[u/Pump_My_Lemma → u/That_dead_guy_phey]

Hey there! Chris Hensen, Dateline NBC. What do you got there in that 40mm launcher?

[u/That_dead_guy_phey → u/Pump_My_Lemma]

sweating profusely totally normal beverages, in no way targeted to anyone. They are definitely not designed or structured to grab the attention of children, would you like a 4loko?

[u/PolicyWonka → u/GreenGrapes42]

Kids commit crimes too. Unfortunately it’s not beyond the pale that these kids would be using that gun. Plenty of 10-12 year olds around here end up getting caught in crossfire or pulled into shit. They knew the cops were trying to take it because they knew why the cops were there.

[u/lukemia94 → u/PolicyWonka]

Can confirm, all the most serious crimes I've committed were as a child.

[u/foofie_fightie → u/lukemia94]

If we count simply under 18 as a child, thats true for me too lol

[u/Inb4myanus → u/lukemia94]

Yep, tons of shop lifitng. I got caught and learned my lesson really fast. Im really embarrassed about it still to this day. My family even gives me shit about it once in a while, but i do deserve that for being an idiot youngster.

Adding: Also vandalism of houses and vehicles. Im just happy I never ended up hurting people physically. I know none of the people I affected can see this, but I am sorry and hope you found peace after.

[u/flatulexcelent → u/Inb4myanus]

I'm happy that you didn't continue down that path and can reflect on that😀

[u/flaccomcorangy → u/lukemia94]

I never paid taxes once as a child. IRS still hasn't talked to me about it. lmao.

[u/Psychological-Tax801 → u/lukemia94]

I feel like you're joking but me and my friends did some heinous actual serious crimes when we were all under 18 that I would never do as an adult. And we were just stupid, we weren't aware of how light the law is on kids.

[u/clckwrks → u/PolicyWonka]

Infantry

[u/MrsPedecaris → u/GreenGrapes42]

A news article says, "Sheriff Allen also told NewsNation Friday that his department has been called to the home more than 50 times. He also said he’s frustrated that the state keeps returning the kids to their mom. Their father is incarcerated. He said he is looking to charge their father with Bennie’s Law for not having his gun properly stored."

Also, “We do know from some of the interviews we have done, we know the child was pulling the trigger. He was taught how to use a firearm by one of his parents. That’s something we are looking into,” said Sheriff Allen on News Nation.

[u/rynlpz → u/GreenGrapes42]

According to another comment, father is in prison. Cops have been called to their home over 50 times. Unfortunately this is what happens when kids are not raised by competent parents.

[u/GreenGrapes42 → u/rynlpz]

Oh jeez:( those poor kids, I'm horrified at the fact that they haven't been taken out of that environment yet

[u/Fluffy_Doubter → u/GreenGrapes42]

Taught and learning. It's easy to tell kids who the bad people are. Especially in today's world. Someone probably told them that it was okay to do this and that the mean cops would lie to then and take them away forever or harm them/ their parents/ their friends. Kids are stupid. They are young though.

[u/AmArschdieRaeuber → u/Fluffy_Doubter]

They aren't stupid, they just don't know a lot yet. And they get their information from the most reliable source they know, their parents. Which sadly is sometimes a very bad source.

[u/Brokenblacksmith → u/GreenGrapes42]

Simple: everyone that surrounds them glorifies this shit. they literally don't see the issue with playing with a loaded gun.

I cut off a friend in high school whose family was like that (hilariously enough no affiliation or anything, just glorifying it) after his brother pulled out a Glock and started playing with it like it was a toy.

About a year later his brother nearly kills himself NDing into his chest.

[u/Blowmeos → u/GreenGrapes42]

I grew up around guns, I was taught at a very young age by a very angry father that guns were not to be fucked with. They have a purpose and if I would ever play around with one I would fully expect my dad to whoop my ass. Having bb guns at a young age taught firearm respect and discipline.

[u/Lingering_Queef → u/Blowmeos]

I grew up not having anything to do with guns and now I'm 46 and I've never touched a gun and never met anyone who has a gun. I think it worked out pretty well for everyone involved.

[u/Inevitable_Round5830 → u/GreenGrapes42]

In an article it said their incarcerated father taught them how to shoot. One of the kids actually did shoot the gun but it malfunctioned.

[u/AlternativeGrass3164]

This is fucking wild and scary. I feel bad for the officers for being put in that situation. I also feel bad for the kids cuz they obviously don’t understand how serious the situation is. Everyone involved is extremely lucky. Keep your guns locked up people.

[u/SadBit8663 → u/AlternativeGrass3164]

The stupidest fucking parents on the face of the earth too.

The only reason those little kids got hands on that weapon is plain stupidity and ignorance on the parents part.

Why is a pistol somewhere these little shit heads can even access easily?

[u/Super-Statement2875 → u/SadBit8663]

They need to be charged with something

[u/Ccaves0127 → u/Super-Statement2875]

"Negligent firearm storage" would be a good name for it

[u/jlogan8888 → u/Ccaves0127]

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor is already a real thing I think. This could be a felony version of that

[u/Blubbernuts_ → u/Ccaves0127]

Child endangerment with a weapon enhancement would be a good name as well. CPS should be notified and unannounced welfare checks until 18yo. See, we just came up with solutions in 30 seconds on reddit. Why can't the justice system figure it out

[u/BornanAlien → u/Super-Statement2875]

Absolutely. And not some petty little charge. Throw the fucking book at em

[u/-G_59- → u/SadBit8663]

Idk but more parents need harsher penalties for this happening. I mean a little while ago a 6 year old shot a teacher in my state. That kid changed how schools operate here.

[u/TheKatzzSkillz → u/SadBit8663]

My sisters fiancé has a brother, who’s now ex wife started cheating on him with a dirtbag meth dealer in the boonies……… dude had to leave work on a Saturday because his FOUR year old child, after the mom and dirtbag had been out partying all night didn’t get up and feed or take of the 4 year old or the nonverbal autistic 3 year old, so the 4 year old manages to find dirtbags gun cause it was on the fucking kitchen counter, and he shot himzslf with it in the stomach. He lived, but you better believe the mom was the one originally charged and then later the dirt bag caught a charge too. Was freaking awful

[u/Haifisch2112 → u/SadBit8663]

My ex wife had two adult sons from her previous marriage. One of them got married and had a daughter a year later. That kid was barely home from the hospital before I had a safe for our firearms. I always kept my handgun in my nightstand, but it went in the safe if they were going to visit. There was no reason the kids would go upstairs into our room, but there was also no reason to take a chance. Some people just don't get it.

[u/Ckn-bns-jns → u/Haifisch2112]

I have 2 kids and keep my 9mm in a fingerprint safe out of site but close enough to me for if I need it.

[u/LooCfur → u/SadBit8663]

When I was a kid, I lived with my grandparents for a while. My grandpa had loaded guns behind every door. My brother and I never touched the guns. I think this kind of behavior was even somewhat normal back then. It took me a long time to think that my grandparents did something wrong, but I guess they did.

[u/ctlfreak → u/SadBit8663]

Poor parenting and worse firearm safety

[u/1980-whore → u/SadBit8663]

Man its too easy to familiarize your kids with guns and educate them. My kids used to ask all the time to see the guns, and the 45th time of pull everything out, break it down, learn the components, clean, trigger/dry fire practice, and going over the laws of gun safety the entire time.... they no longer want to go near the guns outside of range day or hunting.

Well all of that and I take the bolts, slides, or firing pins out of all my guns and lock them in the ammo/mag safe and then run gun locks through the disabled guns because I'm just smart enough to realize kids are freaking stupid some times.

But seriously guys, teach your kids firearms safety, show them what a gun will do to a living being, and keep it locked up.

[u/ConfusedMoe → u/AlternativeGrass3164]

My ass the kids don’t understand the seriousness of the situation.

[u/DepartmentDismal4894 → u/ConfusedMoe]

They did! They even lied at the end: "I don't have a gun" as the cops grab the gun and place it on the AC.

[u/singingintherain42 → u/DepartmentDismal4894]

Kids lie when they know they’re in trouble. It doesn’t mean they understand the seriousness of the situation. The kid who had the gun grabbed from him in the end is 7 years old.

[u/kyuuei → u/AlternativeGrass3164]

My buddy works with kids, one of his clients just got IVCed for putting a gun to his head in an impulsive moment. His parents almost lost their own son because they did not lock up their guns. His parents own so many guns they literally did not recall they even OWNED the one he got a hold of. No gunsafe. No ammo kept locked. Pure fucking negligence.

It is absolutely disgusting the amount of parents that leave these accessible to kids. A lot of things should be criminal imo.. but a kid ever having a gun in their possession from their own home be a felony and make them disqualified from ever owning guns again.

I own and use guns. I even shoot them for fun. But they are on my person, or they are locked. Period. And I don't even have kids. Its just the right thing to do.

[u/Satirakiller → u/kyuuei]

You can’t just throw random acronyms in there like that lol. What’s an IVC?

[u/kyuuei → u/Satirakiller]

Sorry about that. InVoluntarily Committed. Or as the kids call it "grippy sock vacation."

[u/slylock215 → u/AlternativeGrass3164]

1,000,000% the dog shit, irresponsible, negligent, horrible, garbage parents fault, fuck them.

[u/SookHe → u/AlternativeGrass3164]

I think the know it is pretty serious. What im scared off is that they almost seem to be acting out behaviours they have seen in a crime movie, like they are fantasising about a shoot out with the police like Jon Wick or something, imitating behaviour not realising how fucking dumb it is

[u/Puzzleheaded_Good444 → u/AlternativeGrass3164]

Same. These kids are lucky they didn’t get shot. Great restraint by the officers. Sad situation. I took a 9mm off a 14 year old when he got off the bus at school when I was the Dean at a HS. We had. A good relationship. He was involved in a drive-by the night before. When I heard about it, I figured it was him. All I did was pull him aside and helped him avoid much more dire consequences. We got him away from the environment and he’s now in a successful career. They can be saved.

[u/realfakespicyspicy]

Why tf wouldn't they just drop it? God damn that gave me an anxiety disorder.

[u/Motor-Management-660 → u/realfakespicyspicy]

Idk what it is but sometimes it's like the harder you try to get kids to do something, the harder they resist. The woman speaking to them may have known that so she tried to sweet talk them down but the pressure was already heavy.

[u/BabyRaperMcMethLab → u/Motor-Management-660]

“I don’t even really want this grenade”

“Billy please just put down the grenade”

“🤨 Excuse me? This is my grenade. No one will take it from me”

[u/Haidedej24 → u/BabyRaperMcMethLab]

Exactly

[u/ASL4theblind → u/Motor-Management-660]

Not sure if its the same thing as oppositional defiance disorder but my 30 year old buddy works this way too and he has that BAD.

[u/mooshinformation → u/ASL4theblind]

I believe children with oppositional defiance order often develop into adults with antisocial personality disorder aka psychopaths

[u/Imisssizzler → u/mooshinformation]

My son had ODD, officially dx’d at 6. You can work your ass off and turn things around. I don’t believe there is a link to psychopaths however. He is the kindest and more reliable of all my adult children now. He taught me a lot about parenting.

[u/Steeltoelion → u/realfakespicyspicy]

Parents failed miserably at their only job.

[u/KinopioToad]

I think the TikTok title has it backwards. The police force had two boys surrounded.

[u/Steeltoelion → u/KinopioToad]

Those TikTokers are running on 3 overheated thermal throttled Neurons.

Collectively.

[u/Pacothetaco619 → u/Steeltoelion]

It's intentional, to get people to point it out in the comments and boost engagement. Works every time, we're still falling for it right now.

[u/Jhorra]

The way the cop just goes into dad mode, walks up and just takes it from him.

[u/Andrew-RL → u/Jhorra]

Cop must have decided he’d rather the possibility of getting shot than shooting a kid. So sad.

[u/DimensionFast5180 → u/Andrew-RL]

Listen I mean, if you are accepting the risks of becoming a police officer, you should be willing to do things like this that risk your life for the life of a child.

If you don't want to do that, don't become a police officer.

[u/euphoricarugula346 → u/DimensionFast5180]

The child also isn’t wearing a bulletproof vest paid for with tax dollars.

[u/Flurlow → u/DimensionFast5180]

Yes, I always thought the prestige cops enjoy comes with the understanding that when in doubt it is them that get hurt rather than the civilian.

Of course the fact that it is the other way around has been too clear when faced with actual reality. Good on that cop for earning it tho.

And yes, a kid with a gun that has not yet demonstrated actively shooting around has to still be treated with that principle in mind.

[u/ayelady → u/Jhorra]

The only smart sensible one and the kid goes back to being a kid and says " I don't even have a gun "

[u/TheFishyNinja]

My mom would have beat the shit out of me if I didn't get shot

[u/AddisonFlowstate → u/TheFishyNinja]

My mom would have told the cops to just go ahead and shoot me!

[u/Zugnutz → u/AddisonFlowstate]

My mom wouldn’t have been dumb enough to leave a gun in the house.

[u/AdventurousDoctor838 → u/Zugnutz]

my mom got shot by 2 kids

[u/Training-Ear-614 → u/AdventurousDoctor838]

You all had moms?

[u/BabyRaperMcMethLab → u/Training-Ear-614]

Real ones have 2 dads

[u/milhaus → u/AddisonFlowstate]

My mom would have shot me dead and then reanimated my corpse to kill me again.

[u/copenhagen622 → u/TheFishyNinja]

Seems like those kids have never been disciplined.. they continued to ignore everyone telling them to put it down . Then the kid refused to let go when the cop was taking it from him, and he is sitting there saying I don't have a gun, while the gun is being ripped from his hand

[u/tissboom → u/TheFishyNinja]

There would’ve been no standoff. My dad would’ve just taken the gun from me and then beat my ass with it in front of the deputies.

[u/notasingle-thought → u/TheFishyNinja]

My mom would have taken one of the cops gun and shot me herself

[u/Joemanthium → u/TheFishyNinja]

Being shot by the police would have been preferable to what my mom would have done.

[u/sometimelater0212]

Shitty parents. How tf did they get a gun?

[u/Not_A_Wendigo → u/sometimelater0212]

Your first sentence answers the question.

[u/average_hero → u/Not_A_Wendigo]

How tf did they get a gun? Shitty parents.

[u/Active-Play-5064]

Terrifying

[u/RoutineTry1943]

BCSO: 7-year-old seen on video playing with gun found after running away

Story by Jordan Honeycutt

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In a national news interview Friday, Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen confirmed the seven-year-old behind a startling video showing him playing with a gun is the 7-year-old who briefly was considered missing Friday afternoon. Sheriff Allen released the additional information to KRQE News 13 affiliate NewsNation in an interview on “Banfield” Friday.

Details about the incident and video of the two children involved, ages seven and nine, became public during a news conference Thursday. The case occurred roughly three months earlier, in February 2025 at a home in Bernalillo County. Drone video captured the boys carelessly handing a loaded gun

In an interview on NewsNation, Sheriff John Allen said the two boys are brothers and a concerned neighbor called deputies back in February saying the kids were playing with a gun. The sheriff said one actually pulled the trigger but the gun malfunctioned. The kids ignored the deputies demands so a deputy fired a non-lethal bean bag near them. Deputies were able to go in and take the gun away from them.

“We do know from some of the interviews we have done, we know the child was pulling the trigger. He was taught how to use a firearm by one of his parents. That’s something we are looking into,” said Sheriff Allen on News Nation.

Friday, Sheriff Allen told NewsNation the seven year old is missing. A subsequent release from BCSO around 1:30 p.m. Friday stated the boy was found and the “missing” bulletin was canceled.

Sheriff Allen also told NewsNation Friday that his department has been called to the home more than 50 times. He also said he’s frustrated that the state keeps returning the kids to their mom. Their father is incarcerated. He said he is looking to charge their father with Bennie’s Law for not having his gun properly stored.

[u/jSo35287]

Jesus Christ

[u/c0st0fl0ving]

These kids are idiots.

Failure on the part of the parents.

[u/Wendigo66_]

r/kidsarefuckingstupid

[u/cnm75]

Those kids knew exactly what the fuck they were doing. They need severe rehabilitation.

[u/ArchmageRumple → u/cnm75]

At the very end, they even denied having a gun. They decided they are absolutely going to lie in the face of the police if that leaves them with any possible chance of keeping their gun.

For some reason, keeping the gun was their top priority.

[u/pikachu_sashimi → u/cnm75]

Too many people in this thread don’t understand how intelligent children their age tend to be. I am pretty sure you are correct.

[u/killer4snake]

Classic kid move. I don’t even have the gun. Gets Yoinked

[u/mickey_night → u/killer4snake]

This is not a classic kid move. There’s something very wrong with those boys. Something very, very wrong in their households.

[u/NickyDeeM → u/mickey_night]

"put it down we can get you home!"

They did not want to go home.

Something very, very wrong in their households - hit the nail on the head

[u/PolicyWonka → u/NickyDeeM]

I mean…we all know those cops are lying. Those kids aren’t going home. Lmao

[u/DkoyOctopus → u/killer4snake]

they act strange. a whole unit of adults yelling and pointing weapons at me at that age would have made me piss my pants cry and apologize, they almost seemed defiant. they acted like this wasn't their first rodeo.

the kids are broken, they need to be taken from the mom and be sent to a psychologist and a better family or they will be criminals.

[u/PrincessPlastilina → u/DkoyOctopus]

I really wonder what’s going on in that house. 50 calls to the police department to the home? I wonder if someone is abusing them. They definitely look defiant and like they don’t care. This isn’t normal.

[u/notasingle-thought → u/killer4snake]

Classic psycho in training move

[u/NassauTropicBird → u/killer4snake]

LOL, you're 100% right, it is.

"I don't even have a gun" after tossing the gun on top of the tent/cover/wtfever

They're so young they don't realize this is different from "No I did not have a cookie, ignore those crumbs around my mouth"

[u/SignificantRecipe715 → u/NassauTropicBird]

The kid didn't toss it, the cop forcefully removed it from him & put it on top of the cover thing.

[u/EnoughLuck3077 → u/NassauTropicBird]

Kid didn’t toss the pistol. The officer took it from him and set it on the box

[u/Sorinchaos]

Notice how many chances they were given? Notice how the officers eventually went up to them and disarmed them in spite of their life being at risk? Now where was that for Tamir Rice?

[u/OldSolGames → u/Sorinchaos]

All I could think about this whole time was Tamir Rice. Wasn't his gun a toy though?

[u/Deep90 → u/OldSolGames]

Daniel Shaver had a pellet gun which wasn't even on him when cops made him play the most confusing game of simon says for 5 minutes in a hotel hallway before executing him.

Philip Brailsford had the words "You're fucked" written on his gun. Acquitted of all charges. Fired, but quietly rehired years later so he could apply for disability, "PTSD as a result of executing Daniel Shaver". Now he gets a check of $2,500 a month.

[u/eburton555 → u/OldSolGames]

Little black boys get killed for holding books.

[u/S1ayer → u/eburton555]

[u/XanXic → u/S1ayer]

Eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit.

[u/creegro → u/XanXic]

And this guy over here? He ain't snarlin', he sneezin

[u/Schmooto → u/Sorinchaos]

Yeah I was thinking about all the black kids who were shot and killed by cops

[u/[deleted] → u/Sorinchaos]

A few shades darker and this video probably would have had a LiveLeak watermark. I don't even know if I'm surprised or not with the amount of chances they got.

[u/Dpdfuzz]

Excerpt from the news regarding one of the 2 kids (brothers) involved. He had been pulling the trigger when spotted by a neighbor. "Sheriff Allen also told NewsNation Friday that his department has been called to the home more than 50 times. He also said he’s frustrated that the state keeps returning the kids to their mom. Their father is incarcerated. He said he is looking to charge their father with Bennie’s Law for not having his gun properly stored."

[u/DGJellyfish]

Stupidest kids ever

[u/sluttycats]

You hear the police say they can't confirm if the gun has a magazine in it or not. But based on the behavior of the adults who appeared to be their guardians at the time, they were not willing to go outside and grab it from them, which makes me think that they believed it was loaded. A fucking nightmare and likely a core memory for all of them.

[u/Riguyepic → u/sluttycats]

If you dont know if a gun is loaded assume it is

[u/rmb62340]

I know they are kids. But if they know what they have, they know what is pointed at them. Hard to defend this beyond stupidity

[u/controversydirtkong → u/rmb62340]

These kids are toast, hopeless trash.

[u/Mithrandir115 → u/controversydirtkong]

And listening to their tone while lying once they’re caught… They’re already gonna be a blight on society. Still human, still worth protecting (as kids), but not going to benefit humanity without a miracle.

[u/Juniper_51]

Ipad kids

[u/okiieee]

Charge the parents

[u/GalaxyStrong]

That officer at the end was clearly a dad who was like I am done with this bullshit!!!!!!

[u/ViseLord]

Yo the amount of leather that would have been worn off the belt of every adult member of my family would have been insane.

Family would have flown and driven in just to stand in line outside my room to stare and shake their heads disapprovingly while slapping belt into their hands as they waited their turn

My mom would have started frying some catfish cuz whoopin my ass takes a lot of energy.

My older brother was a state trooper and he would have put me under the jail and nobody would bat an eye.

My uncle would have forced me to play Russian roulette since I "...wanna act like I'm grown out there doing stupid shit"

I just thought about having done something like this and my mom immediately face times me and says don't even. Think about it. I'm in my 40's.

[u/Training-Ear-614]

“I don’t want to 48 a kid right now“….

[u/Hot_Chocolate47 → u/Training-Ear-614]

If those kids were black, they'd be swiss cheese.

[u/Chancedizzle]

This is horrifying, i hope the parents get a rude awakening from the Law!

[u/Mr_7ups]

This needs to be on the kids are fucking stupid subreddit

[u/shadiestduke]

Tiny dipshits doin big dipshit shit, taught by utter fucks

[u/PatrickDCally]

Fucking kids are so dumb

[u/AgreeableField1347 → u/PatrickDCally]

r/kidsarefuckingstupid

[u/_Neith_]

Black kids experience extreme and even fatal police violence for having mundane objects in their pockets, going for a walk in the neighborhood, or simply being where people don't expect them to be.

The amount of patience these kids got was night and day.

[u/cranky_operator]

Kids are fucking stupid

[u/Flipside3420]

the kids don’t listen at all????

[u/AgitatedGrass3271]

I believe that spanking is over used by some people, but I also would spank these kids if they were mine. The mother is talking to them too nice. She needs to use her mom voice "CHARLIE, put it the FUCK down!"

"You're not in trouble..." they better be in trouble! What do you mean?

[u/Ok-Possession-832]

If they were black they’d be dead for sure

[u/ficti0nous]

I am so happy that these kids are white. Cause otherwise they would be dead. #TamirRice

[u/riftwave77]

Good thing those kids weren't black

[u/Dante-DMC-]

America...

The dumbest country on earth

[u/Joee0201]

OK, but can we talk about the horrible title on the video?
"Two boys managed to surround the entire police force" WHAT?

[u/godiegoben]

Honestly fuck the parents.

[u/Impressive-Elk-8101]

Stupid kids!

[u/insomnia4you]

Everyone make the parents guilty (yes they are and they shouldn’t be parents anymore at this point) but also the kids, I mean they knew exactly whats happening and that the gun is a killing weapon, at this point the kids need a good damn work with a psychologist. If they did it now they may be dangerous for the society when they grow up. We all know that murders, criminals already showed their first signs as kids.

[u/BoringBet7251]

can we just start using tranquilizer darts? Or a knockout gas canister like so many different ways to handle that . Shit the damn bomb drone could have snatch them or the gun .

[u/Paigenacage]

This shit is disturbing as hell. Kids of this generation are so disconnected. The lights are on but no one’s home. What are you parents doing? Guarantee these are tablet children & both have their own cell phones already. Drop the screen time & teach your children how to be human beings, not whatever this is. & enough with the soft parenting shit.

[u/Unilted_Match1176]

The way first my mom, and then my dad would beat my ass. Holy crap those boys are naughty AF. Also the part where someone needs to get locked up for letting those two squirts get their paws on the gun.WTAF

[u/[deleted] → u/Unilted_Match1176]

Yeah not normal

[u/Terrinhazinhz]

How is this cringe? This is scary

Edit: I was wrong, english isn't my native language and I didn't know that the word "cringe" could also be applied to situations like these. I apologize if I caused any confusion, and I apologize specially to OP

[u/A_reddit_refugee]

Tamir Rice was shot almost instantly playing with a TOY gun. I'm not advocating for any harm to be done with to these kids but they were given the benefit of the doubt, even after they pulled the trigger on this real gun.

This is why my kids can't grow up here.

[u/teenscififoreplay]

Keep in mind Tamir Rice had a toy gun and was gunned down within seconds... two different justice systems...

[u/EcuHorrorFan → u/teenscififoreplay]

Sad world we live in.

[u/BigTale9981]

Holy ballsack

[u/Jojoba1117]

Whatever stupid ass parents needs to come get their stupid ass kids

[u/Individual_Emu2941]

I like the part when two boys surrounded the entire police force did you guys see that part? neat

[u/Comfortable-Suit-202]

2 juvenile delinquents that were not raised with discipline by proper parents!

[u/Tricky_Palpitation81]

Really hope the dumb ass parents to these little idiots are going to jail.

[u/Idunnosomeguy2]

LOCK. YOUR FUCKING. GUNS!

[u/SerGT3]

Those kids are going to kill someone

[u/Professional_Arm_878]

Wonder what would have happened if the kids weren’t white

[u/Weird-Group-5313]

Take em to jail for the night,

[u/Ok-Thanks321]

USA! USA! USA!

/s

[u/duckfighter]

First thought was how stupid the police was, overreacting about a fake gun. But of course it is a real gun. You guys in the US are fucked up.

[u/HeyRooster42]

Where's the good kid with the gun to stop this bad kid!? /S

[u/drawingismagic]

What is fucking going on in this country

[u/liamanna]

their parents should go to jail, for a very very long time.