DEMONTEZ TREYVON "TREY" ROBINSON (photo courtesy of Hammond Police Department)
A 14-year-old girl is shot and killed in Hammond last night. Investigators say as the girl was sitting in the back seat of a car, 18-year-old Trey Robinson was in the front seat playing with a gun; and when he dropped it, it discharged, striking the girl. Hammond Police Chief Edwin Bergeron Jr. says Robinson is charged with one count of negligent homicide and should never have been handling a gun in the first place.
“The fact that he’s, at 18 years old, carrying a gun around and, willy-nilly, pulling it out and showing it to people and all that, shows that he probably doesn’t have the mental capacity to take on that responsibility,” Bergeron said.
Chief Bergeron says incidents like these are happening with a lot more frequency across the country, and people – especially teens – need to know that guns are not toys.
“The fact that these juveniles think that playing with a gun is a fun thing to do, or it’s a cool thing to do, that’s why you end up in situations like this,” Bergeron explained.
Bergeron says when people, especially teens, are negligent in handling deadly weapons, the consequences will be dire for everyone involved.
“They have no gun safety. They have no true understanding of the impact of a mistake, an error, or just bad judgment, what the long term is,” Bergeron said.
So far, Hammond Police have not released the name of the 14-year-old victim.
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